UN/RE/MAKE– or, rather, my capstone as a whole– began as a collection of the things I cared about, loved, and spent a lot of time thinking about. For a month, I carried a small notebook in my pocket to record these things free of any particular type of project, end goal, or ranking.

At the end of that month, I wrote each of those notes out on a scrap of paper and spent a few evenings doing affinity mapping exercises– sorting them into sets based on different criteria and relationships. Through these exercises, I was able to identify a few key concepts that I found important enough to focus a project on: impermanence, change, relationship between past and present, and manipulation of purpose.

February 17 & 29

The animation here combines my UN experiment and its subsequent RE, where I dissected a keyboard and then, by increasing its height, turned it into a succulent planter.

The book

Finally, I designed a book to display my process and experiments. Although printing and binding the book was out of scope for this project, you can see my sketches for the form and function if it were to become a physical object.

Materials

Electronics; books; apparel; household supplies; tools; craft materials; homework; plants

Sources

Friends; faculty; small electronics recycling; free shelves/bins; retail stores; dumpsters

Analog approach

Physical creative processes including bookbinding, fiber arts, painting, etc; sketching; ideation & concept development

Digital approach

Custom lettering; photography & photo editing; book layout & design