Community / Embodiment
Masters Thesis Project
By focusing on boundary spaces and the appealing aspects of existing community spaces I will design an artifact which increases feelings of community at CMU. Beyond collaborative work, I am examining spontaneous interaction and exploration within the CMU student community.
Based on interviews with students and observations of the campus community I have identified the CMU Fence as an example of a physical location building a greater sense of a CMU-wide community. From this I have identified four major themes:
- Location
- Openness
- Ownership
- Ritual
I developed concepts around these themes to answer the question: What can be learned from the Fence and applied in a manner that allows a greater number of participants and addresses the changing nature of CMU?
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Advisor: Jodi Forlizzi