Week 11

Greetings from the Walk of Fame squad! This week we put our heads together to determine how our second celebrity, Rachel Carson, should be represented. Our initial design was to have a before/after interactive contrast which helps convey the impact of Carson’s book Silent Spring. The book describes the dangerous effects of DDT, and our paper prototype emphasised that by having a draggable airplane that when passes over the scenery, changes it negatively. The change reflects the real world impacts on the biome, marine life and plants of DDT. After having a lukewarm playtest reaction, we redesigned it to make it more simpler and more personal to Rachel Carson. We redid this by recreating her work desk, littered with objects of significance from her life, which included her book,personal letters and her presidential medal of freedom. Shown below is the same.

We also got started on our plans for celebrity number 3, Roberto Clemente. To aid with research, we scheduled an appointment with the Roberto Clemente museum and went together as a team for the tour. We learnt a lot about the life of Clemente, something that one wouldn’t find so easily on a search engine. We noted down a lot of information that we learnt and next week we’ll be deciding how to put it together for the app. For those of you haven’t visited the museum, it is a must see!

In other news, we had our ETC first years visit us to shadow our project. It is an huge learning opportunity for them and also a good chance for us to showcase our project internally.

See you next week then!