Monumentally+VR

=** Monumentally VR **=

A monument reminds. Its location, form, site design and inscriptions aid the recall of persons, things, events or values.--In recent decades, counter-monuments have emerged as a new, critical mode of commemorative practice. Even as such practice defines itself by its opposition to traditional monumentality, it has helped to reinvigorate public and professional interest in commemorative activities and landscapes and has developed its own, new conventions. From Counter-monuments: the anti- monumental and the dialogic.

In this project you will design and build a 3D model of a counter-monument. Your monument must be located on the National Mall in D.C. Your monument will be virtual, so it may contain both realistic and fantastical or physically impossible elements.

Questions:
What is this a monument to? Event? Person? Object? Situation? Would this make a plausible real monument, or could it ( and should it) only exist virtually? What is it made of? Where is it located? (specifically!) How does it change as you move around it? How would the visitor interact, or not interact, with it? Does it recontextualize the things around it? How different would it be in another location? Would passers-by recognize your project as a monument?

In addition to the actual Sketch Up project file, you will create a series of support materials.


 * 1) Series of 5 sketches and a description of your proposed project
 * 2) 2 composite photos showing a rendering of your project on site.
 * 3) A wiki page that collects and presents your project and the supporting materials.

Note: All three elements figure in to the final project grade.



Timeline:
March 29- Intro to project, hand out readings, home work- 3 sketches/ideas

April 5 Intro to Sketch-up, export and composite with Photoshop, work day, 1 on 1 discussion of ideas, and reading discussion **DUE: 3 sketches and ideas, image of site, reading response posted to wiki.**

April 12 Continuing sketch-up, Intro to VR Elements

April 19 Printing posters, Work Day, VR Testing

April 23- Presentation of projects at TedX

April 26 Exam- presentation of Projects, Test

Examples:

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Examples of proposal images and sketches:















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