Overtime, the significance of taking care of our planet for ourselves and the generations after us has become more and more important to me. I’ve realized a lot about the damage we’re creating by living on Earth and the impact it has on us and the other species that live on this planet. I value the life I have and the planet we live on, and my goal for this project is to demonstrate the importance of taking care of it. With this project I want to communicate to my audience and connect with them on a deeper level. This project can relate to every single person in one way or another, and I hope to bring out that realization through projection mapping. Though this doesn’t reflect my future aspirations, it’s important to me and will hopefully make a difference to a few peoples everyday lives. The interest in my project should be high because this issue effects everyone whether they know it or not. Even if some people believe that nothing can happen during their life time, they have to recognize their future children or family members will be impacted by the way we leave it.
My project will be different that existing projects because it will be an interactive exhibit. Instead of reading about the causes and effects of recycling, you’ll be able to view it on a sphere shaped object that will represent the globe. You’ll also be able to feel the heat from a heat lamp that demonstrates the heating of the Earth, and see produced trash on the ground.
I envision an open room with a giant sphere (around 7ft x 7ft) hanging from the ceiling with trash on the floor underneath it in a circular shape, and a heat lamp in one of the corners. I want the earth to be projected on the sphere with statistics and data visuals interchanging. On one wall, I want to possibly have time lapses going for different representations of land that now has piles of waste on it. On the other two sides I want to have options 1 and 2 for which direction we can go with if we chose to recycle or not. On the last wall I want to represent how this is effecting our animals and wildlife on Earth, and how it can affect the future of our families and generations.