What happens if I give my interaction design students a box packed with different materials and challenge them to design a space that is better suited to their creative collaboration?
To elicit inspirational ideas about what a creative space could (or should) bring them I designed a probe called 📦 The Box. Each of the four students who participated in this part of the design-probe study received a box (artefact) with craft tools and materials such as styrofoam, cardboard, foam, cork, play-doh and even reindeer moss. The (empty) box is meant to be their canvas and everything in it can be used to design the space. A more detailed description and substantiation of this probe can be found in the post ‘Design Probes & Living Atlas’. After collecting their prototypes and pitch videos I edited the material to be able to present their spaces in a similar way. Spinning the prototype helps show every aspect of the space, while audio clips from the pitch video provide explanations.
These are the spaces they came up with: