Week 1: Co-Creative practice

This module has set us a theme with which to start our creative practice, generate ideas and work together on a unified project. The theme was randomly generated and therefore could have been as limited or random as the three words allowed. However, the words draw work well together and instantly started my creative thoughts flowing.

These are my first ideas for the app jam that we were subsequently set in week 2.

Withdraw

Retreat, Renounce, Remove, Shy, Quiet, Extract, Abolish, Take away, Dissolution, Renounce, Cancel, Terminate, Recession, Back-down, U-Turn, Retire, Disconnection, Separation.

Police

Govern, Law and Order, Control, Regulate, Oversee, Implement, Regulate, Supervise, Monitor, Guard, Protect, Defend, Peace, Authority, Enforce, Patrol.

Difficult

Demanding, Strenuous, Arduous, Burden, Inconvenient, Archaic, Tough, Problematic, Unfathomable, Formidable, Dispute, Confronting, Imposing, Unalterable, Stubborn, Uncooperative, Puzzling, Baffling

Initial ideas:

The combination of these three words creates a fascinating amount of possibilities for the theme of this app jam. My initial thought was an app that gives power to the public (users) to better police/regulate/govern their lives, community etc. This task is usually difficult and inconvenient but could be made easier with an app. This could also tie in nicely with the use of locative apps or AR by either placing the user in a setting/experience our allowing them to GPS tag problematic areas or situation. Below are a few initial ideas that may be interesting to progress.

Idea 1: 

An app to highlight bad sustainable practices in shops, supermarkets etc. The user photographs and tags products that are unsustainable, use excess plastic or cannot be recycled to lobby the government to make changes. 

Idea 2: 

Users group together to collect resources (GPS tagging, photographs, videos etc) to present to council about problems and issues in their community. This can be used to promote change and fix real problems.

Idea 3:

App pairs with wearables to create a customisable alert that is triggered by your wearable or phone.You can set specific alerts, functions etc if you get in trouble, if you have an emergency etc. GPS location is always viewable for certain individuals.  Have a serious medical condition, then you can create an alert for a family member. Take part in extreme or dangerous sports then have this send messages to family and contact emergency services. 

These are just a few ideas that I thought of immediately and over the next week days more ideas started to form.