We had some online meetings with Dave to discuss the development of the project. Most of them consisted of Dave telling us that we were probably quite behind and needed to shoot into action. Which we did know, but again because we did a 180 on our concept, it was hard to know where to start I guess.
I brought up what I had discussed with my astronomy student friend, and presented the options for our planets or moons. We quickly concluded that having the central sphere be a star wouldn’t make sense because our main focus was the tides and that would mean changing our concept once again. It was good to get that out of the way, but it did mean that Yanis and I had to slightly change our perception (no pun intended) of the spheres. Yanis had in the mean time sketched out ideas for each of the three orbiting spheres. We had already discussed wanting to have them all be the same, but thought this might not be the most visually striking. His sketched built off of this and produced three different attributed/concepts for each, which also meant we could be quite creative. With the change to them being classified to moons, we just kept in mind to keep the size of the physical models small enough to justify their “moon status” as it were.
We talked a bit more about the other aspects of the process, like the sound development and interactive aspect of the exhibit; like how people would be encouraged to touch and interact, how we could express these interactions through the sound too, etc.
