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	<title>Mari Nakano</title>
	<link>http://marinakano.com</link>
	<description>Mari Nakano</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 05:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Women are the Fabric Exhibition</title>
				
		<link>http://marinakano.com/Women-are-the-Fabric-Exhibition</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 05:30:42 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mari Nakano</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations Population Fund, Advocacy Project, quilts, New York, Whitney Kidder, exhibition design, typography]]></category>

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		<description>Exhibition design for The United Nations Population Fund. 
Exhibited at United Nations Visitors Center
New York, NY (2012, March 8–April 30) 
(special thanks to Haelim Paek)
All photos taken by Whitney Kidder. 

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posted originally by The Advocacy Project</description>
		
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		<title>PHOTOGRAPHY</title>
				
		<link>http://marinakano.com/PHOTOGRAPHY</link>

		<comments>http://marinakano.com/following/marinakano.com/PHOTOGRAPHY</comments>

		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:46:56 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mari Nakano</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[photography, hobby, everyday]]></category>

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		<description>Drips, cracks &#38; shade
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The East
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The West
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BW
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		<title>Hope for Japan</title>
				
		<link>http://marinakano.com/Hope-for-Japan</link>

		<comments>http://marinakano.com/following/marinakano.com/Hope-for-Japan</comments>

		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:51:02 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mari Nakano</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[linocut, linoprint, japan, earthquake, handmade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">2182481</guid>

		<description>Handmade postcards to raise money for Japan earthquake relief (March 11, 2011)
Limited edition of 450 prints, individually handmade linoprints with crepe paper

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		<title>Text Wall</title>
				
		<link>http://marinakano.com/Text-Wall</link>

		<comments>http://marinakano.com/following/marinakano.com/Text-Wall</comments>

		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:33:55 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mari Nakano</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[streaming media, twitter, interactive, design research]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">241333</guid>

		<description>A design research project: Real-time streaming media in the domestic sphere.
(collaboration with Luke Johnson, Mia Case, Julia Tsao)

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What if we could design a space that could collect and display thoughts, messages and micro–stories within a family? What would that space look like and how could it function efficiently? At first, I was curious to know where and how people confess their thoughts. Confessional booths, holes in ancient ruins, hollow tree trunks, private journals...

With those ideas as a starting point, my colleagues and I wondered how we could provide a safe space for families to project messages and thoughts not normally spoken. By creating a new space for conversation using the affordances of streaming media, how would that change the family dynamic? What new conversations or realizations would emerge?

After many iterations, we came up with a prototype device dubbed the Text Wall. The Text Wall served as a family message board for mobile text messages. Family members' cell phones were hooked up to Twitter (a mobile text messaging system), and any text sent to an assigned number would appear projected on a designated wall space in a common area of the home.

The text wall was a research experiment that provided us with two main insights:
1. It helped us define and expand the definition and functions of streaming media.
2. It helped us understand both existing and newly formed conversation dynamics amongst family members.

The main questions that arose for the text wall were:
1. If you change who is empowered to lead family conversation, how does this change the family dynamic and discussion space?
2. How does a public space faciliate unspoken conversations within families?
3. What are the perceptions of a traditional shared space and how do these perceptions change with the addition of an activity such as the text wall?
4. What types of connections will families make between texts? Will this create multiple narratives and multiple interpretations of the information of will it create self-reflection?
5. How can designers create alternative family portraits using data driven and created by the user?
6. If you change conversation, will you change the family dynamic? And if you change the family dynamic, is there an opportunity space that can foster new and developing relationships between family members?

There were several successful outcomes we discovered from the text wall. It became...
- A space of public journaling
- A space for storytelling
- A space to exchange dialog 
- A space which could unveil and highlight personalities

Most interesting highlights:
- The families ended-up personifying the wall, naming it "Wall-e" or "Wally."
- Family members continued to text even after we removed the installation from their homes.

Time lapse: Text Wall prototype

(posted courtesy Luke Johnson)

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		<title>If Walls Could Talk &#38; Future Wall</title>
				
		<link>http://marinakano.com/If-Walls-Could-Talk-Future-Wall</link>

		<comments>http://marinakano.com/following/marinakano.com/If-Walls-Could-Talk-Future-Wall</comments>

		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:33:46 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mari Nakano</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[talking wall, light sensors, interactive objects and spaces]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">241312</guid>

		<description>Interactive prototypes using photocells and audio interviews
&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/10913/241312/ios1_intro.jpg" width="600" height="381" width_o="600" height_o="381" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/10913/241312/ios1_intro_o.jpg" data-mid="1029401"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;
About If Walls Could Talk
What if walls could really hear what you're saying? If Walls Could Talk is an interactive experience that demonstrates how the infrastructure around us, namely walls, are listening, absorbing and remembering what they hear. By interacting with a wall and trying to, in a sense, channel what the walls have absorbed, we can recover soundbites of the moments that may have occurred around that space. What have the walls around us heard? What secrets, abrupt moments or unspoken ideas do they absorb? And what are they willing to tell us if only we pay attention? If Walls Could Talk captures some of the secrets, desires and normally unspoken opinions of various characters. By coming close to it with a wave of your hand or just the closeness of your presence, the wall will playback what it's heard.




How it Worked
Light sensors were embedded in 3/4" foam core and then covered over with a layer of coated paper. If enough light was blocked out over a light sensor, the sensor would trigger on a loop of soundbites. There were six sensors embedded in the wall and all could be activated at the same time. 

&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/10913/241312/ios1_sketch_1.jpg" width="600" height="407" width_o="600" height_o="407" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/10913/241312/ios1_sketch_1_o.jpg" data-mid="1033780"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;

Analysis
The prototype went well for several reasons:
- It was capable of working with multiple users.
- It provided an opportunity or an overlay of sounds and voices
- The "blank" design opened up pathways for other ideas using the concept of a talking wall.
- Unintended interactions happened between users. People were generally polite, stepping back and allowing other users to listen to their "found" soundbites.
- Users could search around the wall for soundbites or just stay and listen to one area.

Potentialities
- Design it so people can add their own content to the wall. If it were to become a confessional space, how could we design it so people could enter their own voice that could be immediately added to the wall?
- Think about how this wall could exist in other contexts: For example, what if this were a memorial wall? 
- How would this wall work if it were much larger? What if you were to put it down a long stretch of hallway?

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About Future Wall
Future Wall is an expansion of the midterm prototype If Walls Could Talk. Future Wall is an interactive blank canvas that plays back people's ideas, personal predictions, hopes, desires and messages for the future. It contains a mix of the serious and the whimsical, the bleak and the beautiful, the ridiculous to the practical. By waving your hands over the wall, or simply by walking close enough to it, participants can trigger one or more soundbites and listen to the nearly 100 voices on the wall.

Listen to just a few of the future wall soundbites below:
The future looks bleak:
alt : http://www.marinakano.com/sound/bleak.mp3
Exercise:
alt : http://www.marinakano.com/sound/exercise.mp3
Sharing art:
alt : http://www.marinakano.com/sound/sharingart.mp3
Mass confusion:
alt : http://wwww.marinakano.com/sound/massconfusion.mp3
How can you know:
alt : http://www.marinakano.com/sound/howcanyouknow.mp3
Telepathic:
alt : http://www.marinakano.com/sound/telepathic.mp3


How it Worked
Light sensors were embedded in 3/4" foam core and then covered over with a layer of coated paper and fabric. If enough light was blocked out over a light sensor, the sensor would trigger on one sound bite that would channel through one of the designated speakers. The intent was to have the triggered sound bite to be near the designated speaker. There were fourteen sensors embedded in the wall and all could be activated at the same time. Facilities kindly drilled a 2 inch hole in the wall that led into the studio. This is where I strung on the wiring through so no one could see how the wall worked. I had to make sure I labeled everything meticulously because once the wall was up, I couldn't adjust the speakers or sensors anymore. 

&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/10913/241312/futurewall_sketch1_1.jpg" width="600" height="464" width_o="600" height_o="464" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/10913/241312/futurewall_sketch1_1_o.jpg" data-mid="1033814"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;
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Analysis
The wall was successful in that it provided a very content driven experience. Because it was substantially larger, more people could interact with it as well as make larger gestures or movements not made in the smaller prototype. Unlike the previous wall prototype, If Walls Could Talk, a sound bite would play through its entirety rather than turn off and on abruptly. Future Wall was also a great experience for me, in that I was able to interview both friends and strangers who all had something different to say about the future. To be able to listen to nearly 40 different people's outlooks on life was an experience in itself and something truly enjoyable and somewhat unexpected.

Potentialities
Future Wall, I believe, has the potential to exist in various settings. It's currently a very content driven piece which needs a lot of fine tuning, but with the right aesthetics and if the content is relevant to the space in which it exists, I think the idea of the Future Wall can exist in various types of public settings. Also, the form of it is definitely open for change. The idea isn't so much that something like this has to exist in a wall, but that it can be embedded in a common object that's not normally seen as an object with a personality, behavior or function.



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		<title>Congo/Women </title>
				
		<link>http://marinakano.com/Congo-Women</link>

		<comments>http://marinakano.com/following/marinakano.com/Congo-Women</comments>

		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:54:13 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mari Nakano</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[congo, women, artworks projects, nobel peace center, oslo, motion graphics]]></category>

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		<description>The Congo/Women exhibition images were projected on the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway in honor of Mother's Day. It features the work of VII photographers Lynsey Addario, Marcus Bleasdale, Ron Haviv, and James Nachtwey.


Congo/Women on the Nobel Peace Center from ART WORKS Projects on Vimeo

Music by Siblings Music
Mario Grigorov / Creative Director
Pamelia Kurstin / Theramin
Rubin Kodheli / Cello
Jaron Lanier / Duduk
Sussan Deyhim / Vocals
JM Jacob / Editor
Mari Nakano / Titles

Congo/Women is co-produced by ART WORKS Projects and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media Columbia College Chicago. Major support has been provided by UNFPA, Humanity United, the Oak Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.</description>
		
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		<title>Hanamatsuri 2011</title>
				
		<link>http://marinakano.com/Hanamatsuri-2011</link>

		<comments>http://marinakano.com/following/marinakano.com/Hanamatsuri-2011</comments>

		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:20:03 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mari Nakano</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[hanamatsuri, higashi honganji, buddha]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">1664836</guid>

		<description>Poster design for the 2011 Higashi Honganji Hanamatsuri Festival
designed for Higashi Honganji Temple

&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/10913/1664836/hanamatsuri-poster-2011.jpg" width="518" height="800" width_o="518" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/10913/1664836/hanamatsuri-poster-2011_o.jpg" data-mid="8169058"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
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		<title>Higashi Honganji Obon 2011</title>
				
		<link>http://marinakano.com/Higashi-Honganji-Obon-2011</link>

		<comments>http://marinakano.com/following/marinakano.com/Higashi-Honganji-Obon-2011</comments>

		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:02:09 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mari Nakano</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[higashi honganji, obon, poster, taiko]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">1664764</guid>

		<description>Poster design for the 2011 Higashi Honganji Obon Festival
designed for Higashi Honganji Temple

&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/10913/1664764/obon-poster-2011.jpg" width="518" height="800" width_o="518" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/10913/1664764/obon-poster-2011_o.jpg" data-mid="8169048"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
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		<title>UNFPA Mission Statement</title>
				
		<link>http://marinakano.com/UNFPA-Mission-Statement</link>

		<comments>http://marinakano.com/following/marinakano.com/UNFPA-Mission-Statement</comments>

		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:26:25 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mari Nakano</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[UNFPA, mission statement, motion graphic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">484923</guid>

		<description>designed for The United Nations Population Fund
(a collaboration with Ping Tsung Li &#38; Yuseung Kim)

</description>
		
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		<title>Invest in Women, It Pays</title>
				
		<link>http://marinakano.com/Invest-in-Women-It-Pays</link>

		<comments>http://marinakano.com/following/marinakano.com/Invest-in-Women-It-Pays</comments>

		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:50:59 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mari Nakano</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[women deliver, UNFPA, motion graphic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">484918</guid>

		<description>designed for The United Nations Population Fund &#38; Women Deliver
(a collaboration with Ping Tsung Li)

</description>
		
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