A love letter to the first Thursdays of the month in Seattle: you give me life throughout the winter. Mwah.
Between all the art museums being free to browse, Pioneer Square Art Walk, and a well-timed warehouse sale of some of the most haute brands of the West Coast, the week was deliciously full of inspiration.
Following a talk by brand experience designers, I'm noticing more about these in-person events—the nexuses that we lost to covid for a solid few years. A few things that make live experiences special and engaging for me:
• a defined audience
• infrastructure for mingling
• an aspect of tangibility, something to physically do or touch or engage with
• details that unite a space and add intentionality
To create an experience that promotes Seattle Central College as the hub for arts in Seattle, I'm pitching a series of interactive art installations around the Broadway block of campus. These will both show off student work and challenge passerby to engage with their own creativity. Some examples: a lo-fi photo booth, an ad-lib poem printer (like the one inside SPL's Central Library), a poster display that viewers scan to see which tools were used in the construction of each, and a mural with moving digital components that come to life when viewers scan with a QR code.
