MICRO | 04

 

BRIEF : Design a way to materialise the blockchain.

WEEK 4

This week started with two headlines

  • Process the survey (synthesis);

  • Resolve the “proof-of-human” and “uniqueness” in some way.

For Synthesis our understanding after few trips to brixton, we started collaboration on micro board and jotted down the points on each subject like Food, street style, diversity, culture hybridity, change of brixton. As we mapped everything out which you can see below, we came up with five main thoughts over it :

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4. Unique characters

5. Friendly faces

6. Different music tastes

1. Willingness to participate

2. Cultural pride

3. Storytelling

 

Primarily, Brixton is a cultural melting pot of food, languages, music and atmosphere. When reviewing everything, a few points stood out to us - especially music. David Bowie was born here; they have Caribbean music playing on all the street corners, the reggae man proud of his radio station and the summer music festivals.

For thinking about a situation where blockchain technology can exist, we started thinking from the frame of an event happening at Brixton. We looked at the event which is named Cross The Tracks - Brixton's Soul, Jazz & Funk Feast.  

On a group call, we discussed how can we bring multicultural + humanly values together to create a system that can be recorded in the blockchain. For the same discussion, we started brainstorming on technologies that could be useful for building interaction between two or more people in a friendly way. Gab mentioned what we discussed with the TARR team about a card recording sound. We started on thinking of what if we hi-fi with cards and exchange (something).

Imagery : Visualisation of blockchain with keeping sound as ledger.

Done by Manali


But before seeing the technology, what I questioned is about the purpose of the card! is it giving any recall value or access to a music festival? 

Making sound a ledger was interesting, and that could only be if it's a unique sound and after you upload it through a device you are in a network. 

Incorporating blockchain is like incorporating different roadways with which are being tracked and joined with each one of them, imagining it like a 'spider web'.

As we were proceeding we again started with our brief of materializing the blockchain, what that meant for me was to build a system where blockchain is visible in reality to incorporate the technology. Therefore we started thinking of the physicality of the concept, after giving many vague ideas, different values of culture from different subjects like, what if dance? what if food? what if only music?




With the continuous thoughtfulness of blockchains in our brain, we settled on building a networked event named 

Cultural Music Mashup 

Who is this for? 

People who will be going to the Music festival - cross the tracks in Brixton this summer. Every individual can create a new music mashup with people you meet.

Tool for connecting with people to build mashup is your ''ID Card''

 

As we were developing this concept we immediately tried testing and getting the opinions of our colleagues. After testing with peers, we pointed out the factors which need consideration.

  • Why is remixing the songs we like counted as cultural hybridity?

  • What about Brixton? what is special about Brixton? Could we have our focus on the music cultures inside Brixton?

After testing the initial concept we were contemplating how to move further. We brought our thoughts to a Better sense of Brixton! Reggae? Soul? Jazz? Funk? Directing on what belongs to Brixton.

We ended our week with more things to solve/rethink

  • What is exchanging?MUSIC?SONGS?

  • Why people want to know about (validate) the transaction?

  • What are the final outcomes of the transactions? How is it visible?


Feedback from Mid Point Review

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We presented our work to our collaborators and our faculty. Feedback was very helpful for us to make progress in the next stage. Charlie and Clive mentioned about the stages which would come after a mashup of song, Dr John Fass mentioned us to relate back to the idea of blockchain in a more apparent way. They suggested having a user flow and perform actual testing of music.



 

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