pigmento, master thesis at Venice IUAV University

this is the work done by Giuseppe Burdo with the help of few friends including Daniele Muscella, Francesco Saccone, Luca Mancini.

Most videos are freely visible on https://vimeo.com/maisongb/videos

the full thesis is freely readable here (italian only)
http://issuu.com/giuseppe_burdo/docs/pigmento

and an interactive presentation with videos is available by request.
This work has been further developed and featured in several exhibitions around Italy.
Check more on
http://maisongb.com
http://pi.gmen.to

Transcript

1. pigmento
2. cos’è pigmento is a learning experience which allow kids to play and to understand on the subtractive synthesis color
3. research
4. educational innovations the Munari approach kids like to make things in a free way so they learn and practice on tecniques and materials Munari was one of the first educator who use to have a “studio” for kids 1950
5. The canadian programme “learning through di arts” aims to teach any subject basics through a free approach. There are already great results. - - educatioal innovations learning through the Arts 1950 1990
6. the colour topic one of the first educational experiences is about the colour. primary school Museo Sturm, Bassano Del Grappa
7. educational opportunities often the approach is just aesthetical basedand the question “why does it work in this way” is not always answered
8. interdisciplinarity color let people recognize what’s going on
9. interdisciplinarity the color naming is often hard that’s way there are several scales
10. at school sometimes there is a need to know the result through the process Today there isn’t a software which allow people to simulate - the combination of colors based on quantities, but just qualities
11. learning as experience if the screen let people know more details, the physical interface can give a stronger feeling the interdisciplinarity of colors deserves a free approach
12. the result whitin the process the making can be a way to learn “learning by doing” the aim is to find a feeling among the rainassance crafting and a pleasent learning, potentially simolous for a further study - -
13. design
14. the interface granes let kids free to play and discover. This suits perfectly for pigments -
15. the material pigments once mixed, they can’t be splitted again - - color is a psicofisic quality. This truth - let then choose to videoproject over the salt
16. why the salt salt and pigments share the same mineral origin, a variable morphology and both had a very important role in the past Also, it is not dangerous if eaten
18. π / 2 1π / 10 9 π / 10 13 π / 10 17 π / 10 ∆c < r MIX color filling salt detection light color projection
19. every material has its own cromatic based on the surface, place, observer, etc. - color design
20. color design the new is to get the subtractive synthesis through the light, which is usually used for the additive one - this leads to design the gamut also based on the “salt ” material
21. color design filling color techniques can be: uniform real synthesis not uniform apparent synthesis
22. prototyping
23. prototyping has often given the chance to redesign the interactive table and the overall experience
24. the skeleton modular and easy to build with some solution in order to use a common videoprojector
25. programming Arduino for leds setting Processing for the elaboration OpenCV libriry for the vision elaboration
26. user testing
27. Clara, 7 yrs wihout any previous color study Isotta, 9 yrs Marina, 9 yrs elementary knowledge user testing
28. while at the borders there are the primary colors, over the centre it is possible to get the derivate color
29. the possible behaviours can be many thanks to the granular material and kids have shown a playful feedback and learning
30. the granularity makes kids free to express personal stories and something about their personality
31. interest in the scientific context (public conference and pubblication) exhibit in the next Science Festival in Genova, Italy great feeling among the users Results
32. thanks