{"id":2035,"date":"2017-09-18T10:35:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T10:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2017-09-27T23:20:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:20:23","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/2017\/09\/18\/what-if\/","title":{"rendered":"What If??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For our most recent studio project, I\u2019ve been exploring the provocation, \u201cIs iteration a form of ritual?\u201d Through observations and curiosities inspired by \u201cWhat if?\u201d questions, I further conceptualized the provocation and specified my research topic. \u201cWhat if?\u201d questions open up a world of possibilities and help me meditate on ideas that I normally wouldn\u2019t. Additionally, it introduces a sense of play that makes the brainstorming process less solution oriented.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following are a list of my \u201cWhat if?\u201d questions for my recent studio exploration:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What if<\/strong> iteration is a form of ritual?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if<\/b> the iterative process took on the form of affirmations for designer?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if<\/b> the ritualistic form of iterations dissolved established hierarchies?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if\u00a0<\/b>iteration is a form of resistance?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if<\/b> iteration is an ideological tool that works to contain disorder in rituals?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if<\/b> \u201cthe thing\u201d honored natural developmental stages?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if <\/b>\u201cthe thing\u201d helped people share their works in progress and more of their iterative process?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if <\/b>\u201cthe thing\u201d is a ritualistic feedback loop?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if <\/b>\u201cthe thing\u201d challenged traditional iterative cycles?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if <\/b>\u201cthe thing\u201d allowed for individuals and community to enter a \u201cmutually-beneficial and regenerative (positive) feedback loop\u201d where rites of passage are appropriately honored and celebrated?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if <\/b>\u201cthe thing\u201d \u2014 similar to rites of passage \u2014 empowered individuals to be vital forces in the community?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if <\/b>\u201cthe thing\u201d documented the different gestures of your iterative process and provided you with new gestures to try?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if <\/b>\u201cthe thing\u201d was a product or service that helped create new rituals?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if <\/b>\u201cthe thing\u201d is a designed artifact that supported existing rituals?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if<\/b> \u201cthe thing\u201d had a reward system that provided rewards for certain stages of the iterative process?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if <\/b>\u201cthe thing\u201d fostered rhythmical aspects of interaction into a collaborative iterative process (mutual<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>coordination,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>listening<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>reciprocal<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>understanding)?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if <\/b>\u201cthe thing\u201d is a text-based adventure game?<\/li>\n<li><b>What if <\/b>\u201cthe thing\u201d is an epistolary game (game of letters)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if iteration is a form of ritual?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,177,197,198,196],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-now-now","tag-design","tag-design-process","tag-iteration","tag-rites-of-passage","tag-ritual","entry-card--wide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/moshed_2017-8-17_20.59.19.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86O3z-wP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}