Designers: Alex Newson, Sebastian Ervi Stage of the project: Evaluation and refinement Last week, we validated the core concept of our prototype. We now wanted to iterate on it in a way to sustain connection between artist and audience throughout the whole concert experience. Preparing the prototype To iterate on last week, we…

Designers: Alex Newson, Sebastian Ervi Stage of the project: Concept evaluation Experiments from last week allowed us to define how producing collective activities and challenging power dynamics seem to play a great role in facilitating cohesion between people at concerts. …

Designers: Alex Newson, Sebastian Ervi Stage of the project: Concept generation and evaluation After an incomplete workshop and inconclusive trains of thoughts, I suggested to get making something, trying out and learning that way. So we put up a concert! The workshop We wanted to experiment with various ideas, to explore ways…

Designers: Alex Newson, Sebastian Ervi Stage of the project: Project definition/Generative ideation Now that our research has given us leads for the rest of the project, we felt confident enough to start generating design ideas. …

Designers: Alex Newson, Sebastian Ervi Stage of the project: Research synthesis After having transcribed the interviews and filled the AEIOU tables for each concert, it was time to analyse and draw research findings from the concerts we attended. Analysis Between September 2021 and October 2021, Alex and I attended 5 concerts…

Designers: Alex Newson, Sebastian Ervi Stage of the project: Primary research Finally! After having spent the summer in abroad, concerts began to happen again in London following the lift of restrictions. …

Designers: Alex Newson, Sebastian Ervi Stage of the project: Exploratory research While in Finland during the summer, I got the opportunity to attend a music festival as a photographer. I took advantage of my free time during the day to research for the project at the same time. My first…

Designers: Alex Newson, Sebastian Ervi Stage of the project: Exploratory research In order to better know what should be designed, I got the idea of inviting industry insiders to discuss about what future concerts might look like, and if these speculated concerts are plausible or not, and preferable or not…

Designers: Alex Newson, Sebastian Ervi Stage of the project: Exploratory research Restrictions were still in place during the first weeks of the project. …