One of the goals of our website, which we plan to create via the digital platform, WordPress, is to create easy navigation of a 3-D model of the Tesse Room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European Sculptures and Decorative Arts Collection for the viewer. We would like for our audience to be able to select aspects of the room, such as various objects, textiles and individuals, and be able to get a closer, more intimate understanding of the room’s history and usage. We plan to do this using annotated notes which the viewer can access through clicking on an object, for example. One of my roles in this project is as a researcher, particularly honing in on the role and presence of servants in this space, and thus I will be able to assist in creating the content for these annotations. In the end, one of the end goals for this website is to enable viewers to be able to take away a new understanding of how these rooms were used, and seeing that, in essence, that might have depended on the day, time of day, season and the specific users of the room at a given time.
Uses of Space: Spec Requirements and My Contribution
My particular job in our group is to provide an authentic look on how servants interacted with this space, and more generally, spaces like this.
While I have a basic understanding of how to use digital resources like PhotoShop and Rhino, resources we will most likely be using in our particular project — I plan on developing skills in both by the end of the project. Both Jordan and I have overlapping roles, as we both will be Web Designers and Editors. We hope to use our particular strengths – Jordan’s experience with some web and interior design and blogging and my fashion design and visual arts background – to collaborate. As the project goes on, we plan to define these roles, and our particular contribution to them. But, in the beginning, we foresee a lot of overlap.
As I explained in my project proposal, perhaps the room and all the furniture and objects within it were re-configured for a particular event which would require servants to participate in the transformation of these types of rooms. Or, perhaps the room was occupied by servants fairly regularly and at the same time of day each day. These are questions that my research aims to answer, and I hope that in the end, a viewer will walk away with an understanding that, though probably seen and not heard, these people — servants — had an active presence in these types of spaces and are worth remembering.