I am going to serve as the web developer for the Materials and their Makers group. My role is to write and edit the code our website, while striving for a user friendly experience and anticipating the needs of our user. I will be working closely with the web designer in […]
Tessé Room, Wrightsman Galleries – The Space and Its Users Suggested Spec Requirements: [These were created by aggregating the suggested spec requirements and involvement of each team member, but will be subject to slight changes] Platform: WordPress [These are the themes that we will be deciding between in […]
Project Role I am the Web Designer for the Materials and their Makers groups. My role is to develop the aesthetic experience of our group’s webpages. My goal is to make the design as simple as possible, in keeping with the larger group goal of maintaining a user-friendly interface. I […]
Materials & Makers, as a group, has a collaborative Prezi where we have and will continue to edit(ed) a skeleton for our project goals, individual roles, and tasks we will take on. Above is a screen shot of my ‘profile’ on our Prezi. My role is Project Manager, whereby […]
We recently broke down our roles within our team. We organised ourselves as follows: Project manager: Samina (me) Web developer: Jake Copy Editors / User Experience Designers: Heather / Jordan With these roles as well as our personal projects in mind, we discussed how we wanted to divide our time. […]
By using WordPress, the group will identify a theme by CSS editor and input their information relating to their topic. I will be the Project Manager, my role will be planning and defining scope of the project, develop schedules, estimating time for the project, managing risks and issues evolving the […]
1. What major historical point does your project make? I am interested in intellectual property and its dispersion. The idea of sharing information with the masses first emerged in the Enlightenment era, and now in the Information age, we have an extraordinary ability to continue this ambition. Specifically, I see […]
As a graduate student digital fellow for A Virtual Enlightenment, I will be assisting students who are working on the Uses of Space project. The seminar’s approach to the Tessé room in the Metropolitan Museum as a space where bodies moved–both laboring bodies and bodies that resided in the Hôtel–is […]
I will be working in a group focused on recontextualizing and bringing life to the Met’s exquisite secrétaire and commode commissioned by Marie Antoinette. Our goal is to highlight both the form and function of these lacquer furniture pieces, exploring their materiality, modes of production, daily functionality, and sentimental value. My personal […]
Alexander Lange said it well in the New Yorker when she addressed how The Cooper Hewitt had taken time to make its ornate rooms “sing”. We as a class will make the Met’s new digital approach sing. We will keep the aesthetic and grandiose accents of the Met but propose […]
