Open Questions & Challenges

There are many questions and things to keep in the mind for the future. For example, how can the process be more integrated/streamlined? Are all the parts of the ritual in the box needed? Also, we did attempt to tackle the integration of the box into the urban fabric but an important part would be how does this really fit in? How do you entice people to really enter? Other things to potentially keep in mind is the forgetting that would be occurring- Although the memory is now digitally gone, how does It start to impact the person once deleted? Is the memory really gone? And since one individual remembers, are there actions kept monitored? What if they release the memory verbally?

Reflection

The project was very interesting to undergo, and perceptions of it changed a lot once actually conducting it with the prototype and seeing how people felt and acted with the atmosphere created. One can usually imagine being in the space/experience, but it was very different once it was prototyped 1:1. In terms of fabrication, our group felt that it could be more refined/closer for a future prototype (in order to really see what being in such a box would be like). However, we still feel that the prototype very much helped in getting the experience across. It was also surprising to learn what people would like to forget in their memory, the feelings associated with those moments, and also how people feel/value the act of forgetting.