ARCHITECTURE
EXHIBITION
ART
ANIMATION
LIFE WRITER
FALL 2022
CORE STUDIO
INSTRUCTOR: CHANDLER AHRENS
The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair showcased groundbreaking innovations, including the Underwood Typewriter, which inspired the creation of a speculative object, the Life Writer. This interactive machine generates and stores film images based on user actions, responding to the non-tactile digital era. Drawing from key features of the typewriter, such as silver keys and black rods, a physical model was created to explore spatial qualities and inspire a factory proposal in Earth City, St. Louis. The factory would produce Life Writers and include a public gallery displaying universal, emotion-driven film images, transcending language barriers through visual storytelling.
Site: St. Louis, USA
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