Final Proposal -change of metaphore

Topic: Water

Title: In The Pail

Background:

'Freshwater is perhaps the most crucial resource for humans and all other living creatures on earth. Our life revolves around water, and sufficient clean water is essential for our healthy living as well as the health of the environment.' (WWF-Malaysia,2009).

Problem Identification:

people dont know about water source in malaysia. Malaysian has the typical lackadaisical attitude towards environmental issues. Most Malaysians are not aware of our current water issue. They still think that We are so Rich in Water source and we can continue using fresh water as always.

Objective:

To learn about different water resources in Malaysia

To identify sounds of water

To experiment with water and sound

Motivation:

At the same time to provoke awareness of the rising water issue in malaysia, in conjunction with WWF's effort of educating people about the environment.

Idea/concept:

My intention is to expose to users about water in Malaysia. How is our daily use of water brought to us?

previously, the metaphore I planned to use was umbrella. By using the same objective, motivation and identified problem, my idea is an audio visual installation. Using sound and video of different source of water, this installation will be using pail/ bucket as its visual metaphore. The reason of using pail / bucket is simply because it has direct connection with water. Generally pails are used to carry water.

Different sizes of pails are located in some spots and the motion sensor should be near to the pail. In the pails there are the videos of different water source footages, say the waterfall, river flow, tap water, etc. It should look like the water is in the pail. Each sensor will attached with different sound of the water. When user are in the area of sensors, motion detected and it will trigger the sound output from the speaker around the space. When more people are in different spots of the sensor, differnt sound will be played simultaneously. It could be an experiment for the users to play around with the different water sound installed. It would create something like a sound mixing experience.

The visuals in the pail is just to indicate the users of the source of sound, instead of showing in text, i suppose by showing videos would be more interesting.