Sketching in Hardware Day 2: Pamela Jennings

Constructed Narratives Construction Kit

• mechanical puzzle and language game designed to encourage exchange of ideas
• technology in public spaces as tool of engagement
• continues existing languages of wooden block forms
• building in physical world echoed on screen

goals

• encourage discussion


• physical interface for learning and exploration


• component tracking system that requires minimum of external devices


• system for building and annotating physical models

2008 prototype emphasizes both swift prototyping and management of power needs in individual blocks

co-building language space and negotiating with that space through physical construction of blocks

Conversation
the blocks are magnetic and they snap together