Animation diagram testing and Edited Thesis

Thing and Counterthing animation

                                                            Thoroughfare Animation

Ayutthaya Animation

All the animation testing just separated the part of each drawing, this one just the text annotate to the different layers of information. Soon will add more on the picture and research video, the time frame would be more corresponding to the voice over.

Thesis

Territories of Value

A virtual treasure room for Siam

The Value theory compose of a range to understand how, why and to what degree people value things; whether the thing is a person, idea, object, or anything else. Bruno Latour mentioned about the value as matter of fact and matter of concern. The more objects are turn into things that is the more matter of facts are turn into matter of concern. What makes a thing valuable? And to whom? How do we keep, exhibit and protect valuable things? And who decides what makes a things valuable or not?

Evaluation of value has been extended from the range of individual personal level to the bigger scale of national level or cultural level, How does a culture agree on what is valuable and not? Example from the V&A museum in London, the criteria’s of choice were made by the council decision and voting process from the nominated treasure. How and who decides? What are the treasures of our time? What defines us as an era?

Who wants to see the treasures? And why? Why is it important to show and experience treasures of past time? Could be for national and cultural promotion or propaganda, could be for educational purposes, perhaps it could also be for sentimental and emotional reasons.

The matter of fact and the matter of concern were taken a big part with how we perceive the value of the object. Example from the Michael Jacksons’ glove, the matter of fact has it own limit of what it is, it is a glove that made for hands protection. The matter of concern were extended out with how we visualize the object, the glove belong to Michael Jacksons, the world famous singer that, which make his glove concern more on valuable. Explain, value as matter of fact, material, age, etc. and matter of concern. Michael Jacksons glove.

Today much of value theory is scientifically study, recording what people do value and attempting to understand why they value it in the context of psychology, sociology, and economics.

Thai heritage temple, Wat Ratchaburana, Ayutthaya, Thailand, is the most valuable Phra Prang in Thailand. It was built by King Chao Samphaya in 1424, with the specific purpose to kept the treasure and dedicated to his two brothers. The complexity of value through the layers inside, while approach into the treasure room create the hierarchy and the expression of the shell and the essence part inside Phra Prang. Today simple brick with simple ornament outside show the trace of past time which rich of ornaments with color, shape, form and material. Recently leaded to the underestimated of the value, but once get inside Prang the value reveal itself through the treasure underneath. Express the different layers from outside surface with ornaments, along with the laterite brick structure and the treasure room innermost. Phraprang was to contain and protect the valuable treasure inside, while it can communicate and express value through the surface. Treasure is a concentration of riches and power, often one that is considered lost or forgotten until being rediscovered. The treasure inside was discovered by Silpakorn department and taken out into Chao Samphaya museum for its own safety and exhibition. The treasure room today contains no treasure inside, but left the trace of Ayutthaya painting that symbolize the Buddha story.

Museum was extracts each object from its own origin environment and transfer into the new site in the museum. All the treasure was kept inside a building in a room and in the glass box, which make people further away to approach and interact with the object through the glass surface.

In the world of technology, things change and developed through the median of technology. By means of information technologies, interaction between different dimensions and attribute them in different functions and degrees of importance according to the reality that we need to represent. This new way of dealing with treasures and heritage allows individuals and groups to interact with the objects, and nominate new ones.

To evaluate and interpret the meaning of the value nowadays, we depend on the degree or amount of value that ties to human needs and wants, as well as memories. Technology involved being a part of our precious value memories, through the picture and collection of data, bring back and recover to capture the moment anytime.

The complexity of value that ties to our own perception and evaluation was experimented in the Papaya Warehouse, Bangkok. The experiment video show the gather of antique object in the same splendid place, giving the new experience through the route in each steps, scanning and looking with different kind of the object and try to extract the value behind it. The hierarchy shown through the categories of individual value, sociology value and economy value that represent in different hierarchy of information and graphic. The example show from the table and chair with the…

The value that ties to the memories, which empower the power through the vehicle as a treasure using by the King Rama V. The Royal palanquin is now in Bangkok National Museum to communicate the power from the history to the present day, the value communicates through the materials of monarchy. Another example that can compare with, “The Beast” President Barack Obama’s limousine that communicate the power through the shell as a skin protected inside and symbolize the democracy. The ornaments communicate the power through the median of the shell and skin of the surface.

As travel along the street, signify the power and variety of value through the journey along the road. To communicate the value of both actual power and visual power, by the level change of the width and height of the road. The space is to design the complexity in different scale, higher the road is higher actual power, wider of the road is the wider of the visual power.

In design of the 3D virtual space make the question arise of the way we evaluate the value in our virtual age. Sociology, Psychology and Economy satisfied our needs and want.



P.S. the red one is additional text from the last time, also i haven't put in the virtual space explanation, because i'm still not sure about it.