Beth Ames Altringer Eagle


  Design Engineer | Artist | Professor

How might we communicate the first-person sensory experience of a place remotely?


Deconstructing Sensory Experience II


Project Goal: How Might We Capture the Sensory Experience of a Place Without Going There?
Funding: Umbria Art residency, Italy
Recognition: Exhibition 2015-2016, Italy
2014 - 2015

A DAY IN THE LIFE, TOLD IN PARTS is part of a larger project called THREE STORIES OF MONESTEVOLE, in which I focused on deconstructing and reconstructing the hard-to-describe sensory experience of being in a place.

For this piece, I individually catalogued elements of the sensory experience of Monestevole. Click each element to explore the component stories - from flora and fauna to architectural, interior, culinary and utilities - that make up the experience of life on site.





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“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin it, and the work will be completed.”

- Goethe (in German)
as translated by John Anster

Faculty Roles & Bios

Current:
  1. Distinguished Professor of Design and Inaugural Director of Dartmouth Initiative on Design (DIAD)
  2. Faculty Associate / Harvard University Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Previous:
  1. Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) / Design / Faculty Associate & Founding Director, MA Design Engineering (MADE)
  2. Brown University / School of Engineering / Professor (bae[at]brown.edu)
  3. Harvard University / School of Engineering & Applied Sciences / Faculty

Design Practice Roles

Founder, Ames StudioDesirability Lab
Contact: b[at]ames.studio