ALEXANDROS
BARBAYIANIS

Live Project:   The Wishing Well GitHub Repo:   barbajohnz/ConnectionsLab-Final-Wishing-Well The Concept I wanted to create an interactive sound installation where people can anonymously record wishes that blend together into this collective soundscape. The idea is that your individual voice gradually dissolves into a chorus of shared hopes through reverb effects and timed playback - so you start clear and personal, but slowly become part of something bigger. Inspiration The

Key Concept & Intentions Originally we were thinking about making a photosharing app like instagram with comments and all that but we quickly realized that without paying for render the workaround this would have been way longer and more challenging than we thought. We decided to tone our idea down and pivot to something more achievable which ended up being way cooler anyway. We went with a myspace tumblr early 2000s social media webbrowser aesthetic, basically full y2k nosta

Concept & Intentions I wanted to merge two things I'm passionate about: Greek geography and Pokemon. Originally, I planned to use the full PokeAPI - when you clicked a region, a random Pokemon would appear. After talking with Craig, he encouraged me to simplify the scope. That's when I pivoted to a more structured approach: what if each of Greece's 13 regions had an associated Pokemon type, with one specific Pokemon assigned to each? The inspiration came from Pokemon Scarlet/