Force of Friction
Within this unit of the semester we had a huge collaboration between our three core classes and we studied, the problems of undocumented migrants. For our physics class we wanted to see how we could connect this to our work and we found a way. We decided that we would be creating moving art or kinetic art. We wanted to be able to represent change while still having something physics related and so we decided to do this. My art piece was going to be a staircase that would be capable of transporting a little marble all the way across and then we would have it go back to its starting point. This seemed like a simple task but later turned out to be slightly more complicated than that and we ended up having a failed product. We had the concepts and everything right, but our mechanisms weren't all well though out and so we had a big product that wouldn't move very well. Overall it was a great plan and idea but we didn't have the skill to get it going.