Welcome to the altbods blog

We use this blog as a resource to discuss the notion of "alternative bodies" in the marketplace and how to design for them/for us. We critique Euro-centric ideology pressed into design and research methods to make room for "alternative bodies" as the focus of artistic creation.

This blog represents the thoughts and art work of our studio class -- by students in architecture, design, illustration, sculpture, graphic and visual arts. We are a hybrid group with many talents.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Religion

I have not been really religious all my life, but islam has been forced upon me by my parents since I was little. I picked my project because that I felt that if I could not really be religious than maybe I could contribute to my religion by thinking of an idea to help the traveling muslims. I was also impressed by the ideas and the projects that the others were doing, I think all of them are great.

I have been trying to contact islamic groups in Seattle and Jakarta, and trying to ask them if my project would be a good idea or not. So far i have received feed back from several and they say that it would be great if they could have a luxurious looking watch that could remind them to pray and show which direction to pray.

btw, I have seen "we were here" also, and I think that the movie was good. kinda sad though.

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