Our team members Alec , Dan, Gemma, Kevin, Maz and mentor Tobie come from Chichester, Bognor Regis, Fishbourne and London. We have our workshop based at the Oxmarket Centre for the Arts in Chichester.

Individual final projects have been developed across a range of media, encompassing programming, animation, video and electronics. We'd like to thank: Ben, Rose and everyone at Oxmarket, and our external mentors Alex, Dan and Michael.

An article about FSP was published in Times Educational Supplement, which featured the Chichester group, a pdf can be downloaded here.

One of our initial projects was to build a webpage introducing the team and where we work, you can see that here .

We built the pages above from scratch, looking to html, javascript and cascading style sheets to put it together. Link to the support documents for the project here .

The aim of this project was to take a fresh look at something familiar. How would we go about designing a new product or service around chocolate? A good place to start is by observing and interviewing people who eat, love, hate, sell, make or hide chocolate. Taking onboard the opinions and values of others challenges our own assumptions, and helps create a new approach as designers.

These observations were edited and presented as short documentaries which can be linked to below.

Briefing documents, 1, 2 (PDF format).
choc-interviews (QuickTime 7 required, 4.1 MB)
choc-diabetes (QuickTime 7 required, 2.7 MB)

Hacking is not a dirty word. Hacking is about understanding and adapting systems so that they are more useful for you. In this project we focused on modifyong an off-the-shelf product to extend it's functions. Robosapiens was our platform of choice, and we explored customising infra-red control, adding a radio communication link and generally breaking the original object.

The movies below served an important role, allowing us to document, reflect and communicate the project to others. The briefing documents provide more detail on the knowledge that resulted from our hardware hacking.

Briefing documents, 1, 2, 3, 4 (PDF format).
robo-assemble (QuickTime 7 required, 3.5 MB)
robo-explore (QuickTime 7 required, 6.7 MB)
robo-public (QuickTime 7 required, 4.9 MB)
robo-radio (QuickTime 7 required, 8.6 MB)

Lady Liberty Stories
Alec Clark

This is about Alec, his moped and his favourite locations. Each Thursday, a different mission. We have film taken from:
- Journey to the Oxmarket
- Climping beach
- Oving - countryside village
Alec is using a mounted camera to produce innovative footage, then editing the film and producing a DVD.
Lady Liberty Stories by Alec(QuickTime 7 required, 10.2 MB)
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Interactive Comic
Daniel Watson

Interactive comic page, experimenting with possible user interactions:
- view from afar
- zoom in to explore and read
- click animations
thinking about short stories:
- lives of the characters
- the abilities/skills of the characters
- an event often has 3 stages - beginning, problem, resolution
In this project Daniel brings his talent for drawing Manga characters and love of stories to an interactive medium, using flash to create a prototype for a bigger interactive comic book.
Clicking each comic cell zooms the view into an animated close up.
Interactive Comic by Dan (flash player required)
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Secret Gaming
Gemma Stapleford

At any moment of the day, there are no less than 32,000 business meetings taking place, with an average of 3 people per meeting. That's 96,000 bored people. Many people use laptops to take notes at these meetings. The truth is they would secretly prefer to be beating their top score on their favourite Internet game.The problem is that furious finger tapping that come with game play gives their secret away. This internet game can be played secretly. This could be with your feet, by shuffling nodding or farting. Well probably not farting - we will try to use gestures and movement one would expect to see and hear in a meeting.

Think about what the game is, and how it will be controlled. Use the resources available on line to learn about how top make a game (mentors will also support you here) but keep in mind the main theme - the secret business meeting game. You might even make the game look secret, or tiny, or made out of words. This project brings Gemma's interests in programming, web design and interaction design together.

Follow the link below to see the prototype. Click the wordsearch to make it active. Your arrow keys move the cursor around the grid, and space bar selects the start or end of a word. Pressing "1", "2" or "3" on your keyboard toggles the display to hide your real activity from your boss!
Prototype game using HTML and Javascript
Secret Gaming by Gemma (flash player required)
Thanks to Jan Mulder for his code, which was adapted here
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Interactive Travel Journal
Kevin Fairhall

Kevin wants to bring together video, sound and image footage from the residential in Barcelona. This will be packaged as an interactive journal of his experience deliverable on DVD.
Barcelona Documentary by Kevin (QuickTime 7 required, 8.3 MB)
Barcelona short by Kevin (QuickTime 7 required, 1.9 MB)
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P3 - Public Projection Project
Mariam Elliott

In this project I am going to design a website using skills and techniques that i will develop in the following 10 weeks. This website is going to be all about interesting ways that people can display images and opinions that they would like to share with the rest of the public. This will include Stencil Graffiti, Adbusting and Video Projection onto public buildings and spaces.

I would also like to design an 'auto- stencil' system that allows the public to submit their own images to the P3 website. These images will then be put onto a continuous rotating slideshow which will projected onto a particular wall or building seen by many people. In this way it becomes a public art piece.
Research images from east London (QuickTime 7 required, 1.9 MB)
Public Projection Project slideshow of web-cam grabs by Maz (QuickTime 7 required, 3.1 MB)
Public Projection Project slideshow of stencils by Maz (QuickTime 7 required, 1.2 MB)
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