CHLOE

The Project The final assignment in our Building Virtual Worlds class was lovingly dubbed “The Kobayashi Maru,” after the no-win test Spock creates and Kirk cheats in Star Trek. We were given five weeks to design a student installation for the 2010 Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition, or CODE Live, which had leased our school’s warehouse for the Olympic month. We began with two weeks for student pitches that had to meet CODE’s ideals, which were to promote creativity, connectivity and collaboration. From there, three weeks remained from bringing three winning proposals from paper to physical form, to a level presentable to a global audience. I was assigned to the team that pitched the Collaborative Hallway Lit-Obstacle Experiment, or CHLOE. CHLOE consists of 12 square pads placed in a 3x4 pattern down a hallway, so that anyone crossing can't help but walk over. When a person walks over one of its...