Antonio thought that we had some conceptual problem after our second presentation. We showed the ageing process with the hearing and a simplification of how the brain synapses disappears in time.

So we discussed about which step we should take further as a group. The first thing we decided was that the group should focus on one project at the time.

Then we discussed about the information loss when you get older, in the terms of that the actual hearing start to worsen the perception of some pronunciation. We decided a manifest of how our projects should look like:

• Concentrate about the information loss
• Highlight the loss in transmission
• Avoid exaggeration
• Emphasize the change
• To make it simple with some more functions if the users want to

We made also some pros and cons:

Pros: It is impressive and easy to implement.

Cons: Maybe too superficially, hard to clarify (how do we show more concrete about the loss?), maybe the visitors would not affected (it should contain more drama?) and could we finish the project.

During break an idea came up with an fictive checking-in card that a visitor get when they get in to the exhibition. When they check out they get a recipe and information about how much older they got since they checked in and other various “ageing” facts.

The concept was further developed, a black screen would be set up and the user has to press a button and white text pop up along with stressing sound. The text shows increasing data for example ageing in milliseconds and the number of lost brain cells. We made a prototype and showed Antonio. We told him that we wanted to show that the ageing process happens all the time and is not because of high age. He liked the idea but told us that it has not a clear connection to ageing.

For several days we were thinking about how to take a step further. We are interested in the constant process and want to highlight the mind blowing process that has high numbers. It is a challenge to make those figures more specific.

We are now focusing on the cell death process, if we would for example line up all the cells in a row they would die 7 metres per second, or 30 kilometres per hour.

And as I write this we are trying to think of a way to be even more concrete.

• Look at our visulisation of the synapses
• Look at our black screen (click on the middle of the screen and press blank space)