In thinking about thresholds between virtual and physical reality, I think about all sorts of other thresholds. What is the threshold between different transitions and stages of our life?
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In the creation of this project, I am writing school fanfiction. I revisit a common dream I have of queueing up on the lunch line, choosing between various mass-produced “dishes” that are available, and then finding a place least awkward to put down your tray.
“Schools are —in a sense—the nation’s largest restaurant chain. But too often, our education system approaches feeding 30 million kids a day as a burden: lunch time is a drain on learning time, cafeteria culture is a drain on school culture,” (Reimagining School Cafeterias)
But what does it look like from the child’s point of view? It can be a place of socialization, comfort, fear, anxiety. It’s such a foundational space of growing up for so many kids that grew up in the U.S.
First draft of Unreal Engine final project “Reality Threshold”
