Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations

There is concern worldwide that environmental issues we face today will have an impact on future generations. Your challenge is to create a way to communicate the importance of environmental responsibility to people of all ages.

EMP - Emotion to Motion Project

Summary

The Emotion to Motion Project (EMP) is an initiative to promote audiences to take action after an inspiring or emotional moment. The EMP will be a series of artistic work on a public accessible website. Various artworks on different environmental protection issues which raise viewers' desire to take action, and builds a behavior response to continue take action even after the emotion has subsided. Through many types and styles of artworks to reach all generations of audiences and ensure the positive reinforcement behavior last.

How We Addressed This Challenge

What did you develop?

A series of art works that touches people and also encourage them to take action before the emotion fades away, furthermore to build a behavior pattern that a positive response like a habit will form after the "feeling" has gone.


Why is it important?

After experiencing a motivating speech, movie, song or a painting, our hearts burn with excitement and determination, we’re determined to take action. But the unfortunate truth for the majority of people is before we even take action, that excitement and determination that we had is already gone.


What does it do? 

We want to use music and visual arts for psychological behavior programming, making this series a emotional journey, while also inspire the viewer to convert emotion into motion.


How does it work? 

Every short film will be about an environmental protection issue, which contains climate change, extreme weather, ocean pollution, air/water/waste recycling, etc. We use "easy to understand" stories suitable for all ages to open people up to taking action. We leverage the cinematic photos and videos with custom built music to stir up people's emotion and make people feel "positively charged", and we will end each presentation with a down-to-earth, executable behavior to encourage viewer to "take action". When the action repeated enough times in heart, mind, and by body, it become a habit which will be carry out without a second thought.


What do you hope to achieve?

We hope that our audiences will eventually develop a habit of "take action" on environmental issues without having a doze or getting a fix of "positive charged" emotion. Doing something for environment is not just for the planet, but more importantly, it is for us and our future generations.

How We Developed This Project

What inspired your team to choose this challenge?

Because environmental health is important to all living things, including humans, and it is ever-lasting for all future generations.


What was your approach to developing this project?

We first pick a challenge that we all like, then we brainstorm ideas and find one that we think has the most amount of potential and that would achieve the most critical goal, the human survival.


What tools, coding languages, hardware, software did you use to develop your project? 

MacBook Pro



  • iMovie
  • FL studio
  • YouTube

iPhone SE2



  • Built-in Camera


What problems and achievements did your team have?

This was a first time experience of Hackathon for most of us. For the first day we could agree on anything, too many possibilities to explore. By the end of day one we felt like we were all out of ideas, and the pressure of the deadline worsened that feeling. Thank goodness that an idea hit us and we all loved it so we all went full speed ahead in the last 24 hours.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We looked at hundreds of pictures on NASA Image Gallery and watched videos on NASA's official website and youtube channel regarding the topic of climate change and environmental pollution. For future projects, we will incorporate more direct photos and footage in our work as will as interviews and news press of future events.

Project Demo

https://youtu.be/NPsq87GjZdM

Data & Resources

https://climate.nasa.gov/

https://youtu.be/oUKUP2s5_VY

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html

Tags
#TakeAction #EmotionToMotion #MissionConcept
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.