Fantasia: Transdisciplinary Collaboration Systems

Motion Design

Exploring the symbiotic relationship between movement and sound through interdisciplinary collaboration. This experiment paired undergraduate designers with graduate music composers in a 'blind' collaboration, requiring them to build a cohesive audio-visual system based on non-objective abstract parameters. I partnered with music composer Professor Mahir Cetiz. This project was solved with a mix of 2D After Effects, 3D Blender, and practical VFX.

Pedagogical Inquiry: How can design students be taught to collaborate effectively with non-designers on a purely abstract concept? This project simulates a high-level, interdisciplinary challenge by randomly pairing undergraduate animators with graduate music composers. Given only a single word (e.g., "splash," "rumble"), they are tasked with building a cohesive audio-visual system while working in isolation for the first half of the project.

Outcome: A model for transdisciplinary teaching that mirrors the collaborative, cross-disciplinary environments found in leading research institutions.