Dear all,This is now actually happening - it has taken some time to test, develop and deliver a start to this part of the experiment of using communicative learning links between two distant parts of the globe. We are in Hertfordshire, England, communicating with the BHC Design School in South Africa.
Entrance, Whitechapel Gallery
THE BEGINNING
Interior and Spatial Design level 2 students have started initial tasks and have visited the site; the Whitechapel Gallery in East London. A meeting/lecture was held at the Round Table in the Guernica room - and we are now, through that intervention, part of a 'archive of events and moments that have taken place in that room, around that table'. This is part of Artist in Residence Goshka Macuga's art installation/project. We are putting together files and video from that day, to be stored in the archive. That's rather exciting, I think, to be part of an event like that; to be making a mark on history for our selves as a design group/student group.
TASKS - CHOREOGRAPHY - PERFORMANCE
Tasks for the day were: to produce a short performance 1-2 minutes - part of mapping process - to explore conceptual thinking, occupying space whilst performing 'a trivial' task (walking, moving slowly, mimicking others, and so connecting to the site and its users, history, building, future.. FROM THIS, learning will take place for design ideas of a site specific performance/installation/CHOREOGRAPHY to be developed through experimentation and later, drawing and visualising and placing on site.
Next stage is to finalise experiments and start getting sketches, CAD etc., into the complete picture. Video and photography should be used as explorative tools throughout.
H
