06 September 2019
Objects, Materials and Resources found at the Nomadic Community Garden, Allen Greens, and Identified Site
Ideas and aesthetics expressed though objects and art created from mainly found objects:
- Packaging from food and drinks brought by visitors and artists, bottle caps, coffee cups, beer cans
- Plants, dried foliage, logs, organic gardening waste
- fences, tyres, wires, coils, metal plates, trash cans (holding up tables)
- Wood slats and old furniture
- Beer cans, spray cans
- Goodwill objects
Elements creating the environment
- Regular sound of Overground
- People walking, cycling, skateboarding, sunbathing, swinging
- Music from nomadic gardens
- Relaxed vibe, as compared to fast paced tube lines
- Feeling of community, yet outsiders visit like tourists
- Street art as backdrop
- Innovative use of waste and found material
- Freedom – non regulated public space
- Element of Surprise – each time – meet different people, see different art and objects, plants, flowers and events – keep changing
- Bright colours
Identified objects associated with site activities:
- Cherry picker/ ladder
- Seating?
- Lugging of gardening equipment
- modular art
- Paint stencils and projection
- Umbrellas/ Canopy/ weather protection
- Interactive stimulus for engagement
Interview Questions:
Artists:
- preferred methods of disposal
- Ask: what kinds of paint used? Brands, Great art store: how is stuff disposed?
- Any eyes/nose/throat irritation from paint?
- Suppliers of materials-do they collaborate with each other?
- Do they socialise with other artists in the space?
Great Art store:
- Green earth initiative
- How is it disposed?
- How much material do they receive?
- Where is the facility? Can i visit?
- Collaborative disposal?
Community owners: (roving cafe owner, biochar guy, bike repair guy)contact no. Or you could phone us:Jay: 07538 951 300 Or just send us an email:info@1lovecommunity.org.uk
- What are needs of services and products
- Any involvement in waste disposal?
- How is the garden in bad weather? Colder months? Night time?
- what kind of people do you encounter?
- what kind of art design intervention do you hope for?
- whom does the land belong to? When did u start developing? extent of nomadic garden-what about space outside?
- Who owns, how they feel about it? Relation with nomadic garden
- how do people get to know without much advertisement? Does it filter people? Do they like it that way?(selective crowd)
- most busy time of day/week/year
Allotment bed owners/ urban agriculturists/biochar guy:
- How are you using the space?
- Needs in terms of design intervention?
- how does art affect you?-how does disposal affect you?
- waste materials produced from gardening
Tourists/ general non participating populace:
Purpose of visit-part of art community? does the art affect you in any way?
Jessica
- street art tour guide:-reaction of tourists-repeated visits: what the garden means to her-does she visit often?
- Does she know them? Has she been part of community garden?
ANALYSIS
- necessary/optional and social activities(site is rich in optional activities, hence perfect for prompting social activity)
- needs for furniture/objects/services-climatic/weather/legal constraints
design factory 