Tutorials and Insights

16 September 2019

ADAS Tutorials with Aleya

Aleya asked us to discuss the commonalities within our individual concepts to develop the most impactful presentation techniques for our collaborative presentation. While discussing our individual ideas, Wooli, Lilly and I realized that there was an interactive element in each of our concepts. We decided on inviting our audience to interact with our designs as our stakeholders would, on the site:

• Wooli’s Rose Arena would be actually painted on (on a layer of tracing sheet)
• Lilly’s flexible kaleidoscopic wall could be touched, bent and used as an interactive reflective surface for Wooli’s Rose Arena and my Installation
• The audience would be invited to come and string their ‘trash’ on the wings of my installation, as well as tug at the handles controlling the flapping mechanism, to explore different positions and forms

I hoped to get some inputs from my audience on the flapping mechanism and their interpretation of the functionality of its different forms.

Pair Tutorials with Claire

Claire suggested, that as a team we should work on integrating our respective ideas within the larger project context and rehearse our presentations to show collaboration throughout the project. For my concept, she suggested that the ‘participatory stringing of trash on the wings of the butterfly’ could be made into an event where I could have ore control over the materials as well as the aesthetics and attaching mechanism. As an example for the aesthetic composition, she suggested I look up the work of Al Anatsui, whose recycled material sculptures grace the likes of the TATE Modern.

17 September 2019

Individual Tutorial with Scott

• Suggestion that I could do a lot more y exploring the form – butterfly – already established form, too conventional; perhaps I could give them something to be intrigued by, challenged with. Example – a mashup of a number of different insects, with elements of each? and incorporating moving/interactive parts within those elements.. “People want to be challenged, want to see something new.”
• I agree that I haven’t given too much thought to the form of the installation, and find it exciting to think about more abstract forms for this installation.