P05 Statement of Intent

19 December 2019

PROJECT PROPOSAL

SECTION 1: Background – Project 4 Reflection:

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Processes:

• Contrast: growth & decay; old & new; constraint & compliance
• Circular processes: crystallization & shedding
• Electrical conduction – all solutions and materials
• Natural processes vs. industrial / technological interventions – contrasting effects and narratives
• Coating, eating away, growth, accumulation, shedding

Outcomes:

• Organic Forms
• Colours & textures – engineered/ speculative
• Fragile (salt crystals) vs. hardy (copper crystals) vs. in between (blue salt crystals)

SECTION 2: Project Proposal

1. IDEA – Explore natural processes and reactions, combine with industrial / technological interventions in the development of interactive/participatory objects as stimuli for inquiry, excitement & intrigue.

USP –

• Bio/geo/chemically engineered forms – unpredictable
• Symbolic & aesthetic contrasts
• Circular growth & decay process
• Same palette of materials – unique and diverse outcomes

2. AIMS – Thinking Objects – promote and provoke individual perception & thought in audience

3. RESEARCH –

Secondary:

• Material & Process – Biodesign, natural mineral formations – Natural History Museum, Crystal & Gem book, Colour Treasury of crystals – Conditions, Processes, Compositions
• Participation & Stimulus – Precedents – Lygia Clark, Books – Emotional Design

Primary:

• Metal & The Body

1. Photography experiment
2. Test pieces on the body – interaction, movement, shedding, breaking, dance
3. Precedent: Gijs Bakker
4. Books: Unexpected Pleasures

• Metal in The Environment

1. Take materials and processes outside – document natural and artificial processes and effects (Sun, dew, wind, temperature – India)
2. Precedent: Olafur Eliasson

• Scale Up

1. Test process on larger objects/ formwork – in between human & architectural scale
2. Precedent: Odd Matter

4. Site?

• Human Body – material/skin/breathe/toxicity/effect on skin/ corrosive?
• Environment/outdoors – conditions, reactions, natural processes – formwork, how hardy? how big? what context?
• Impact on Environment – Pollution, salt spread/wind – vinegar? salt

5. How to convert experimentation into a resolved body of work

• Processes explored – exploit contrasting narratives (Cyclic regrowth, decay); basic material construction (riveting)
• Materials used (and developed) – palette for diverse unique outcomes

6. Development

• Studies – body, environment, relationship, context
• Human experience – tests
• Photographs and documentation
• Scaled up models, place in potential contexts

7. How I will achieve these aims

• Research
• Precedents
• Practical development
• Narratives – perception studies and decisions

8. Final Outcome: Installation (on the body? in space? both?) connecting the human body with the natural environment, and organic (natural?) processes with the human made (artificial? anthropocene?) environment.