Project Evaluation

Void

This project has come together to create an alternative layer to a Manchester Design Festival reflecting our ideas as a group concerning sensory interference and interpretation. As a group we have worked well discussing and generating our thoughts and ideas, and supporting each other in every element of the Festival in terms of promotion, spaces and making. I have particularly found working in a group beneficial, it has been a good way to share research and expand your knowledge on a subject we have all been passionate about.
We found it was best spending as much time together in the studio as we possibly could, it gave us time to reflect on our thoughts and for us all to have so kind of input with the experiments carried out. When decisions were made we made them as a group and took everyone's opinions into consideration and I believe that this was why our group functioned together so well.
Although there were points that either experiments didn't quite work or not all of the group were able to meet, however these obstacles were all part of learning as a group and the things that didn't work out became parts of the project we could reflect on positively and fins alternative ways of using the process. As a group we kept each other updated with our ideas through the social network page we created for our group, on here we could discuss our thoughts and it became a good way of organizing ourselves.
The research carried out within this project has been of great interest to me and I intend to further my research into the subject of sensory interference. I have found working in a group a challenging way of learning and working however working with likeminded people has been an inspiring and positive experience, it has encouraged me to think about other peoples thought processes and ways of approaching their work, certain elements I think are things I can incorporate in approaching my own work.

Concealed Glow Panels

Initially I thought of making a space made from the pouches, a space that for the Festival would be placed in various locations around the city, spaces where people can take time to waste time and reflect and think about senses they wouldn't usually notice.
The piece is a series of three panels, two of the panels contain a series of resin cast cubes containing glow in the dark paint, and the third is made from the original pouches painted with the glow in the dark paint entrapped between the sheer panels of fabric. I wanted them to reflect the ghostly layered ideas in relation to my experimentation with the maps.

Final Maps

Final map samples.

Group 3 Final Manifesto

Void

 An alternative layer to a Manchester Design Festival.

Working alongside a daytime festival, VOID is a design festival taking part at night. Creating an alternate Manchester within the darkness.

VOID will not promote specific events or reveal content prior to the start of the festival. But rather, reveal snapshots of what might be to come, through promotional material. Working with the idea that VOID will seem like an empty blank space until the night reveals all.

VOID is concerned with regeneration of non-spaces within Manchester through the experience of the people rather than tangible redevelopment.

VOID considers intangible design through sensory experience and interaction rather than design of commodity or product.

Exploring the limits of what can be experienced through the heightening of senses. VOID creats a space detached from everyday distractions and allows the audience to simply experience their senses. Encouraging interaction with each other but also creating areas for sole reflection.

We are VOID. A night time design festival.

Not reflecting on the past or concerning the future but experiencing the now.

Mapping

My intention was to create a layered map, I had researched into the idea of ghost mapping and by concealing the layers with tracing paper. We discussed ideas of painting the area of Cathedral gardens with luminous to hide the location of the Festival until darkness. I experimented with cut outs of the area and layers of light to illuminate the space.

Interactive video

Projection of Tom's promotional video onto Ursula's mouldable stitched form. The idea for the audience to interact moulding the fabric into different shapes, moving the light around the wall.