Material Concerns

Extensive housing blog :
http://www.google.com/notebook/public/04552762255219171803/BDRJ6SgoQ6eXZotEj?hl=ru

Experiential Section

Shadow Installations

http://monoblepsia.blogspot.com/2009/02/incredible-shadow-installations.html


Kumi Yamashita

Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Abundance

Text Rain

Design Idea - Collective Participation and Event

Design Proposal:
Design a perforated shading device in a public space in Toronto. Record the movement of the people who pause to use the device and animate the space. Film their shadows intermingling with the light filtered through the shading device against a hard surface incorporated within the design of the device.

Event Preparation:
Edit the filming of the human shadow and light recordings. Install shading device in school for final review and project the new choreographed sequence back onto the hard surface of the device.

Project goals:
1. Craft a shading/light filtering device to be installed in a public space.
2. Use the movement of many people as well as daylight to record the animation of a public space.
3. Investigate the intermingling (communication) between light and shadow against the materials chosen and start to understand   how these elements work together.
4. Attempt to instill a sense of atmosphere through the careful editing and choreographing of the recordings
5. Create a performance/event out of the collective participation of many people in a public space, without being too prescriptive about their activities or movement.

Missing factors: Incorporation of sound.
Could be facilitated by:
the oscillations of the shading device with the wind.
the conversations of the people using the space
using music/sound to draw people towards the device in the public space.

Reinventing Identity and Public Image

the part of the environment that lay beyond a person's own threshold and outside his own possessions, but to which, however, that person had recognized claim of usage---not to produce commodities but to provide for the substance of kin. Neither wilderness nor home is commons, but that part of the environment for which customary law exacts specific forms of community respect. (Illich 1982:18)

In cities of increasingly circumscribed social, racial, or economic enclaves, the maiden has come to both symbolize and provide neutral territory, a ground where people can gather on a common plane. It is a place that offers freedom from obligation. This ability to accommodate a diverse range of social and political structures makes the maiden an extremely significant space in the city. It is a place where people can touch the spirit of commonness (Mathur 199:215)