Welcome to Spatial Design Studio III: Advanced investigation of the design and development of spaces and places for human habitation and use.

224.351 Paper Outline | Assessment Schedule

Project 02_2013

MODES OF DISPLAY: develop a design proposal for the 2013 Massey graduate fashion show & exhibition

This project is run in conjunction with 224.361_Multimedia.

Project 2 interactive brief & schedule

wk6 – final presentations & celebration!

Morning everyone and welcome Tim!

The order for today’s presentations will be:

Abbie
Alice
Amy
Bex
Dani
Emma
Janelle
Jeremey
Julia
Karianne
Olivia
Pearl
Rebekah
Steph
Summer
Zoe

I’m really excited to see the results of all your hard work 🙂

wk2: urban ramblings…

What a beautiful day it was for a ramble through the city! Starting where we finished the Feast (a fitting place for me to ramble on for a bit about the sensorial body as a research tool), we then wound our way down through the city, traversing, cutting through back alleys, even going around in circles, following our whims. We explored mainly outside spaces (possibly because the sun was shining, or maybe because we were drawn to the potential of inhabiting spaces of transition, flow and overt temporality), but sometimes peered through windows, particularly when abandoned, empty spaces caught our imaginations). As we (r)ambled along we let our thoughts ramble too. A few interesting fragments:

• There was a noticeable change in pace/people/purpose between the Cuba Street and Lambton Quay areas. Starfish started as Jive Junkies and had an early store in upper Cuba Street before opening the Willis St Starfish store, and the last pop-up store was on Lambton Quay. How has this reflected their change in target market? Who is the Starfish customer now and how do we get the ‘message’ across to them? Does Starfish need to back to its ‘roots’? Or is that preaching to the converted…?
• Could you use an existing (not vacant) space as a site? Any site can be proposed as long as there is a strong conceptual backing. Just bear in mind you must be able to measure your site (or obtain measurements) in order to produce accurate drawings and models.
• Don’t forget that the point of this pop-up store is to create a memorable/resonant experience for people – consider who those people are and how they are drawn in to engage with the experience. If you site your pop-up store in a remote or low-visibility location, how do people know it is there? Or does it become about the journey…?
• Your site could be indoor, outdoor, in-between, under, on top of…
• Some of our favourite spots on the ramble included carparks, alleyways, Marion Street (various), Cuba Street, Left Bank, Willis St market carpark, parks (Glover, Pigeon, Frank Kitts), civic square, waterfront (lots of potential sites!), area outside the Hotel Intercontinental (by the old newsagent kiosk). Other places we talked about but didn’t go to included the Cable Car, Overseas Passenger Terminal (currently under re-construction), Oriental Bay boatsheds and other spots. Most of these are outdoor spaces but consider indoor spaces too, including abandoned/empty buildings, public buildings, transport terminals (railway station, airport), and other places where people gather (bars, restaurants, clubs, halls, educational buildings, markets/supermarkets)… most importantly, consider why?

Fragments of my ramblings about rambling:

• “I confront the city with my body; my legs measure the length of the arcade and the width of the square; my gaze unconsciously projects my body onto the facade of the cathedral, where it roams over the mouldings and contours, sensing the size of recesses and projections; my body weight meets the mass of the cathedral door, and my hand grasps the door pull as I enter the dark void behind. I experience myself in the city, and the city exists through my embodied experience. The city and my body supplement and define each other. I dwell in the city and the city dwells in me.” (p. 43) – Pallasmaa, J. (2005). Eyes of the Skin. Chichester, England: Wiley-Academy.
• “By looking at rambling … space can be understood as a form of choreography, a series of performed movements … which are constructed and represented through social relations of looking and moving – exchanging, consuming and displaying. … the ramble represents a spatial configuration which describes the interpenetration of private and public.” (pp. 247-248)… “The verb “to ramble” describes incoherent movement, “to wander in discourse (spoken or written), to write or talk incoherently or without natural sequence of ideas.” As a mode of movement, rambling is unrestrained, random and distracted: “a walk … without any definite route or pleasure.”” (pp. 249-250) – Rendell, J. (2000). “Serpentine allurements”: disorderly bodies/disorderly spaces. In Borden, I. and Rendell, J. (Eds.), InterSections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories (pp.247-268). London, England: Routledge. full text here
• “Vagabonding was his phrase … carefully self-deprecating. But it does get the pleasure of the searching right, the way you lose your sense of time when you are researching, are pulled on by whims as much as by intent… I vagabond in libraries … I follow the leads … I go and stand outside his old offices … in the summer rain like some sad art-historical gumshoe and wait to see who comes out. … I find that as the months pass I have a strangely increased sensitivity to the quality of paper.” (pp. 72-73) – de Waal, Edmund. (2010). The Hare with the Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance. London, England: Vintage Books.

Have a great weekend, see you Monday!

Project 01_2013

Starfish: New Materialism

This project is run as a vertical studio with 200 level 224.251_Studio I, and in conjunction with 224.361_Multimedia and 224.381_Theory.

Project 01 brief | Schedule

Starfish brand intro | Laurie Foon NZFW AW2011 backstage interview

reading: Charles Eisenstein (2011) Sacred Economics: Chapter 23, A New Materialism

studio rules

• must be on time to class
• do not use ball point pens for drawing or sketching
• accept that you are going to make mistakes; learn from them and move on
• be brave, experimental and innovative
• do what is asked of you, responding in a critical manner
• take notes for each other at reviews
• you are not to use the term ‘artist’s model’

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