After I received some feedback on my positioning statement last week, I wanted to go back to it and refine it. My last iteration of my positioning statement wasn’t clear on how I was going to achieve my concept. I didn’t cover what methods/materials I was going to use or what the physicality of the concept was. I have been stuck for quite a while now on the conceptual side of my work which has resulted in me not putting more thought into how I will execute this on a physical level. I rewrote my positioning statement to guide me and give me direction. Below are my notes and my latest positioning statement.
DRAFT NOTES
Main points/key words of what I am focusing on
Why I am focusing on this
What type of space I’m going to explore
How I want to explore it and why
POSITIONING STATEMENT
Reconnecting two separate worlds separated by structure and a social concept.
This project is focused on the reconnection of plant life on the inside and outside of the Wintergarden walls on both a physical and conceptual level. The inspiration of this concept derives from my fascination with the way the plants in the Wintergarden space, specifically the glasshouses, expressed a sense of entrapment and displacement through their testing and challenging of the physical constraints of the structure. This led me to investigate how humans placing these plants in a particular structure gives them another context and it projects human social concepts onto plant life. Ultimately, we subconsciously view the plants inside the glasshouses to be superior or of higher importance than those that grow outside the walls just because of their physical context.
My project will focus on an exhibition experience with educational qualities that reconnects these two separate worlds of plant life and creates a shift of subconscious perception. The project will articulate how a plant’s importance is not defined by the structure it is homed in and will shift viewers’ thinking to an understanding that the plant life is, and will always be, regardless of human intervention, connected through a larger system.
My aim is to explore this concept through the lighting qualities of reflection and transparency. Something that articulated the dark undertone of the plant life inside the glasshouses being trapped and trying to escape was the exterior of the east wall of the Tropical House. The way the plants pressed against the weathered frosted glass with the morning sun beaming through behind them, casting softly dark shadows, gave this soft horror effect, almost like a cry for help. The lighting quality with the level of transparency in the glass was very intriguing in the way it told this story of entrapment and was the physical quality of the site I was most drawn to. Along with some research, I found the reflective and transparency effects of surfaces to be the most intriguing and will help me in articulating my concept through physical design.
This positioning statement gives me more direction in terms of how I am going to execute my concept. Rewriting this has not only allowed me to regroup and refine my ideas, it has also given mee an opening to exploring intervention ideas.
Spatial Design by Ciara 