This week before our pin up on Thursday I was able to finish my 1:50 scale model of the design intervention, finalize my positioning statement and finish my site map.
1:50 SCALE MODEL
SITE MAP
FINAL POSITIONING STATEMENT
Reconnection: Changing perspectives and viewpoints.
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 placing plants into a manmade structure changes the way they are viewed conceptually. 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. The aim with my design intervention is to reconnect these two separate worlds of plant life and create a shift of subconscious perception. The project will articulate how a plant’s importance is not defined by the structure it is homed in. It will shift viewers’ thinking to an understanding of how their presence and intervention influence the meaning of a space and its subjects, and also how plant life, both “encased” and “free”, are always connected through a larger ecological system.
My aim is to explore this concept through lighting qualities and reflection. Something that articulated the dark undertone of the plant life inside the glasshouses being trapped and trying to escape was the soft looming shadows and blurred images of the plants pressing against the fogged glass on the exterior of the glasshouse. The soft horror lighting quality was very intriguing in the way it told this story of entrapment, and it was the physical quality on the site that I was most drawn to. This inspired further research where I discovered how reflective qualities would also help in articulating the reconnection of plant life.
Reconnection is a project that uses lighting and reflection qualities to tell a story and alter perspectives. It is an experiential exhibition that seeks to articulate the desperate story of a cry for help from those without voices. Reconnection inspires questions, opens minds and provokes visitors to rewrite the stories next chapter.
I also decided to give my project a name; Reconnection. The word reconnection is something that encapsulates my concept and supports my presentation documents. I feel like it ties everything up together well.
Spatial Design by Ciara 