Week 10: Co-Design Workshop

This week I had my co-design workshop with Keri Cunliffe. It was really good to get some feedback from a fresh pair of eyes and also see where my other classmates were at and the projects they had put together.

Below is my presentation for the workshop.

I also put together a script and some questions to help present my project and ideas as well as some questions to get some help on some aspects I am not as confident in.

I got some really good feedback on what is working well and how my conceptual ideas were interesting and comprehensive. I also got some good suggestions for things to move forward on and develop.

Below are my responses to some of the feedback I received:

• The title is definitely something I want to work on and its good to know others opinions on it. I decided I needed a title for the workshop but I considered it a working title because it’s too generic and doesn’t articulate my project in the way I want it to.
• The feedback on seating was rea;;y helpful. Seating is one of the details in my space that I have yet to explore fully and develop. I have thought about the seating briefly and done some research but one aspect of it that bugs me is the storage of it. Keri’s suggestion to use benches instead of the singular fold-out chairs and position them in the resting state curtain layout when the theater space is not in use is brilliant. I also love how versatile and fluid I can make the space with having movable contents within the space which can further manipulate the movement and interaction of people within the installation. I also like the point she made about it creating more interaction with the space and how it creates a reason to stop and exist within the space rather than quickly pass through; the installation becomes more of a destination in its resting state. My next step for this idea is to design a bench that will work for my space.
• One other important suggestion Keri made was materiality. I was still not sure on how I wanted to go about this aspect of the project but Keri gave some good suggestions to look further into. I did some research into a variety of materials including LED fabric and fiber optic fabric which were amazing and so fascinating but it didn’t work well with what I wanted to achieve. I did also look into chain mail or dying a fabric but I definitely want to use the curtain as a projection screen in the theater space rather than bringing in a large screen because that would require storage facilities and it would take away from the concept. This is why I have decided to work with a white canvas because it allows the fluidity and form I want to achieve as well as acting as a screen for creatives to display their work. My installation is a blank canvas for creatives to use in the way they desire; it allows a less restrictive space.