This is our brief.
This is our site.
This is us jumping in our site.
This is a man sitting next to our site.
This is urban fill.
This is the process we did today.
This is our team.
We are all different people and the tricky part of this project is to make one thing. (or bunch of things)
It’s the problem with public space, this expectation that we should all agree on a safe and civil environment for everyone. In trying to please everyone, you risk either pleasing no-one or just making beige, no-place space.
We are already committed to layers and layers, and what happens when you design with disagreement and diversity and discovery?
Our process so far has been about splitting then coming back together, different teams into different depths then messy conversations to connect us. Perhaps the most pervasive bit is that the everyday, ticking of the clock, windy cold and sunny patches are the vices that will eventually glue something.
Not sure yet, but we can attest to all that our process is making lots of ideas and occupations, making public space through fill.
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Yeah, some mispelling
Following the symposium, we decided to go to as many of the ten sites in the Docklands as we could.
We understand place through occupation. We stage happenings and we see what happens.We stopped at each site, looked around, reacted, posed for the camera.
We now have a little memory of a happening at each site in the area. We hope to get more clues about the ecology as we occupy the site over the next three days.We also understand place through communication. We start conversations, we share and we listen.
We stopped someone else at each site, a passer by, asked if they would help us take a picture.
We now have met some of the residents, the workers and the tourists in the area. We hope to form more relationships as we become a part of the ecology over the next three days. We hope that Joe who works across the street and parks his car at NAB stops by again and shares more of his expert ideas about using projectors. We wished the trio of tourists from Sydney could have stayed a few extra days as they had so much enthusiasm and energy for the project. We hope to meet more of the residents who helped to save the garden. We are very encouraged by the traders who have offered us so much support and are so excited about something finally happening! We hope you enjoy the photos (thanks Bryan for sending them through)! Over the next three days, please come and down and say hi, we'd love your participation!
x Team 7
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