I haven’t written in a while; I’ve been busy as a bee.
We had project 4 to contend with, which was a mind-pushing struggle. Our brief was to create a device which would simulate the movement of a personal daily ritual. I chose cutting a lemon (for morning tea), so I explored the movements involved in that. I looked at the leaning and the pressure. I took this further to create my device which was a foot pedal mechanism, which tilted you forward and a hand pad which you pressed down into to release a lemon fragrance.
I shan’t bore you with any more than that; it was a whimsical project, heavily based on the ‘body’ and the emotional qualities that accompany movement. We even had a choreographer come in...
Which has all made us think; “this is not what I expected to be doing.” We expected to be drawing buildings and learning of the inner workings of walls, not thinking about concepts and ‘feeling’ ideas.
I think this is a good thing. As the saying goes, “form follows function”, but what if we looked at how things affect us before thinking of build cost and technicalities? How the proportions of a room affect our mood, how social situations call for architectural help... surely the built environment would be a better place.
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| A great use of the deserted Dulux building |
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| My daily walk; beautiful bit of plymplom |
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| The charity shop I volunteer in got a psychedelic makeover |
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| A short trip home included baking a cake... |
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| ... and seeing my beautiful dogs (and the family of course!) |
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| Model showing the travels around the kitchen |
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| A bit of festive procrastination |
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| exploring tilt and pressure |
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| a mock up model |
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| buffet at the charity shop christmas do |
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| demo of my final device. |
