Phase 4: Weeks 19-24
Define, Test and Prepare
Development & C R I T I C A L R E P O R T ! ! ! !
Weekly learning objectives
Continue with Critical Review
Contact Bike Bloc organiser
Develop more ideas for the rooms – what other items could be included; wayfinding, programme, book, film?
Look at VR options – summer rain room
Fill the mentoring gap…
Next week’s webinar needs presentation update slides to show progress – I’ll use this as a starting point for getting the project written up into enough detail to use to explain the idea to a mentor. The thing stopping me from looking for a mentor so far is that I’d nothing to tell them about, now I can reference the research and responses which help explain the project – I can make it clear for someone new to read and understand more easily.
Design Development
Notes for starters
Research…
Details of the Copenhagen COP15 summit where Bike Bloc began (I think, more research needed…)
This view of the bikes being confiscated and loaded onto the truck will work well next to the similar image from Bikes Not Bombs…
Opposite Situations?
Distributing refurbished bikes by Bikes Not Bombs
Police in Copenhagen confiscating repurposed bikes being used to protest by Bike Bloc
Bikes being re-engineered by The Bicimáquinas of Guatemala, one of the partners of Bikes Not Bombs
Re-engineered bikes to cause distraction and disruption to policing of the Copenhagen Summit
More thoughts…
Marcel Duchamp
(Looks how I felt ’til Week 16…)
Show tools in the same way?
Left: a way to feel claustrophobic?
What should the room hold?
Kindermoord: Traffic noise, heat, crowd noise. Don’t go too far with the protest theme, from reading articles and seeing photos these protests appear to have been more ‘civilised’ than Copenhagen COP15. Children were there, schools were involved and, from images found, there doesn’t seem to be a high police presence at the protests.
Copenhagen COP15: Crowd noise, police action, lights, loud music and shouting – a protest resulting in arrests. Was there any violence? Obstruction? Cold & dark?
Bikes Not Bombs – x2: Workshops, tools, background noise? How would we get across the activity in those workshops?
Exports – rows and rows of refurbished bikes, a shipping container. Metal and transport, the noise of the sea? What’s the background in the areas they transport to? Rain, heat, wildlife?
Wellbeing: Summer rain & warm breeze. Use AI to recreate the right environment? Include the physical elements within the room, the warmth and the breeze. Should the room be empty to visitors unless they get on one of the bikes?
Hijab: How to make it uncomfortable? Describe what cycling whilst wearing the hijab is like? I imagine the heat and the sound of your own breath in your ears. Shouts from bystanders and drivers as they overtake. Car horns and dust, humid or dry heat?
Slide Presentation for Webinar
Make some decisions and make things clear enough to explain the idea to someone new. Use the explanation/outline to send to possible mentor/industry feedback.
All the slides are above but in case anyone needs a download it’s here…
Ways to display?
Looking for visual examples for the ways I’m thinking of setting the rooms; screens, lights, how could it make people feel uncomfortable?
Control the temperatures and noise levels, these change as more people enter a room?
I’m still keen on massive contrasts in scale. I don’t think health and safety should be considered at this concept stage, if things were to develop then such issues would be addressed by reeling in the ideas. At this stage, the ideas need to be way over the top…
Pinterest Scrapbook: https://pin.it/2sBOjmO
VR/AR Room. Immersive Cycling
Cyclists wear headsets to replicate scenes for a completely interactive room. The only thing in there are bikes and headsets?
David Hockney – show options of the same routes in different seasons?
Four films of the same journey through the woods in each season. Uses multiple screens at slightly off speeds and position. Reminds me of the old analogue photomontages from back in the days of Blackburn college…
An alternative way to create the Duchamped tools?
The Polaroid grids are as I’ve thought of displaying #tweets over a large area (though not as a single image, just squares).
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(Just a visual – if I were to they would be the individual frames)
Reflection
Talking through the slides in the Webinar it felt like I still need to make the idea much clearer to others. As I was going through it on the night there were gaps that needed more detailed explanations.
Although each room will be individual in terms of design, there will need to be a style that ties them all together; give the event its own ID.
It feels like there’s been a lot of progress this week – actually excited about what the outcome might be (as Stuart said we would be at the Webinar). I think the next stage should be to tie down what could feature in each room. So far there’s only been a ‘kind-of-like’ idea to what will be in them.
So far there are five rooms, it might be too ambitious to show each one as complete models. At the moment I’m thinking the graphic design for each and a model for maybe two themes should be the aim.
I see some of the rooms, or some areas inside them, to be quite sparse and so might not take as long as others, the bulk of the work will be getting a 3d model done as good as I would like; ideally with a fly-through. I haven’t played with 3d for quite a while and software has changed massively since then so there’s quite a learning curve. Maybe there are editable digital mockups available?
Now I’m hoping I might be in the zone to do some essay writing…
Postscript:
Just received an email back from the people at Bike Bloc/The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination who are happy to help 🙂
