Curtain project

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Experiment 6

Curtain project

Description:

Going by one of the three points of attraction: Unusual happens to be one of them for attracting attention. Our idea of something unusual would be to place a strange object in a place that may not have these sorts of visuals in the chosen environment, which happens to be in the city. This strange object is a bright orange curtain, which may contain messages behind it, to either get direct attention, or even intrigue people to look behind it.

Aim: 

As some of our past experiment have involved slight twists of usual visual language “piano warning sign”, we wanted to try and see if we could make something a bit strange that may get peoples attention, attempt to distract them from the heavy artillery of public media.

Curtain Placement 1:

City: Bouke street and russle street, 

Location: On a construction fence, aside of the walkway

 

Curtain Placement 2:

City: Southbank

Location: On a wooden fence, not near any other visual distractions, next the river.

 

 

 

 

 

Method:

We recorded the information into three categories, separated into three, 

5 minutes segments

Seen but kept waking past – male/female

Stopped to look – male/female

Not looked – male/female

 

Result:

City Placement

• The placement of the curtain in the central part of the city did not get much attention.

• People generally either walk straight past it,

• See it and ignore it,

• Glance and point and it.

• 70% of people don’t seem to even acknowledge it.

 

Riverside placement

• More then half the people walking past it has looked in the direction

• More females seemed to have looked at it

• A small amount of people, (mainly couples) had actually stopped to look and see if there was anything behind the curtain. (in first placement, we didn’t put anything behind it.)

Conclusion

Results were similar to the sign project, where the placement of the object in the busy parts of the city, were mainly ignored. Changing the placement to a place with less visual clutter seems to gain more attention.

This time with an added element of intrigue by placing something behind the curtain, more people had also seemed to have looked then before. People actually had some level of wanting to be involved with the object, which is a good sign for our research.

lecture: What is a community?

Community is a group of people gathering around a focus, idea, game, religion, growing food.

Communities are those that share their experiences together, that live on common ground, share the same problems, and will do things together to create solutions.

The communities we create now will only become beneficial for us in the future, as the more people you have focused on similar ideas, the better the living situations will be within these communities. 

As we are moving ever closer to global warming, things will change dramatically for us. We will need to create better systems of growing food, saving water, trading, saving the energy we have. The ideas of permaculture could very well help us move in this direction of sustainability. Permaculture is a design system which creates better ways to  manage our bad consumer systems, and make them into things which work under more natural systems.

We have the potential to turn rubbish tips, into areas where food could be grown. Just think of any place which is currently not being using for anything positive, like an area that slopes down, for when it may rain, all the water would fall into the bottom ends of the slope to trap the water; a perfect place to grow food.

Like i had mentioned in the my previous lecture notes on cuba; perhaps the only way for us to be self sustainable, is to have everything taken from us, and to start from scratch.




1-Natures food growth patterns go by its seasons, where certain foods will grow naturally. But due to our consuming habits, we force nature to grow things all year round, which doesn’t do any good for the food or the environment.

2-We have the potential to turn anyplace, that is currently somewhat wasteful, into a place that could provide food or other resources.

3-If we changed the way we consume, and learned to consumer allot less, countries wouldn’t need to build massive unsustainable power stations in order to provide the things we need to live.

 

Lecture: Theory and Explanation

This lecture by Keith Robertson is about the construction of theory and philosophy, and how these can evaluate and distinguish the past and present. 

“Theory= a set of facts, propositions, or principles analysed in their relation to one another and used used in science to explain ideas and concepts”

Theory is driven by Philosophy, where theory isn’t necessarily the truth, it is an argument, thats tries to take up multiple angles on things to explain situations.

Micheal Foucault – a french theorist who studies many areas, one was “Madness and Civilization”

Some sketches bellow describe some of his ideas, and focuses.

 

1-Insanity in old times was looked upon as something unique, and people seemed to look at it as a good phenomenon, now insanity is something thats stigmatised.

2- Although society’s ideas were that punishing people would return them to “the norm”, Foucault’s ideas of discipline and punish were that due to the general thinking of these people, they would generally not change.

3-Out of any place in the world, America has the most people in prison.