2 of the 4th year groups presented and then I was the third to present and I felt hugely intimidated as they had both had their physical testing installations there to show and I was more or less just giving a power point presentation. I felt like it was really hard to show my process any other way though as a lot of what I've done over the past 3 weeks has been developmental thinking and research, thinking and research, and then that beanbag testing in the last week.
I feel comfortable with what I presented however and have summarised the feedback:
- It was suggested that I look into the psychology of people's need to make spaces their own.
- How do you empower people to feel like they are allowed to engage with and move things?
- Keep challenging people, by having things change on them
- Could I focus more on the beanbags and forget the structural work I've done to make more of an interesting/unique beanbag installation?
- The current structure I've drawn up is almost a juxtaposition - by putting the tree in the middle you are blocking conversation, and the hard rigid structure opposes what I'm trying to do introducing the soft cushioning beanbags.
- Could I separate the tree and the boxes?
- Is there then a cultural issue with a tree being movable? Separating the roots from the Earth??
- If your thinking about the tree acting as shade - why does it have to be a tree??
- There are lots of opportunities from the beanbag
- different colours, textures, shapes (could these be used to reflect Wellington more?)
- what would the beanbags be like at night? glow in the dark??
- have a look at the very popular at the moment "air sacks"
- people started coming up with crazy ideas like how the beanbags could change with heat, or time of day etc.
Also - I had to look up the term serendipity as Euan uses it continuously!
Serendipity:
the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way
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