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Session 6:
An image of one of the final interventions, the bus swing; a fun and creative reuse of an everyday space. Well done to all the students in event 11, you produced some great work!

Biospheric Foundation Visit/ The Founder, Vincent Walsh, explaining the reed beds process

Biospheric Foundation visit/ Sustainable Facade Strategy Analysis

First Session/ introduction/ CIA approach/ About Whithington Baths (with Dominic Sagar)

Day 6 - Installed our work and observed the public's reaction to it.
[Image: the installation in use: one the three swings installed on the bus stops outside All Saints Park]

Day 5 - Brought in reclaimed materials and began developing ideas for a final, public installation.
[Image: Using a blowtorch to create textures in wood, as inspired by our collaborator]

The final presentation was essential as it gave us a opportunity to receive crucial feedback which was given by the event leaders, David and Ed.

I found the whole event advantageous as it made me look how to design in a different way. Looking at ecological values and how we can improve them within architecture. Revolving the project around China Town brings culture into the concept also and is a great space in the city to study. In all an interesting event.

Event 00 [I Was Here] Using the dark room to develop our pictures.

We went to Sale waterpark to test if our prototype models floated. They did!

Our sound being 3D printed...

Construction: In the workshop, making the counter weights for the hydraulic system. Also to the framework we added more wooden panels and the logo for the bench.

Unfortunately our collaborator Transport for Greater Manchester were unable to host the site due to not having time for granting the particular permissions so our final session consisted of applying our proposals in to the eightth floor of studio. We set up a screen that utilised existing frame and then used a halogen light for illumination. The overall effect worked well as shown with myself passing through the light, The installation was left out throughout the day and we noticed people using the shadows as we designed.

This was our exhibition for all the proposals for the urban intervention for both sites one and two produced by the events participants from year 1 and year 2.

On the last season of the event, we were all editing and finalising our process sheet before exhibition.

This was my final process sheet for my proposal of the intervention for site two.

Session five included making a scale model of our proposal to give a feel for how the installation would affect the site. We made a model of the site out of cardboard, and used a mobile phone to illuminate people and shapes to create interesting colourful shadows and effects.

Session four was spent refining our design, and sourcing a digital projector. We set up the projector in a dark room where we could limit the amount of light being let into the room, we then created images that would be suitable to be projected on to the site. We then tested by walking past, interrupting the light and creating a shadow on to the wall, creating silhouettes in the process.

Using my drawing I produced my final perspective, which included my intervention on site. My intervention is simply installing eight empty wall panels on site to allow artists and other people to gather to produce art exhibitions and drawings for people to view and appreciate.

This is another perspective that I produced for my intervetion, this was a live sketch.

Once I chose my site, I produced a live sketch to be used for my perspective of the intervention.

I chose the first site because looking at the surrounding the walled had graffiti and beautiful art works; I wanted to include it in the intervention which I wanted to design for that area.

On Monday 12th in the second seasons, we visited two of the chosen site for our project and we had to decided which one to work on.

This is one of my sketches that I produce d in the Central Library.

In the second season of the event, we went to the Centrals Library to produce some live sketches. It allowed me to work on a skill that I had not touched on before; I am looking forward to doing more live sketches.

fabricating

shelter talk

modern vs classic

caught some attentions

The first two seasons of the event were positively interesting because we got introduced into the project and it we were taken to the Central Library.

have fun shooting

final day ...

we hung up photos of our processes and work over the last 2 weeks in the all saints park, while talking about what we have learnt. Then we ate excellent tasting brownies!

somehow , we are trying to create a mixture of scarf and umbrella

yellow raincoat , double protection from rain

a pure vision

lay down position of our shelter

My comic book of the process and development of Digital Fabri-Cast

sheltering in urban context

ready for the rain

final session, we looked at each groups' installations into the mmu campus while they presented the ideas and themes behind their work. Our group created a tree house out of scraps of wood we found in the workshops, as on of the branches was broken - name idea: "Protect the tree", says the Wood.

Reinterpretations // Light & Pattern

Spot the Net!

Rope through net / Stockport

Preparing the timber / Stockport

Composition // Reflection

Preparing the straps / Stockport

Preparing the net / Stockport

TREVOR STEVENSON

quick sketches of a site

We painted our cast bright blue so it could stand out once re-appropriated into the site. The rainy Manchester weather made it stand out all the more.

TREVOR STEVENSON

Experimenting with montage to depict movement

TREVOR STEVENSON

Photographing and sketching of a site.

TREVOR STEVENSON

Day filming around Piccadilly and Market Street, before editing into a short film describing how the area is used almost like tunnel to people ignoring the surroundings just walking fast to their destination.

guerrilla gardening. Our groups' theme was litter and sustainability. We created a litter Haven for 1:50 and 1:100 occupants directly in front of a bin that had the words "sustainable planet" on it.

TREVOR STEVENSON

Comic books describing narrative within a site

Day 05//Starting from a collection of scrap objects, we were given the challenge of creating a human scale installation for the MMU Campus. The materials led us to create a large bird feeder and wind chime to be hung from a tree in All Saints Park, colourful enough to be enjoyed by both birds and pedestrians.

TREVOR STEVENSON

Sketching Central Library

Day 06//Photos from previous work carried out during the events program was displayed in an outdoor exhibition in All Saints Park.

The image presents the process for the final output, showing how some of the major locations were planned before the finishing touches.

Editing the footage taken in Picaddilly area to make a short film

13/05/2014

With the feedback the group and I went away and drew up the developed design. The comments from the event leaders was valuable and helped us understand China Town more.

'Tangible sound' brought back to the site where it was recorded from.

08/05/2014

With our idea in mind and a short amount of time we started to build a 3D model to easily convey our ideas.

Taking this proposal and our idea to tutorials we received great feedback with how to improve our design and to show more of our research to back up our concept

06/05/2014 Presentation & Field Survey

David Hainley gave a presentation on the research him and his student from China had found. In all the research was about the effects of climate change upon China. Ways that the Chinese government tried to withstand climate change were impressive.

During the field survey I tried to take inspiration from the presentation and try and improve China Town in an ecological way. Admiring the restaurants and shops I noticed back streets that were full of litter. I noticed it was mainly food waist. Which can lead to rats. Therefore my group and I came up with a proposal of using the waste food as compost to create a park and soil to plant.

event 10 - day 6 - working on final output
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I spent morning in NQ taking footage for my short movie.

07/05/2014

Between the tutorial and last meet up we started to sketch up our proposal and work out problems with heights, transport of waste, run off etc.

event 10 - day 5 - creative writing

We had to write a story based on the comic story line from the day before.

event 10 - day 4 - architectural narrative and comic making

We went around NQ speaking with people who work or live there. After lunch we had lecture about comic making and we had to draw a comic inspired by people we met that day.

A brief look at the app in development with property prices mapped onto the Manchester city model from Arup.

In this session we participated in a series of experiments to understand the concepts of gamification and game design. Specifically we played a game where we each received a rule that reacts to the physical environment around us using the if/else statement.

Final Print Ready

Holding Sound

To being to put our data sets into a single app/game, each group mapped the geolocations of our data onto a single map so that we can see where they overlapped, or where correlations or links might occur.

Presentations.

Presentations.

Since data obtained from the census was secondary (thus unreliable), my group went out and gathered primary data from within Oxford Road.

In order to make comparisons with our data, we selected several locations spread across the length of the Oxford Road corridor and interviewed a total of 250 people. Some of the questions we devised were so that we could obtain data not included in the census - e.g. their area of residence in Manchester. This would allow us to link our data to locations outside of the corridor. Above shows the data of 'other languages spoken' mapped as a percentage bar chart at their specific location.

We also managed to get a set of data on the nationalities of students in the University of Manchester, but these were omitted later on as they were secondary.

Presentations.

Installing our final piece into All Saints Park.

Presentations.

Ready to go.

In the second session Ulysses gave us a brief presentation on the spatialization of data i.e. mapping and the consequences of this on design. Different methods of mapping data such as Nolli maps, mindmaps and etc are introduced.

Day 5: Using found objects and re-appropriating them to create a bird feeder with wind chimes and a viewing point.