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DROPPING ANCHOR
With the treasure maps finished the crew construct the Pirate Galle(r)y for displayin' their work, lest other foolhardy sea-rats be wishin' to follow in our footsteps.

AMAZING SKETCHES OF THE CENTRAL LIBRARY.

Crew-member Giwrgos mans the bow

PIRATE GALLE(R)Y
Havin' mapped the spaces where the treasure be buried, the crew decide on the layout of their pirate galle(r)y

A day with Simone Ridyard( Manchester Urbansketcher).

Captain Shivers be assitin' his crew member Heelhicker-Hewes in the development of her treasure map

TREASURE MAPPING
Captains Salty and Shivers impart some pearls on wisdom to the crew regardin' the creation o' maps

Attaching the last few hooks to strings of hats.

Day 5: Pieces were cut for the frames used for the roof and the base. After all the pieces are made, all that is left is the clearing of the site and the assemblage on site.

Day 4: After cutting some of the pieces down into half pieces and 3/4 pieces we combined them together to form what the final design is going to look like.

Today we went to B&Q to get the materials for the model. This is how architects fit 3 meters pipes on a bus.

Exhibition day! After finishing up and printing our treasure maps, we turned our studio space into a pirate galle(r)y. Our collaborators joined us again for a pirate review of the outputs. In the end we all salied away from the port of Chatham and now we are back to our usual pirate activities (known to some as "studio work").
Mad Jenny Kidd

Day 6 / Mount boards completed for the exhibition at the Grumpy city office.

Day 6 / Final product

Fighting with the rain to get the painting done_1205

Final render perspective to be added in our presentation book

Building dens with the children! Exciting day for us and for the children!

Building dens with the children!

Building dens with the children!

Mr and Mrs Gaskell

Interpreting sculptures and Manchester Art Gallery

Sketching the chosen site, inserting an urban intervention into the drawing

Air propulsion calculated and concept model tested we concluded:
FAN + FEATHERS = MESS

Day 2: Receiving the brief for the urban infill section of the events program from our coordinators.

Children were presented with the idea of aliens!
They have loved it !

Day 3: Sketching ideas for the urban infill session on site in the Northern Quarter.

Original concept for a air propelled screen of feathers :)

Finished! temporary emergency shelter ready to be tested out tomorrow.

Constructing the cardboard panels of our emergency shelter.

After a few days of welding, filing, sawing and gluing our model is starting to take shape.

The finished drawing, pizza included

The beginning of my perspective drawing for our final outputs, before we build the pizza oven in the following weeks

Afterwards we arranged to use the pallets on site for our seating

Presenting our work last week to the client

Experiment of folding and unfolding lightweight shelter.

Nice bit of welding by Dan. Frame is looking great. Lets hope it floats!

Final Day - Freshly made churros for George's birthday and everyone is singing jolly sea shantys. Exhibiting everyones maps including my film. Really enjoyed working with the 5th years and other landlubbers on what's been a great event this year.

Students measured and cut out the cardboard to form a prototype. Each component is in the same size for quick assembling.

We did a site visit with Heather from Irwell Valley Housing and some of the local residents. This gave the students some ideas about the problems and key issues of the estate.

The transformation of our rucksack in context.

Our finished backpack.

We asked the students to produce one annotated drawing, highlighting some important features, emotions, ... they picked up during site visit. Artist Jan Rothuizen was given as a precedent.

Session 7: Finishing up final presentation drawings in studio and finalising the measurements of the planters for context.

Lecture Mark Murphy on 'Place and Thinking'

exploring design

Group discussion on precedents Neighbourhoods

Site Visit at Sale West

Presentation in the community centre

final presentation drawing of the pizza oven. Block Plan

Since our story had a group narrative it wasn't easy trying to add onto the story when it got to our individual tasks. I chose to do a flashback concerning our arrival to Manchester.
'A strange image appeared on our ship's reflection; a castle. After a while we noticed we were getting closer to another image, a surreal image, not of this world. It was as if we were pulled inside it like a small boat in a dock.'
Andrea 'The Fox' Piers

Lots of the events groups were in the workshop today, we documented their various manufacturing processes.

We played around with the Pentax cameras learning how to use the light reader to judge the appropriate shutter speed and aperture.

Preparation for 3D printing of our audio sculpture.

The children were all so excited to talk about their den creations and ask each other questions about them.

6/5/14 : Explaining the task brief to the participants and a short presentation on the 'Series of Urban Intervention'.

30/4/14: Live sketching activity at Manchester Central Library - in collaboration with Manchester Urban Sketching group.

Day 6: Component Combination

PLACES (People, Location, Architecture, Community, Environment, Sentiment) our collaborators, helped us understand and prepare us for working with children. We were shown previous projects that they had undertaken in Manchester and explained how we could help the children explore their creative side by creative a narration and encouraging them to experiment and involve their different sense in the project.

Day 5: The final component and mould.

In preparation for the building of the dens, we created some weird and wonderful creations that could be used as a source of inspiration for the children who could use our creations to either incorporate into their dens or just use as a tool to understand how different components could be attached together.

Day 6: The first 3d printed mould.

Day 6: Arch Suport making

Day 6: Test mould with alginate

Day 5: We all brought in objects that we had found over the weekend, and re-appropriated their use by making new objects from them. We made a hanging bird feeder and wind chime from a plastic bucket and a lamp.

Uses.

The building of the dens showed how the children learnt to interact with the space available to them but it also showed us how they appropriated the space and created an identity to the place. At the presentation given to us by the collaborators we were told that the identity of a place comes from the quality and intensity of the sensory links. Therefore by building, choosing the design, choosing what materials would be used the children involved all their senses allowing them to give a meaning to the place that they created.

Day 4: We made miniature scenes in the MMU campus. Our scene was named "Swan Lake" and was made using foliage from All Saints park and origami paper swans.

site sketch today for my "urban infill" intervention

Building the base of the microshelter and discussing about more bracing.

Using waste boards found in MMU Waste area for the roof. Ripping off the rough felt, and taking out the used waste tacks to use for the roof of our microshelter.

At our presentation given to us by PLACES, an organisation dedicated to working on projects with children we were told that "we work and learn from the children". This experience would be a "creative immersion for the children" and indeed we saw this as they drew and built the different dens. As one of the collaborators said "this is how children see the world and make it their own".

12th May- Team got together to head to the workshop to cut pieces for the roof frame. Components were screwed together. Building the roof of micro-shelter.

I believe that allowing the children to invent their own stories about the dens surrounding the alien theme brought something to us students as well. Indeed we learnt that there are no boundaries to our creativity. So many different ideas sprouted from a common theme and it was interesting to see how different students could respond to a same subject. I learnt that it is interesting to think outside the box as many children did!

Drawing on the rooftop allowed the children to show their creative side. The drawings led to the invention of crazy stories following our alien theme. The children loved giving names and magical powers to their aliens!

The children loved drawing with the chalk, loved getting their involved in the drawings by using their hands and sometimes even their clothes! Using different color chalks they created wild and wondrous stories about their dens.

Today we went through the photos and films that were taken over the event and picked out the best to use in the brochure.

Showing the children from the school around university was an experience in itself. Who knew that wind coming from air-vents or the air-conditioning by the doors could be entertaining? They loved the different textures and were curious about everything.

Today we finished the model and approved that it folds up, ready to test it on wednesday in Sale Water Park where we will finish assembling it.

DAY 4 // We had to cut out 20 panels for our design and the joined these panels together using bulldog clips and staples.

DAY 4 // we began building our 1:1 shelter designs. The design can fold out easily and then expand to create the shelter.

We explained that they would be on a mission to build a hidden city to protect them from aliens.