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Learn to love Premiere Pro (Or not...) Regardless of your relationship status with Adobe's editing software, today we spent some time in a media suite in Chatham collating our videos and editing them into our own mini documentaries. Next tram to media city please!

12/05/14
Eric, our collaborator from Arup, showing us some projects.

Let's film! The second day saw us film in Piccadilly Gardens, which was quite fascinating; this really allowed me to capture people in everyday circumstance, moving through transient space.

The first day of events saw us sketching with Simone Ridyard and the Urban Sketchers at Manchester Library After giving us a talk in the morning, Simone set us free to wreak havoc in the library and observe, watch, and absorb the activities happening there. Here I explored my fascination with people and the way that they interact with space; I find this particularly exciting!

Our app is finally done!!! Today we could play around with the app that includes all the information that we have gathered over the past few days. So exciting and interesting !!

The view from the original 14th C Altar just catches the light through the floating hats.

DAY 7 // We carried our shelters over to All Saints park to ask passers by to try and erect the shelter without any instructions.

Today we learned how to use Salad Game, which allows you to create simple games in a very easy way. The idea was to explore new programs and ideas that will be useful in the future. It helped us understand the process of making an app and how to apply rules with the "If...Else" method.

All hands on deck to 'fluff' the hats and hang the strings, feeling privileged to work on such a beautiful site.

DAY 6 // The final 1:1 scale shelter erected. Thought the outcome was great even though we have a few structural and joint issues!!

Nathan threads the net. Built to catch Herring, it will hold up thousands of paper hats.

Bench in chosen site ready for use!

Event 3 - Building the sustainable micro-home

Testing the bench.

The corn flour mixture was added to the hydraulics.

DAY 6 // We finished the net for our final shelter design. This is the net before it is folded at 1:1 scale.

Event 3 - Journey to site

Assembly of bench, connecting the hydraulics to the frame.

Printed films

The weights for the hydraulics were produced using plastic bottles filled with sand connected to ropes which link as the seat of the bench.

Learning how to use the exposure developer

school of art

The frame of the bench was produced from wood.

storyboard lecture

A logo was produced for the bench consisting of an hourglass and the slogan "Relieve Your Tension".

The layered story of Manchester's Town Hall.

Ben doing his thing

Took hours to print but this is a proposal from one of the other students.

The Pirate Cove with every crew's final treasure maps ready for presentations.

3D Printer doing its thing

Prototypes were produced to test the hydraulics behind the tension of the bench.

Models to test different ideas.

Day 5: Collecting unused materials around the campus and re-appropriating them for our final output

Welcome to St Marys Church Stockport.

Event 9 - installation

All of the data we have been gathering, compiled together in the app

The first stage was to brainstorm methods of removing an individual from the bench in a set period of time.

Running the app. Hip Hip Horray!

Evening light.

Finishing off our model...

The overall analysis of the area that depicts the opportunities of green space and unnecessary carparks and the constrains of houses with tall fences

And on the third day of building, the installation was completed!

Final presentation

Mimicking apexes

Floating hats installation

Flemish bond brickwork at the Carmalite Monastary

site visit: at Sale, there are lots of alleyways and tall fences. The use of the core area is very limited

Examining the finer points of pre cast brick lintels at the Carmalite Monastary with Austin Smith Lord

Final model

We looked at the film Bladerunner and used it as a small case study to see how signage could be installed and depicted in the not too distant future.

This diagram was used to explain how Dual Image Screens function.
A parallax barrier is placed in front of an LED or LCD screen. This barrier blocks half of the pixels on the screen depending on what angle you look at it from. This allows two separate images to be displayed on the screen. One image for the person on the left, one image for the person on the right.

This means that you are able to broadcast twice as many adverts as you could before while still using the same amount of surface area as before

Building Day: St Marys Church, Stockport.
The growing installation.

Two black and white images of a street less than 20 metres away from the main heart of Chinatown. The image on the left is the original, while the image on the right shows how adding a few signs using tracing paper can really change the character of a place.

It also allows you to visualise how different the streets around Chinatown really are.

Another sketch showing how adding colour really changes and alters the feel and character of an area.

Session 6
We finished the installation, cleaned the area, and photographed the reactions of the people.

We had to look at how changes in population would change how people advertise in Chinatown. More people would create a larger audience to advertise a product or service to.

DAY 5: We threaded the hats together attaching a curtain hook to each strand.

After adding the mixture in order to make the bench function.

The cornflour mixture!

Testing the bench before the cornflour mixture was added.

DAY 6: Testing the net. We hung a section of the hats onto the net whilst holding it in tension.

Stencils for the bench.

A prototype of the idea behind 'The Custard Bench'.

The first day the group met we filled a wall with ideas for the bench.

Session 5
We started working on our instalations in Chatham.

Day 5- The day was spent finalising ideas and sketching ready for the exhibition. I particularly focused to link my urban intervention to the vibrant feel of the Northern Quarter.

Day 6- Our work was displayed in the Architecture building for people to view

Session 4
We found out that our collaborators need a permssion from their supervisors to use the train station so we modified our project and decided to install it on the concrete walls on either side of the lifts on the 8th floor in Chatham. The new idea was to create 3D tetris design.

The map of the site shows some of our initial thoughts and ideas towards the site. Indicating some of the ideas, the map shows: the idea for botanical cladding along fences and houses that do not overlook the site, a 'yellow brick road' concept whereby altering the pathway and unifying the site then it will attract more residents to the site and seating spaces that allow for social interaction.

Day 2- The sketching started with the urban sketchers around the central library

The theme throughout our task is social cohesion. We identified public area, semi public area and private area to look at the relationships

Working at speed to get all the clouds up before the scaffolding was removed. The lights, sound and project complete.

Finally, as the day comes to a close, the net is complete. Decisions on the arrangement of the clouds are made for the following day.

Day 4- Our first visit to both the sites in the northern quarter, we spent our day sketching until the rain started.

Hats, more hats and hangers. Scaffolding and a full team working their way across the net with careful precision to create the perfect installation.

Day 3- We were given our brief and tutorial on urban intervention

Day 1- Inspiration talk from Urban sketcher Simone Ridyard. The photograph shows a piece taken from her sketch book.

Initial idea of plan of our chosen area