#whitiwhiti korero

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hero images

[erinm-spatial]

Blur Building - Diller Scofidio + Renfro

[spatialdesign-level3]

WEEK 1

Potential text that I could use for this project. I am really interested in the idea of encouraging people to read more for pleasure and I think that designing a space that is influences this theme on my audience would be an interesting project and initiate some interesting interventions and design choices.

[sinbad454]

Whitiwhiti Korero - Rescheduled Presentation with Jo

Due to feeling a little unwell, I rescheduled my presentation to wk 6.

Feedback on current route:

Jo understood what I was talking about and where I was going.

Use the Kenya Hara glass/dish idea

It’s very important that I actually articulate exactly what i’m doing and play to my own brief.

That what i’m doing sounds very ‘designer as author’ and speculative. (Find out what designer as author means)

How do I see this, what is the specific type of publication that I’m wanting to make. Where do I see the book being encountered. gallery? book store?

Current illustration idea of the veil isn’t successful, as they block out the in-between rather than highlight it. (fig. 1 Experiments side).

Do some literal explorations first.

Less about the form, and more about the boundary the binary the spectrum... But I also don’t feel like i’m trying to uncover the exact boundary point.

So I need to take all of this, and explore, visualise and conceptualise. I’ll be looking at the binary spectrum predicament through Hara’s Glass/Dish distinction. As a way to exemplify what i’m trying to say. And I actually need to fully say it and articulate it. Some ideas I have right are to sketch the in-between zones of the glass/dish. What could it look like? How could I visualise this.

[hygienicutopia]

week 5 whitiwhiti korero feedback - student respondent & email from lee jensen. good practise in speaking/presenting - was not confident speaking to the work though

[kiplingwwk]

Week One Class One 25/02/2020

WhitiWhiti Korero Assignment 1.

-Go Beneath the Surface

-Underlying questions of worldview

-transformative learning > Through Spatial Design

-Challenge the Normal, burn the cities, do the crimes.

Whitiwhiti Korero is the process of developing discourse through the exchange of verbal ideas sparking a generation of discussion.

This includes the establishment and negotiation of positions and discourse to establish a kaupapa and work towards an outcome.

-Explore the experience of the world

-Reveal

-shape a mediation between environment and body

-small scale spatial intervention

-develop a body of experimental work

-generate discussion, spark interest, provide insight. 

You are asked to present a series of spatial Interventions informed by your choice of text and experimental workings. This is to be contained within a cellular space no larger than 8 x 4 metres (vertical? Horizontal ….) (Site to be confirmed) You will need to conduct a thorough site analysis as this will be your chosen site moving into project 2.

On looking - Eleven Walks with expert Eyes - Alexandra Horowitz

Part 1

Develop 3 Concepts in relation to space.

Part 2

Develop Concept and physical scale prototype

Giant Paper Book

Moving Mountain

[kate-spatial2019]

semester 1

Framework:

Whitiwhiti korero, is the process of developing discourse through the verbal exchange of ideas; it suggests the sparking or generation of discussion.

Basic brief outline;

Small scale site specific spatial intervention that mediates between body and site

How do people talk to the site, how are they connected?

weeks 1-3; 

Follow the line pick a site 

Site analysis, responses and concept development. 

Series of responses

3 concepts.

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SWIS 2nd Visit - Response and reflection

The activity worked really well with the students. They were really engaged with the activity and provided a lot of valuable information. This activity also facilitated the concept of Whitiwhiti Korero. Through this activity the kids seemed to go back and forth in conversation talking about bizarre theories of black holes sucking them up, or possibly getting struck by lightning in a classroom. Even though I had explained the concept that this would be augmented or virtual they were always considering factors beyond the surface level.

This was a big turning point in my project, for me the conversation between me and the students was far more valuable than the work they provided. Not to say it was bad work at all because it was amazing. Although I think this is when I realised how creative and free thinking the students were. Although I had concepts that facilitating learning I never had one that facilitating creativity. My project changed from wanting to make something interactive for the kids, to making something that stimulated and expanded on there creativity.

[gstokes-scape]

Design Studio IIIA – Whitiwhiti Korero 2017

[awarenessofspace]

test renders

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The surface [of the earth] is carved into watersheds - a kind of familial branching, a chart of relationships, and a definition of place. The watershed is the first and the last nation whose boundaries, though subtly shifting, are unarguable... For the wasteland, cities and dams are ephemeral and of no more account than a boulder that falls in the river or a landslide that temporarily alters the channel. The water will always be there and it will always find its way down.

Gary Snider

Stewart Howe, Kathleen. “Basia Irland, Archivist of Waters”. Water Library, by Basia Irland, University of New Mexico Press, 2007, p 3.

[spatialdesign-level3]

WEEK 1

Collection of notes taken in class today for our first lesson. Introduced to the brief and thinking about potential texts I could reference for this project.

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wireframe detail of the base

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base detail - render

These concrete blocks that the fence is set into, weights the structure down, so it doesn’t topple over when it’s pushed.