Tate Britain has come up with a cool way to address the modern day problem of loneliness in cities through a community garden installation titled A common ground designed by social arts practice, Something and son. The garden features fountain sculptures with voice recognition sensors is designed to instigate sociability – talking sets the fountains to...
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Taking a somewhat tedious task and turning it into a enjoyable moment while cutting up the sticker icons to be placed on the dial for our School Of Metarules gaming project is exactly what led to the discovery of these unexpected and delightful geometric shapes. When rearranged, they seemed to form most interesting...
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LARP a type of role-playing game in which participants physically act out scenarios, typically using costumes and props. SORD School Of Reality Design The freedom allowed to us by the SORD brief was both exciting and daunting, I recall having no clue where to start as a point of interest and research. Luckily, now...
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As an experiment on mobility and understanding our place in our physio-contextual surrounding, we were given these instructions and set out. The images here tell the story of our journey. The calming nature of free-walking was unexpected and highly insightful, I recommend it. Captured in photograph are the thoughts, conversations, giggles and dead ends....
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One of the last activities of the clothing distribution cycle, the giving away of clothing, getting rid of old style, hand me down, passing on; Second hand clothing. I was interested to know more about how this process works here in London in contrast to Kampala; my home country. The investigation started at the...
Continue readingMANIFESTO_Draft2 – Through [the] fabric
The ideas reflected in this manifesto relate back to the question posed to us in the weeks before breaking off for the holidays; what role do you want to have in the future regarding design. It had to be a practical aspiration so as to step out of ambiguity and assist in the construction...
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SCHOOL OF REALITY DESIGN – DAY 1 Notes to self: I should probably say school of unreality as the core of this project is to imagine an entirely new reality of the learning institution at Goldsmiths University. If reality is created , how do we go about designing this new school; what do...
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On the way to watch purple at the Barbican by John Akomfrah, I noticed a phrase on the deck before boarding the train “SORRY, a hundred years old but still too daring today. #ToArtItsFreedom”. This is a perfect starting point in tackling any controversial topic today and climate change, is no exception. There is...
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An even higher level of respect for garment makers as I take apart my corset. Most females around the world have one and may use it to materialise a point of view, an emotion or fantasy. It is almost hard to believe that these were once tools of subjugation and domination. As an exercise...
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The correlation between architecture and fashion has long since been a core interest of mine. In a shared session with the spaces and participation studio and ours for the masters in design I am currently perusing at goldsmiths, to develop our fashion system maps, we were tasked to create a mind...
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