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urban farmers
by anne muschik, hayley tait, iris arnold & ryla jakelski an urban farming community, whereby one can learn the entire food process from seed to the food on their plate and which would then become a platform for events. ‘activating’ … Continue reading
Posted in 00_final projects, Anne Muschik, Hayley Tait, Iris Arnold, Ryla Jakelski
Tagged compost, events, gardening, kitchen, scaffolding
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Pimping the laneway – work in progress…
Quick response codes are matrix barcodes which, when photographed using a smartphone application, lead the user directly to a specific website based on the individual code. They can be made up simply as a 2D surface, with paint or drawing, … Continue reading
Posted in 06_week 11 tutorial, Anne Muschik, Hayley Tait, Iris Arnold, Ryla Jakelski
Tagged qr-code, wk 11, work in progress
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Pimp your laneway
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Posted in 05_week 10 spatial ideas, Anne Muschik, Hayley Tait, Iris Arnold, Ryla Jakelski
Tagged activating, laneway, pimp
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Fisheye Walk
One method of recording uses the ‘fisheye’ lense. It is a useful tool, especially when concerning skateboarding, which allows one to capture much wider view than usual. A focus is still apparent, however there is also a wider context in … Continue reading
Posted in 04_technology, Anne Muschik, Hayley Tait, Iris Arnold, Ryla Jakelski
Tagged fisheye, melbourne central, observations
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It’s time for a boost!
midsemester review on Prezi Due to my observations, interactions and occupations in public space in recent weeks I learned a lot about the potential of public space and its dysfunction at the moment. We live with millions of people … Continue reading
Posted in 04_mid-semester reflection, Iris Arnold
Tagged DIY, extension of collective space, interaction
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Redfern Monster
When thinking about how we could claim the city, we wanted to create something that represented what would happen when the owner placed their previous belongings out on the street and if it is there for the public to use, … Continue reading
Posted in Anne Muschik, Hayley McCunn, installation, Iris Arnold
Tagged recycling, redfern monster, tracing
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closed for cleaning!
With our occupation project we tried as a small group of four to change the way the escalators are used in Melbourne Central. Two go up – one goes down. But we – just for fun – wanted to block … Continue reading
Posted in 02_occupation, Anne Muschik, Hayley McCunn, Iris Arnold, Ping Yan, Ryla Jakelski
Tagged acceptance, escalator, wet floor
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fisheye walk
Posted in 04_technology, Anne Muschik, Hayley Tait, Iris Arnold, Ryla Jakelski
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The power of the internet
In technology class on Friday we talked about the internet as a possibility to inform, to organize or to tell ones opinion. Today ‘everyone is a cyberterrorist’ – the recent events in Egypt show that the internet has great power … Continue reading
’50 First Dates’
or ‘Speechless?’ Private Encounter from urbaninteriorstudio on Vimeo. I’m in Melbourne for nearly two months and got to know the Melbournians as very open-minded. I had a lot of short chats in the tram, supermarket or even in the sea. … Continue reading
Making sense of the nonsensical
Guy Debord and the Situationist International We discussed a group of ideas focussiong on the first four pages of the text. dictatorship: Guy Debord potentionally remodeled preexisting systems of control to convey his own ideas of society instruments: using the … Continue reading
Posted in 06_readings, Erika Wells, Freya Robinson, Hayley McCunn, Iris Arnold, Jia Kim, Yunquan Zhang
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How formal are you?
Untitled from urbaninteriorstudio on Vimeo. This video shows our observations of similar interactions between people and things in the city in a formal and informal way – get to know where and during which time people act formal and informal.
Posted in 4D observations/time, Anne Muschik, Iris Arnold
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we are all artists
After the thrilling talks to some street artists in a laneway, we cut our own stencils and went out into the city. Going around with the stencils and the water bottles made me high – my eyes turned crazy on … Continue reading
Posted in 2D explorations/surface, 4D explorations/time, Iris Arnold
Tagged stencil fading water
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increase of informal
We have chosen the following photo, because sleeping in the streets is the ultimate informal action under the topic of “claiming the city”. To ‘claim’ a public space for an action which usually takes place in an interior and which … Continue reading
Posted in 3D observations/space, Anne Muschik, Iris Arnold
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signs
I have chosen the following three pictures as examples of “claiming the city” in 2D. The three pictures have in common that they show the reaction of people towards legal signs and the resulting interaction between these two engagements with … Continue reading