Category Archives: 01_encounter

hey! strangers

                         For the Encounter project, I choose the city circle tram as my location to do it. The reason for me to choose city circle tram is a free seviece and  it runs through the whole city area as … Continue reading

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Would you Help me?

Would you help me if I fell over near you? Would you pick up my things if I tripped and dropped them? This is a short film testing encountering with strangers and building relationships, if they would help me or … Continue reading

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no smoking

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Please teach me…

How can one encounter people? How can you engage with strangers? People are often trying to engage with you, as a passerby, in the city. However, it is often because they are trying to sell you something, gain your vote … Continue reading

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A Piece of Taste

Does mood have flavor? As an encounter project, I had the idea of exchange others’ experience and thought with a certain kind of reward. In order to make it more interesting, people were asked to tell the mood they were … Continue reading

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Elevator Interactions

      On Tuesday evening during the exhibition for 1st, 2nd and 3rd year Interior Design students, we (2nd year studio class) were asked to tell random people about our projects, however there was a catch. The catch was … Continue reading

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show your creativity

this project took place in a playground near Federation Square. the reason why I choose this location was because I could meet people from various generations. firstly I drew two lines and then other people added their own drawing to … Continue reading

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Bubble-Bubble

I tried conact with adult people but failed three times on the federation square and Swanstown st. So I thought why people didn’t react for this? it is not fun or interesting? Then I changed the target to children. In … Continue reading

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your turn.

was a project designed to bring a private encounter or interaction into the public arena. the idea of a scrabble match, a common activity within my household, with the public was a way in which to gently invite the cities … Continue reading

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Beware of Red Apple

trap from aimoli on Vimeo. Red apple, mask and circle around me crated an immaterial space through this super horrible or super exciting experience. Night helps hiding the bright side of city but extrudes dark side beyond the public so … Continue reading

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Finish My Drawing

private encounter. from Hayley Tait on Vimeo. This video captures a private encounter with the public in Melbourne CBD. I positioned myself outside the NGV holding a board with butchers paper clipped to it. I had several different coloured markers … Continue reading

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Tell me something…

Tell me something.. from Hannah Moriarty on Vimeo. From this informal urban testing I set out to engage with a stranger and to learn ONE thing. I set out with speech bubbles, markers, a blog and the most unintrusive attitude … Continue reading

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where is the love

Inspired by the issue in Japan, I started this private encounter project in order to get some support and to gain some information on how people think about it. The chosen location for this project is children garden as children could play with the paint … Continue reading

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GIMME A HUG

This encounter project was taken place in Lt Bourke St. A huge paper roll surrounded me, I draw a smile face and wrote “Give me a hug!” on it. When people passed by, I open my arms. Some people just … Continue reading

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From Melbourne to Japan

This project is based on the recent disaster in Japan. Inspired and touched by this photograph, found here I have decided to take on a hand stamp activity using acrylic paint and a piece of white cloth. This activity was taken place … Continue reading

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’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

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everybody needs somebody

everybody needs somebody from urbaninteriorstudio on Vimeo. What happens if you make physical contact with a stranger? I started the experiment. The location? An escalator! The people? – Any! I joined different people standing on the escalator and…leant against them, … Continue reading

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Encounter project

create situations in which you can encounter others, strangers, in the city. think about strategies which allow you to build relationships and/or create interactions with and between people. the idea is to test your potential to create situations and interact with … Continue reading

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