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Category Archives: Katrina Lim
Sensing Spaces
An Urban Interior Design Studio project by: … Continue reading
Going Green (Objective/Proposal)
How convinced are you to walk through an unfamiliar lane way? How do we re-navigate a person’s sense of direction into an unfamiliar space? Melbourne is famous for its lane ways and alleys that could surprise you into a new space (cafe, shops, etc). As a … Continue reading
Posted in 02_students, 06_week 11 tutorial, Heayoun Yun, Jia Kim, Katrina Lim, Varichaya Sae-Hng
Tagged objective, proposal, spaces
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Going Green
As the alley is quite dirty and smelly because of all the rubbish bins that located near Coles loading dock, we decide to put something that smell better in the area. Inspired by Ernesto Neto, we decide to use coffee … Continue reading
Posted in 06_week 11 tutorial, Heayoun Yun, Jia Kim, Katrina Lim, Varichaya Sae-Hng
Tagged attraction, green, improving
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Imaginary Space
Open publication – Free publishing – More laneway
Posted in 05_week 10 spatial ideas, Heayoun Yun, Jia Kim, Katrina Lim, Varichaya Sae-Hng
Tagged designing, imaginating, testing
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Attraction
Pinwheel. We made pinwheels using transparency papers. And then we pasted up them on the wall. And we expected that the pinwheels whirl in the wind. But it did not happen. For this reason the pinwheels are a difference in … Continue reading
Posted in Heayoun Yun, Jia Kim, Katrina Lim, Varichaya Sae-Hng
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(Lt Lonsdale)(4)
The overall objective of this documentation is to get familiarise with the place and space in Melbourne Central. After constructing a range of photos we were able to derive conclusions from the facts that were experienced while taking four different … Continue reading
Posted in 02_students, Heayoun Yun, Jia Kim, Katrina Lim, Varichaya Sae-Hng
Tagged dérive, public's behaviour, routes
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My Discovery Channel
For me, it has been the most triggering and exciting past six weeks in the process of experiencing and learning different ways to claim the city. I am able to understand better by exploring our private and personal rights as … Continue reading
Posted in 04_mid-semester reflection, Katrina Lim
Tagged discovering, Finding Inspiration, interest, learning
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Attention
As to the derive, we followed “dead” objects around the area. And under the circumstance of city, “dead objects” was given a specified defination as abandoned, disappearing or overtime elements, which has the opposite characteristic to the blossom of urbanism. … Continue reading
Posted in 03_claim the city, 05_projects, installation, Katrina Lim, Ping Yan, Varichaya Sae-Hng
Tagged atttention, dead objects, ignorance, provoke
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RE-ACTION
1. visual angle 2. walking posture 3. walking track 4. attention As a large group of 8+1, our group project consists of 4 parts mainly focusing on converting people’s daily behavior within various methods of big scale. For the first … Continue reading
Posted in 05_projects, carte blanche, Heayoun Yun, Jia Kim, Katrina Lim, Ping Yan, Varichaya Sae-Hng, Wenting Fan, Xiaoan Sun, Yan Gao, Yunquan Zhang
Tagged attention, behavoir, cooperation, curiosity, posture, track, visual angle
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Under my umbrella
Posted in 02_students, 04_technology, 3D explorations/space, Katrina Lim
Tagged 02_occupation, personal interior, team work
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Water Invasion
Using water and a sponge stick, we were given an opportunity to create a temporal tagging on the surface of the ground. I was interested in working on different surfaces & it was interesting to see how different surfaces shows … Continue reading
Posted in 02_students, 04_technology, 2D explorations/surface, 3D explorations/space, Katrina Lim
Tagged different surface, personal space, temporal
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Go fishing
Our group (Heayoun, jia, Katrina, Varichaya) visited the playground of near the federation square on last Saturday for some occupation. But we could not decide what we do during we were in this place. We playied some actions like … Continue reading
Posted in 02_occupation, Heayoun Yun, Jia Kim, Katrina Lim, Varichaya Sae-Hng
Tagged activity, fishing, playgound
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Autumn Goodbye
Creation, interaction, relation with space sums up our project about public occupation. This project was undertaken in the Western Lawn, Royal Melbourne Botanical Garden. Our project was inspired by one of Neil Bunchanan’s big art attack moments (reference below). Using the current … Continue reading
Posted in 02_occupation, 05_projects, Heayoun Yun, Jia Kim, Katrina Lim, Varichaya Sae-Hng
Tagged action, claiming space, undertake
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Lighting up
As most people would know indoor smoking are prohibited in almost every country in the world. I remember reading from an article here, outdoor smoking including public parks and beaches are officially banned in New York City. As far as I … Continue reading
Posted in 04_technology, 3D explorations/space, Katrina Lim
Tagged banned, council rules, public areas
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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
City Run
“City Run” is about wandering around the city and get people involved to film what they observe on their way one after another. As a group of three, one of us try explaining to them about the project, one take video about the … Continue reading
Posted in 03_research, 4D observations/time, Katrina Lim, Ping Yan, Varichaya Sae-Hng
Tagged City Run, maps, Psychogeography
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Publicity of public space
“The path of complete police control over all human activities and the path of infinite free creation of all human activities is one: it is the same path of modern discoveries.” Public space is not really a place where you … Continue reading
Posted in 06_readings, Anne Muschik, Katrina Lim, Varichaya Sae-Hng, Wenting Fan
Tagged governmental control, limit, regime
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Urban Make Ups
We observe how people are making clever use of the urban environment. Especially with public street art or graffiti like this, it just goes to show how these artists make use of the environment which they observe. Obviously, these people didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in 04_technology, 2D explorations/surface, Katrina Lim
Tagged ephemeral, graffiti, Stencil
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Ugly Duckling
In our second week project Claiming the City, we were asked to wander through the city and document 3D engagement with the public environment. I have chosen this informal photograph as it greatly demonstrate my perception towards the 3D engagement. This picture was … Continue reading
Posted in 3D observations/space, Katrina Lim
Tagged 3D engagement, interaction, public perception
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Stop and Stare
These photographs traces the movement of a class of people. We undertook several tasks from the classroom right to the heart of Melbourne city’s most busiest street (Swanston Street). These task requires team work to investigate the relationship between an … Continue reading
Posted in 4D explorations/time, Katrina Lim
Tagged Chair Walk, Experiments, public perception
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2D Street Art
Specifically with two dimensions street art like this, it just goes to show how these artists make use of the environment which they observe. I thought this was interesting because it is not what we encounter with in our everyday … Continue reading
Posted in 03_research, 2D observations/surface, Katrina Lim
Tagged 2D observations/surface, street art, urban
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Starting a Blank Canvas
In our first week project Claiming the City, we were asked to wander through the city and document 2D engagement with the urban environment. I have chosen these three images as it greatly demonstrate different types of 2D engagement in different ways. … Continue reading
Posted in 2D observations/surface, Katrina Lim
Tagged 2D observations/surface, formal, informal
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