Have You Seen It? State of Design Festival Victoria, Melbourne (2008)

TeamZ: Rochus Urban Hinkel, Hélène Frichot, Laurene Vaughan with Ashley Perry and Michael Spooner

This was an aesthetic cooperation comprised of still images, film, objects and text. Tangible and ephemeral, obvious and discrete, these multiple components of the installation embraced the diversity of the individual view, the complexity that frames how we navigate through space, along streets, around people. Like the multiple directions of the intersection that was the cornerstone for the broader project brief, Have You Seen It? Is a spatial intervention of possibility and diversity. Although easily perceived as a collaboration between five design researchers, this site intervention can better be understood as a cooperation.

The initial intention of the project was to bring together the five diverse approaches to exploring the experience of space, into one cohesive outcome. However as the project evolved there was a shift in our expectations, framed by our individual intentions, it became apparent that to produce one cohesive view would be to undermine the very objective of the project. As such a new body of work was devised; a series of site specific interventions that would sit side by side with a shared goal - to draw people's attention to the place that they are in.