informal urban practices

encouraging participants to engage with their urban surroundings through positive re-enforcement.

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T.H Project

‘T.H’ Project group will work as small groups underneath the banner of a larger collective due to commitments and varying timetables.
Each member will undertake smaller stand alone projects that will collectively, when grouped side-by- side, contribute and relate to what is termed “T.H”……….

Key Phrases:
Communication; trial maze, observation.
Ephemeral; movement, Transient.
Stimulation of senses.
Momentum/ Transition.
Appropriation.
Emulation; Behaviour; Social Convention.
Viral Element; Growing/ spreading marketing practices.
Activation.
Relation-scapes.
Empowerment.
Hivemind.

‘T.H’ aims to:
1/ Members will use ‘T.H’ as a framework to expose public perception and social conventions.
2/ This will facilitate an experience for the user-participant to question urban social construct. With the stimulus provided we aim to harness the collective creativity that is born from individual speculation and interpretation.

Mediums/ Process to be undertaken;
Guerrilla advertising.
Culture Jamming (websites, blog, stickers, postering)
MX Classifieds.
Video, public performance.
Word-of-mouth.
Graffiti.
Subconscious objects.
Profile/ Branding.

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The studio ’Informal Urban Practices’ appealed to me as I am very interested in the notions of public/private space and how they overlap. Where does one stop and another begin? What is public? What is private? And how can we explore this idea through design? It is also very interesting to me how the general public will engage with these designs and how it will ‘affect’ them.

Being an Interior Design student it is very exciting to think about how to unfold the notions of interior and explore how to place it within an urban landscape. Interior/exterior – and again – public/private.

What I hope to get out of this studio is a developed skill set to produce 1:1 scale works quickly and successfully. Also collaborating with industrial design students will be a great to gain influence from a different school of design.

INITIAL OUTLOOK  SYNOPSIS:

Interest in?

Facilitation of Ephemeral space and the blending of Public vs. private boundaries.
The stereotype or Interpretation of various spaces and Sense of ownership assumed with or of the
space.
‘Affect’ and manipulation of space use through social means and the consequence of such change.
The Empowerment of a place and possible status entitlements that may be subsequently attached.
Ability to vary the nature of the space to meet a need, usual/unusual, to welcome or cause unease,
respect/ tribute or utilitarian properties.
Presume Public or private ownership of a space through experience rather than utilizing ‘way
finding’ techniques or signage.

Motivation for?

Through social design projects previously undertaken, the ‘universal design’ approach in regards to
systems and spacial design is the area I would like to move forward towards on an immediate and
independent scale.

Learn what?

To experience the immersion of informal space and analyse subcultures that exist within. This
process would ideally enable the fashioning of interesting and interactive responses to promote a
desired response or action within the wider community on some tangible level