Garden Road Adventure Playground 2017
A concept design for an adventure playground on an open space in Jaywick, Essex. The design is inspired by both current adventure playgrounds and the concept behind junk playgrounds. It'd be a supervised area with opening and closing times that adapt to the school term timetables. The idea is to create a community hub for the local children registered aged roughly 6-12 to attend and adapt the playground for their play.
Playhouse design based on child-made dens. Like the changing colours of the season throughout the year, children can customise the design of their playhouse to their needs. This playhouse offers a space for their creative flow. Chalkboard inside for re-purposing the inside. Wooden structure that can be painted on the outside. Metal plates that can hold wooden pole components that interlock into each other to be of a height the child desires. Change the fabric / tarpulin to their own choice of material. For children who want to play with how their little space looks.
Collaborating with UEA Creative Writing student Lucija Marenjak, we developed a narrative and workshop for the Ampersand exhibition. The narrative was developed via our characters Mrs. Green and Kumari based in a seaside town and their evolving bond. The workshop I created to accompany Lucija's short story revolved around their unspoken relationship and their bond over seashells, by inviting the audience to participate in a paired workshop without speech to create a charm bracelet for each other.
Collaboration with fellow course peers who's creative work relied on participant/public contribution. The event held a two-day, 1 hour workshop with an "instructional" film running alongside. Each participants work from the workshop was "published" onto our Instagram. The workshop was for us to see how the public interpreted our keywords, correlating to our personal practice, through making visuals. We included wearing red or blue glasses to the workshop to alter the perspective of the wearer, also to add a bit of fun!
Volunteering for University of East Anglia's FLY (Festival of Literature for Young People), I hosted a one hour workshop encouraging students to illustrate their own book cover.
Collaboration with fellow course peers to create an event at The Forum inspired by their book collection in the Millennium Library of Linguistics. We followed the route British Sign Language to create an event that promotes awareness of the deaf community. The day involved a workshop to encourage the public to spell the word linguistics with foam hands in order to perform themselves afterwards as well as an opportunity to explain what we had learnt about sign language through our research. The event provoked many participants to share any of their own stories about sign language and how important it is as a language of communication with the deaf community.