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designers working together idea?
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Hi!
So based on what we agreed last Tuesday, Ive set up a forum for this project/endeavour/thing which can be found at http://workinprogress.freeforums.org
Heres a general recap of what went on, but after this Im generally gona be taking communication over to that forum, just cause it makes it that bit easier.
So at our first meet and greet we had 5 people with us, and 2 lost people (sorry again!)
Heres the general recap of what us 5 talked about, Im hoping you might all put up a little story of yourselves so I dont tell other peoples stories and get them wrong
Overall we want to begin working on a very broad design project to get our work out and in the public and hopefully get some media attention from it. Ideas thrown around included web/email to distribute design work, or putting work into fairs and that. But we mostly went this direction: getting access to empty building such as shops or offices around the city and using the windows to showcase work. Mostly we talked about using projectors/tvs/old monitors to display on, as well as having more physical aspects to show, such as a pendulum powered light. We also hope to have this be interactive with people passing by, on the simplest level, having animations/posters displayed when there is movement outside the window and off without movement. But this could be expanded, because we hope to be able to show any kind of work that people are interested in whatever the medium.
We thought that having an overall theme would help focus the "installation" (I know thats a real buzz word these days, but this can be wahtever you want it but I need to use some all encompassing word!). We though that making it based around the idea of Signs of the Times could work, kind of showing that even with the down times there is something happening and we're doing something to reflect/show/make happier these times. But this would be a broad idea, and interpreted at will! We thought this would be a good base to approach media with, we are out of work (or not getting to be as creative as we would like) artists, doing something to make it a little better.
Timewise we think October could good to get this up by. General plan goes along the lines of, thinking about areas you would like to work on for next week, developing a plan and approaching estate agents, approaching funding bodies, and then getting it all together along the way. Ideas should not be location specific, since we might not be 100% sure what vacant buildings we can get til close to the time.
Nothing about this is set in stone yet, we of course want everyone whos going to hopefully get involved to have input too, but this seemed like a good start-up direction to go.
If anyone who was there wants to add or argue anything from that, feel free!!0 -
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Hey GlindaGale,
Sent you a pm just there now.
Also our next meeting is tomorrow (23rd) again 6.30 ish, again all welcome, IFI cafe, glad to see so many people interested so far
Hi Susy
not sure what progress is being made, would you not consider imposing some structure to achieve some modest tangible progress. I'm not sure about the merits of finding empty spaces/vans around town/centre, seems too adhoc and erratic to me.
If designers want to engage with public much better to offer some form of stable regular venue. Display and/or show can migrate on a fixed period basis around Dublin initially.
There's little availablity for nothing around town and this needs to be grasped. In the meantime, what are you deliverables and more importantly when will they be available.
Admittedly this is a commercial slant, but you're either 'art' or 'commercial', and the latter demands more discipline which must be results driven from the outset? Otherwise your initiative might implode?
Not wishing to be negative, but from what I've seen here and on the new site, take up is slow and little evidence of any harnessing expressed interest.0 -
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Hi Sonnenblumen,
Thanks for your advice, Im afraid perhaps you have the wrong impression of us at the minute, because as experiMental says the best way to know what we're up to is to join us for a meeting.
We are quite organised, while still allowing oursleves time to build up momentum, we currently have quite a few people committed to the project, and are making progress each week.
While yes a great way to engage with the public is a regular exhibition, we want to give this a try, we think there is huge merit in taking empty spaces and doing something constructive with them, especially at the mooment with the amount of them around. There have been quite a few similar initiatives recently and they all seem to have been successful, so hopefully
Our deliverables are this exhibition/installation in October, we have a broad outline of what we need to be achieving each week to reach that goal, and we discuss these things at our meetings, so its possibly not all that clear from the forum site.
And we are a mix of commerical/art and I think it works for us, we just want to put on a show of the work that we can and like to do, whatever somes of it comes of it, the beauty of how our group is working so far is that we are each getting to have input into what we enjoy most, and that dynamic is working well for us, so for now a commericial/design/art mix-up is the non-label we're going with.
I know we may seem disorganised a little, (but its hard to portray organistaion in a forum, and also Im not the type to impose structure excpept where absolutely necessary and so far we're good!) and I appreciate the constructive criticism but right now everyone who is interested is fully invited to participate as much as they wish, however they wish, so I'm happy so far!
Please feel free to join us for our next meeting or if youd like to continue to duscuss this im very happy for you to pm me either.0 -
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