Brief: actively and critically engage with the city and its’ population using methods you devise. Question access and ownership, rights and responsibilities. Identify a public space and develop an intervention to activate it.
Site where high rise flats at Norfolk Court were recently demolished.
We noticed the paradox between the three stages of building present; the standing high rise flats, the pile of rubble left by the demolition and the vacant area where two high rises once stood. The dust left by the demolition covered the area in a grey smog, negatively affecting the community. We decided to focus on the effects of the dust which was such a prominent issue at the time.
We wanted to create something with the people in the community, rather than impose our ideas on them.
Main Goals:
- Focus on impact of Dust
- Focus on change, evolution, destruction
- Interact with the community
- Create something with the community rather than impose ideas on them
- Evoke emotion and memory
- Reverse dust’s negative impact
- Installation should be impermanent
- Use color to brighten the area
Children from Norfolk Court helped us decorate the playground.
