INTERIOR PRACTICES

  SITES OF EXCHANGE AND MATERIALISM The sixth week of class, we had a short meeting with our tutors in different groups first. Then we spoke about sites of exchange and I mentioned about conversations and libraries being sites of exchange.  Sites of exchange involves giving and getting. It could be in any form, talking and listening, different interactions happening and taking pictures of it. It could be anything. Everyone had different experiences and opinions on What sites of exchange means. There was exchange of culture, social exchange, music, photography, sounds and senses, interaction and many more.  Then we had Rokhshid talk about materialism to us. It’s a thought in which all things that exist are made up of matter in some way. Every surface has Texture, colour, light, shadow, Soft and hard materials and can be used to represent materialism.  Traditional materials and new materials are different and could be used using different techniques. Traditional materi...

  FORT WIDLEY - SITE VISITATION   First of all I would love to say Fort Widley has a great feel, I was scared to stand there but after I was able to stand and stay for a while, I literally felt on top of the  world. its really calming. It felt like I had zero worries.  For our Work Based Learning course, we were showed different projects and told to Pick any of our choice. I was hooked between two different projects but I ended up picking the Fort Widley project. My thought was who doesn’t want to see a fort that was designed for protection getting adaptively reused to a wedding reception venue and accommodation space. Adaptive reuse is a process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than which it was originally designed for.  Fort Widley is a polygonal Fort Designed by William Crossman. Red brick and local flint were used to construct the forts buildings and to revetment the substantial dry ditch that was dug at the same time. The fort was constru...

  The Power of Team Work and Assemblage For our colour workshop today, we were asked to bring our A1 coloured sheets which were 2.  A colour we find interesting in our homes or outside and a colour we love.  Everyone had different colours, no same shade of purple, or red, or orange. Everyone saw different colours with different meaning. We then sat in a large circle and put our colours in front of us and spoke about them, not everyone got the shade they were looking for. Two of our classmates then arranged the colours in a circle, in the best way they thought. Everyone had different views on the arrangements. Then we were splitted into three groups and each group had a piece of an A1 coloured sheet.  My group members were John, Mohammed, Jamna, Uche, Sakina and Aysha. We all had different ideas and we started acting on the different ideas, then we combined everything together and it made a story. I even got a coloured flower made by one of my group members....