Fantasy Atelier_13_03_2010
WORKSHOP PROPOSAL:
1. Intro: Looking at Playspaces and Playscapes.
1. Intro: Looking at Playspaces and Playscapes.
Where and what can we play in and on? Fantasy Environments. Look at children's previous proposals from previous workshops & my own ideas, including how I created my 'storied projection drawing'.
2. First exercise: Drawing propositions
2. First exercise: Drawing propositions
Children draw with pens onto A4 acetate, tracing over photos of the interior and exterior of Carlton House terrace, in order to transform it into a extra ordinary place to play (similar to play panorama from drawingPLAY workshop in November).
3. Second exercise: Collaging ideas
3. Second exercise: Collaging ideas
Children can add collage elements from photos and images (photos of the ICA, dens from buildingPLAY workshop, the fandangos and the play panoramas from previous workshops etc.) that have been printed onto acetate before hand.
3. Third exercise: Projecting & collaborating
3. Third exercise: Projecting & collaborating
Three poster-sized photos showing different interiors of the ICA will be on the wall in the theatre and then using 3 overhead projectors we will project the children's acetate collages and drawings onto the the photo posters.
The spaces we will be looking at:
ICA CINEMA
ICA CAFE
ICA THEATRE
In groups we will trace over them, directly on to the photo posters- creating new hybrid drawings, playing with the ICA's interiors through a sort of evanescent graffiti. For the older kids it may be about more realistic (yet fantastical) proposals and for the younger ones it may be about creating patterned and coloured worlds.
WARM UP:
A warm up activity as people arrive would be that one child draws a scribble and passes it to his friend who has to turn it into a drawing of something (a game I used to play with my dad). This would help them to get used to working over someone else's work, co-authorship and collaborative design. Similar to how architects have to pass their drawings to and from consultants, a process known as 'redlining'. Also the nature of 'refurbishment' and working imaginatively within the constraints of an existing building.
The spaces we will be looking at:
ICA CINEMA
ICA CAFE
ICA THEATRE
In groups we will trace over them, directly on to the photo posters- creating new hybrid drawings, playing with the ICA's interiors through a sort of evanescent graffiti. For the older kids it may be about more realistic (yet fantastical) proposals and for the younger ones it may be about creating patterned and coloured worlds.
WARM UP:
A warm up activity as people arrive would be that one child draws a scribble and passes it to his friend who has to turn it into a drawing of something (a game I used to play with my dad). This would help them to get used to working over someone else's work, co-authorship and collaborative design. Similar to how architects have to pass their drawings to and from consultants, a process known as 'redlining'. Also the nature of 'refurbishment' and working imaginatively within the constraints of an existing building.
OVERALL CONCEPT:
We will be overlaying the childrens' proposals from previous workshops onto my photos/ drawings of the interior of the ICA- transforming it into a 'playscape' or imaginative place to play, i.e. literally 'projecting' their ideas onto the spaces of the ICA to make new architecture conducive to play designed, drawn and imagined by the children collectively.
The idea for the workshop came from inspired by the cinematic concept of 'phantasmagoria' and early projection devices such as the magic lantern. I think it will be exciting because the projections will be very immersive and the results very unpredictable, the kids will be drawing with light and colour as well and pens- not something they could do at home.
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