Week Three notes

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The Ladder of Citizen Participation

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Essay

For those of you interested in the business end of experience design, here is a very thorough essay with a good reading list at the end. A prize for the first person to correctly quantify the number of uses of the word 'brand'.

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Thanks Sola for finding this.

Orange chair language

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Week Two notes

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Reading

Please read these essays and think about their implication in relation to the discussion in this week's lesson:

Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics

The Poetics of Open Work

Relational Aesthetics

Read this book. More info here.

Blind Light / How It Is

Two artists attempting something somewhat similar: creating disorientation through sensory deprivation.

Blind Light
How It Is

We would suggest that the Gormley piece is more successful on at least two levels: The presence of others enhances the experience in Blind Light but not in How It Is. We are used to losing our vision in the dark but not in the light so the Blind Light experience is far more disconcerting.

Christoph Büchel

An artist employing theatrical staging techniques to create unique experiences. This piece, ‘Simply Botiful’, was shown at Hauser & Wirth Coppermill in 2006.

Info here

Punchdrunk: Faust

A theatre company who break down the traditional 'fourth wall' and allow the audience to walk through the performance. This adds a non linear narrative to a familiar and well known story. The audience were separated from each other and the performers through the use of masks.

Info here

For a more commercial take on this idea, see Secret Cinema here

T Mobile

The flash mob phenomena was co-opted and probably killed off by T-mobile and Saatchi & Saatchi's appropriation of this very modern grass roots movement.

Info here

Rirkrit Tirivanija

A key player in relational art and one of the first of the 'Eating Artists'. Tiravanija has spawned a mini movement of similar artists and designers including Marije Vogelzang.

Info here

and here

Bridge

'The Bridge' provided the experience of walking on water and was staged in an empty church.
Michael Cross is a product designer who used this project to develop and test function and emotional response to a future product.

Info here

Seizure

Roger Hiorn's Turner Prize nominated installation was created in a disused flat by sealing the windows and filling the room with copper sulphate solution, which was allowed to evaporate.

Info here

and here