Art & design in context introduction

Art & Design in Context

Langlands and Bell, Air routes of the World by night, 2001

Art and Design in ContextArt & Design in Context moodle page:http://moodle.gre.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2729

Art & Design in Context course blog: artdesigncontext1112.wordpress.com

Contact:

sara@andersdotter.com

www.andersdotter.com

Every map is someone’s way of getting you to look at the world his or her way.

(Lucy Fellowes, Smithsonian curator, quoted in Henrikson 1994)

• Geographical and spatial• Political• Cultural• Personal• Thought based

(mind map / concept map)• Routes• Processes• Temporal (time)• Experiential

Distance to nearest McDonalds

Adam Dant, Shoreditch as Globe, 1999 Adam Dant, An Historic Guide to Shoreditch, 2001

Maps according to odour (1 and 2), texture (3) and sound (4)

Surveillance Camera Players, 2001 / 2005

Alternative maps – group exercise

To start off the first Art & Design in Context assignment (‘The Map and the Territory’) this term, we will create alternative maps to Greenwich Maritime campus.

Form groups of 5-6. Discuss different ways in which the Maritime campus can be experienced, and generate ideas of how these experiences can be represented via a map/maps. Spend the next 45 minutes exploring the area, collecting materials for your maps and prepare to present your ideas to the rest of the group. Record your map – on paper/on your phones/via photographs, or any other way you see fit. It is up to you how you choose to organise yourselves in your group – however, it is important that each person has a role!

You may, for example, use / think about:

- found objects- photographs or filmed footage (on your mobile phones)- signs- senses and perceptions- routes, patterns and forms of navigation

Make sure you document the process (images, notes, etc) – evidence of participation should be reflected on your blogs!

Next week’s sessionIn preparation for next week’s session, you need to:

- Read chapter 8 of Paul Auster’s ‘City of Glass’ (available on the Art and Design in Context blog under ‘Resources’): http://artdesigncontext1112.wordpress.com/the-map-and-the-territory/resources/

- View the videos posted on Moodle: http://artdesigncontext1112.wordpress.com/filmsvideo/

- Make sure your blog is linked to the Art and Design in Context course blog (email me or Mark Ingham your blog details: sara@andersdotter.com or im08@gre.ac.uk)