The Brief: This project is about visiting a particular place within the city of Glasgow or its suburbs and coming up with an idea related to that particular location. In groups of six (of different specialisms) visit your assigned location and really look at what you see there...
Find something that triggers the imagination to generate discussion and ideas associated with the location. Feel free to explore hiddens areas, the 'nooks and crannies' to create a group presentation.
Our response: We were assigned an area that followed the river Kelvin from the Great Western Bridge to the Botanic Gardens. After exploring this stretch of river and collecting many images- sketches and photographs we returned to the studio to gather out thoughts. We all decided that we should concentrate on the Great Western Bridge itself, as it struck us all as the most interesting and significant part of our area. The grafitti under the stairs leading to Kelvin Bridge station stood out to us all but it was not until we then looked back at our photographs that we noticed 'secret windows' blocked out and white washed. The space underneath the stairs appeared almost as a hidden home...
Although this tenement building is no longer a home, it is sheltered by the staircase with the pillars, backwall and pavement creating the boundaries of a new space. Empty bottles and other discarded objects suggested that although no longer a home this space was in fact a 'place', a dwelling.We decided to impose our own story on this place and erect a home scene, with a mixture of found and handmade objects we each inserted a bit of ourselves into the project to make our very own home.
The motif featured on the chair became a running theme throughout each of our personal objects. This allowed the room to be tied together with an obvious theme and monochromatic colour scheme.
