Group feedback on ideas and positioning statement so far.

This was really helpful exercise. The practise of vocalising my thoughts and ideas helped me to clarify what I was actually interested in and start to refine my idea.

It was great meeting with my study group and being able to draw on ideas that we know are of interest to each other helping to guide each other into a concept that they would excel at and be excited by.

Positioning Statement:

The winter gardens were built for the purpose of providing an escape from the city and to provide something to do in the winter months. This idea of an escape from reality ties into the foreign, exotic plants within the site. Everything about the site takes you away from the norm.

I will create an intervention that doesn’t alter or damage the original structure but re imagines the space for a temporary food event. I want to explore the ideas of social distancing/ sharing a meal together in our current climate in a context of a space outside of our normal.

To create a psychedelic environment I will use bright colours at strategic places to cast colour around the space. I will utilise the natural light to manipulate shadow and alter how the space feels at different intervals throughout the day. 

I will set up food within the space that explores themes like social distancing, the nature of eating and what is a normal way of eating. I personally love to eat in a grazing manner and would like to explore the use of hands when engaging with food and the controversy that comes with that in this current climate. Setting up food in a way that resembles fruit picking or gathering. Alternatively it would be interesting to explore eating with a distance element and explore how you can create an intimate meal between two people when there is physical distance between them. 

Further development:

I need to start to honing into one idea.

Colonial events are the ones usually held in the winter gardens.

Figure out how to create a full sensory experience – enhance that, how it feels, temp, smell etc.

Explore motif of grids, repeating elements and shapes eg archways, symmetry, shadow grids on grids idea – playing with light.

Site Map:

My site map identifies the location of the site in relation to the Auckland domain and the topography of the land.

Colour Way: