Building Experiences
Workshop Programme
Art & the Built Environment
This 2-hour Workshop is designed to engage the participants in
simple, independent and group exploration of a familiar environment.
The activities focus on using the senses and the careful recording
of perceptions and reactions. They are designed to build and develop
skills and confidence in, group-work, recording, interpretation
and self-expression.
The Workshop approach is based upon a number of activities, with
participants working in small groups, and include:
The majority of the Workshop will be spent on the activities of
recording and collecting information. This material can be used
and developed to extend the Workshop ideas, and for display purposes
once the Workshop has been completed.
Sound Collage: Participants make a series of 3 minute tape-recordings
in a number of different locations and then play these back to
the rest of the whole group who have to identify the sounds and
hence location for each
Where is it? What is it? Sight & Smell: Participants
are given a number of unusual photos of the location that they
identify and then locate on a large-scale plan. At each location
they record any smells on the air that helps to identify the particular
place.
Sketching: Participants in each group make a sketch of
a building or object in the distance, by each standing in a different
location. They arrive at an expression of the same object but from
varied perspectives.
Perception & Language: Participants are given a list
of words from which they select what they consider to be the most
appropriate to describe a particular place. They are encouraged
to add their own based upon their perception of the place.
Visioning Change: Participants are encouraged to arrive
at ideas for an area of the location that they might wish to change
in some way.
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