Wednesday Class

Today's class went really well, we presented our idea to 2 teams and Jo who all had a lot of positive things to say about the work:

- we could try using something sculptural to interact with what we are creating on the ground. Jo showed us this picture as an example.

- to test we could do chalk spray colour patches on campus to create a "crossing" and see if people use it. As part of this was the idea of using the feet pattern at the start to encourage people to walk on it.

- we need to measure the intersection down at Cuba Street so that we can make this to scale and proportionate.

- does it need an explanation or is the beauty of it the abstract references to history? Maybe a press release would cover it off?

- would we add the patterns elsewhere up Cuba as visual cues??

- it reminded Tom of Piet Mondrian's work:

- Tom also questioned the typeface and would like us to create a few different stylizations this week.

- He also wanted us to justify why it said CUBA and not something different


We also decided we wanted to try adding a few other patterns (umbrella, bucket fountain, more Cuba icons), and we also wanted to try one with less differential patterns and just the nautical theme.

From here we went out to look at where we could test and came across a few locations.

On campus:

This is a place people apparently cross quite often so could be a good way to test however because it's not already an existing crossing it might not be perceived as we hope - so we will test and see.

Off campus:

A lot of students cross in this spot on Tasman Street so could be a good test however is dangerous if students start to think it is a genuine crossing and expect cars to stop.

This crossing where Bidwell Street meets Tasman Street has one section of crossing controlled by lights that is only really used when people are going into Wellington High so this could be a good spot to test as it is a bit safer and better mirrors the Cuba Street.


After discussing these options with Jo, we decided to do the chalk test first and that the Bidwell Street test might be too hard. During the week we set out a plan:
Sam - creating more patterns and emailing Wellington City Council about the old art piece on Cuba.
Calvin - refining existing piece of type.
Joyce & Celia - different stylizations.
On Monday, the team are meeting to do the chalk test.
On Tuesday we will have a meeting and do a large scale tiled print of our idea.