task_4 – from somewhere

 – from somewhere to your space + place

Premise

Graphically narrate the journey from somewhere to your place and begin to employ the following:

•   plan
•   section
•   elevation
•   line + shape -- to detect what we see and develop design tools
•   context -- terms and conditions of urban phenomena

The task is to construct a synopsis of a visual narrative of the journey from somewhere to what you have identified as place + space in task_3.  Think of an underlying theme to support your narrative.  David Campbell states:

For someone developing a visual story, the most important thing to ask is ‘what is the story you really want to tell?’ Answering that can mean working through these questions:

§  what is the issue?

§  what will be the events/moments?

§  if needed, who are the characters?

§  what is the context?

The relationship between story, event and issue requires knowledge of the context above all else. That demands research because not everything that drives photography is visual.

https://www.david-campbell.org/2010/11/18/photography-and-narrative/

and supports his constructs with if one were following this classical structure, then the key stages in structuring a narrative would include:

• introducing the location
• giving the story a ‘face’
• letting people tell their own story
• contextualizing those stories
• following a dramatic form

Requirement

What you are required to do is generate a synopsis [storyboard] of your narrative using text, photography and lines which will result in creating, with finer detail, the narrative which you will explore next term.  Implement the themes of space, place, local + global and gender [reading will be emailed to you].  Use the bachelard_poetics_space reading to frame your synopsis.  To enrich your narrative, weave into it these four interrelated concepts:

• structure
• form
• space
• performance

Most urban systems display some kind of spatial ‘ordering system’.  In other words, human activities seldom occur randomly in space.  Rather, they respond to a ‘logic’ that is contained within a spatial ‘ordering system’, even if this ‘logic’ is in conflict with (or different from) ‘official understandings’ of a place.  Thus the aim of this phase of the project is thus to explore, uncover, and critically assess the existing spatial ‘ordering system’ your place + space as you narrate your journey within the city.

Deliverable

A minimum of seven [7] A4 landscape sheets of your synopsis.  These may be standalone sheets or a pdf file.

Hand in:           24 March 2015, A5 studio – 14:00

Remember that this is Matrix_Stage1 of 3 of the submission and all there stages make up 20% of your final mark.