Jordana Gurney
Joseph Banks 1743-1820 British naturalist, botanist and patron of natural sciencesEncouraged King George III to support voyages around the worldHMS Endeavour visiting Brazil, Tahiti, NZ and Australia collecting new specimens Wrote detailed descriptions while plants were fresh (illustrator sketched them at the same time) then placed in folded sheet in sun to dryFound many new... Continue Reading →
English Landscape Garden (picturesque): 1740-1820 Aristocratic estatesSeamless landscapes (use of hahas)Picturesque, tidied up, bucolic, painterly landscapesLandform, copses and waterOften with classical allusions (greek temples/pillars) and narrativesView from the house of a rolling, pastural landscapeWhole villages often moved to accomodate size, trees movedDesigned "natural" landscapeNotable influence: Capability Brown Stourhead, UKRetrieved From: https://www.imageseen.co.uk/photograph-stourhead Gardenesque (Victorian garden): 1830-1914... Continue Reading →
Wintergardens Situated in Auckland Domain Built in stages between 1916-1928 using funds from the Auckland Industrial, Agricultural and Mining Exhibition in 1913-1914Renovated several times - 1945, 1954, 1993-1994Currently undergoing seismic upgradesDesigned by Architect William Gummer of Gummer and Ford Showing influences of Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll Designed in the Arts and Craft style... Continue Reading →
Whole presentation - parts one (images on wall on left and table), two (canvas and blue booklets) and three (written manifesto) Table display - chosen pieces from part one Wall display - chosen pieces from part one Wall display - intervention from part two and some pieces from part one underneath Wall display - part... Continue Reading →
With the presentation of all three parts coming up I wanted to revisit my part two documentation to make it visually more appealing but also communicate more concisely what it was I wanted to share. Based off feedback from peers and tutors after the last presentation I removed a lot of the text and edited... Continue Reading →
It was difficult knowing where to begin with actually writing a manifesto of my own. I went back through part one and two and wrote down the things that I had been interested in such as comfort/discomfort, confrontation and how spaces design an experience or emotion. I knew I wanted to write something that came... Continue Reading →
After completing our interventions as part two we moved onto part three. Creating a manifesto that stakes our ground in relation to 'The Commons'. This manifesto is to reflect upon what we have learned from part one, documenting a social space and part two, creating an action of intervention into a social space and to... Continue Reading →
Project One - Experimental Skins2020 - Year 2, Semester 2 The below is a final presentation for a series of surfaces, designed with the intention of using additive manufacturing to quickly produce a group of surfaces. This project began on campus but due to Covid lockdown was moved online for the remainder. Sadly due to... Continue Reading →
Presentation layout - Canvas, booklet Presentation layout - Canvas, booklet When presenting my canvas and booklet I wanted it to mimic how it was placed in the apartment. Instead of hanging it on a wall I propped it up at eye level so it could be easily read and come across as a work of... Continue Reading →
On Friday 4th September I presented my flatmates with an agreement that explained the intervention and stated the rules of it. We all signed it and on the following Monday the intervention began. Flatmate agreement I removed an exisiting piece of art from one of the walls in the 'dining area' and replaced it with... Continue Reading →
Spatial Design 