Jordana Gurney
Living close to the Auckland Domain I have the advantage of easily being able to go to site anytime. The surrounding area is one I am very familiar with as I pass through the domain daily on my way to the city and use the area for exercise most days however I have never actually... 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 →
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 →
After finishing part one we were introduced to part two:Intervening/Interfering. For this part we were to develop 5 proposals for an intervention into our chosen social space from part one. Once we had 5 proposals developed we chose one to enact over the mid semester break which would then produce an artefact and supporting documentation.... Continue Reading →
Spatial Design 