Tag: experimenting

30-Aug-2016

Plan de Vida

30-Aug-2016

Participatory Web Design

What do we need:

 Two days

 Set up room with 4-5 tables (how many people are attending?)

 Print A3 Brainstorm notes from past session (4-5 copies)

 Use case cards

 Vision Statement - What is the outcome we want to see? What purpose will it serve?

 Scissors

 Tape

 Bluetack

 Brown paper

 Post-its

 Markers

 Pens

 Blank A4 paper

 Previous ideas printed on A4

Day One

 Introduction

 Plan of the workshop

 Review Brainstorm notes

 Use case cards - to understand who will use the website and why

 Review previous ideas

 Vision statement - to understand the purpose of the website and the overall project

Day Two - Prototyping! - sketch, brainstorm ideas

 Show inspiration on similar projects and using post-its, everyone writes down what they like from each site.

 Crazy 8 sketching - Fold A4 paper in half, then again in half two more times until you have 8 equally folded boxes when you open up the paper again.

(1) run an icebreaker where you give everyone 30 seconds to draw random things (i.e. cat, flower, garden, horse, community) starting from easy to more complex.

(2) run the activity again, but this time sketch ideas of how the homepage would look like. Everyone will get 1 minute per pox (8 minutes) to fill each box with a different idea.

(3) everyone shares their ideas and discuss what people like. Repeat it again with the tools page.

 Wireframes - Sketch ideas on single A4 sheets based on how you envision the main pages i.e. homepage, about, tools page, specific tool page.

 How do we categorise the content? Using A4 sheets with the title of existing/future tools (one per sheet), pass around post-its and pens.. Everyone can write what they feel are appropriate tags/categories for that tool. Pass each paper around until everyone has added their tag to it. This will inform the category/tag for that tool.

In a later session...

 Define roles for the website and project

 Walk-through and provide training to project members on updating the website

30-Aug-2016

Brainstorming Session

one curator/organiser/facilitator
participants/local community/people from different fields and interests
paper and pen, pencils
5 tables
one title written on each table- COMMUNITY, GREEN, CULTURE, STORIES, FOOD
one long wallpaper for visualisation, by an illustrator, of the main ideas expressed during the night by the participants

Four questions were asked as the brainstorming was happening, and one illustrator would visualise on a wall paper the words and things we would describe. For example:

Talk about the word “GREEN”
Find a definition for the word and link it to one or more of the following titles: Sharing, experimenting, making, teaching, playing
Find one or more actions that can be created in the field of your title, in the area of Garnethill and then discuss in which way you can all contribute in these actions with your own skills and knowledge. Share a proposal and understand how that could be part of the Botanic Concrete laboratory. Start from ground 0. Imagine that there is no architecture, no urban space. How can this action contribute to the world?
Open discussion: Are these proposals achievable? What are the next steps?

30-Aug-2016

De-tour

The most important material for the De-Tour is a list of ideas and questions. Participants should meet beforehand to discuss their interests–what about the location is of interest to them? What questions do they have? What are their hobbies?–and use these ideas to formulate prompts and alternative ‘lenses’ through which to view the sites of the De-Tour.

A physical kit of tools (e.g. cameras, pens and paper) is a highly productive though ultimately optional component of the De-Tour. A box or other container can be used to hold not only these tools for exploration, but also for gathering any found objects during the walk. A map of the area is also useful, though not mandatory. Outdated maps, technical maps (e.g. sewer maps), or other alternative renderings of the area can stimulate investigation, and these maps can be used to create a ‘route’ for the tour.

De-Tour materials (.zip file)

The Botanic Concrete De-Tour allowed small groups of Botanic Concrete participants to explore Garnethill, investigating themes including green space, architecture, birds and words among others. After discovering that Garnethill was once the site of an observatory, we decided to use images of constellations to create our tour routes: constellations visible from Glasgow were printed on transparencies and overlaid on outdated maps of Garnethill, arbitrarily designating ‘sites of interest’ at each of the stars. The groups each focused on very different suggestion and tools within the box of suggestions and ideas assembled, and the process led to creative and verbal articulations of participants’ interest in the area as well as their interests for future projects. Participants discovered the remains of a night nurse’s residence, hidden courtyards, obstructions of public access to public space, and many words written on and carved into buildings expressing the history and voices of Garnethill.

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29-Aug-2016

Photocoffee

A beautiful session where people interacted, learned new things about their area and shared smiles. It would be interesting to try this sessions also in an open space, so that it becomes visible to even more people.

Photocoffee event photos

Photocoffee Garnethill photos