Chapter 1 - The Inspiration

So the first part of this process was the inspiration for my final piece. It began when really I didn't now what I was doing, my initial idea was to look at where teenagers hang about with friends ect. What I did was map out what I remembered my school being from memory and labelling the areas that we spent our time in.

This reminded me of an exercise I did in another class last year:

In this class we were given a map of the college and we were to change it however we wanted to. The lesson itself was inspired by the Situationist International organisation and their theory of dérive and psychgeography.

So after this I began looking at different maps and how I could make or draw them.

I also began looking for official maps that I could use or edit in some way. I found one of a non-place that I had looked at in some of my work because I was looking at where teenagers spend their time, and this is a common place in my local area for teenagers to go drinking in.

And so next came the idea - tune in next time to find out what that idea was :P

byyyyyeeeeeeee

Róisín -x

Layers

So I'm continuing on with my mapping idea for my Non-Place project.
My newest idea for this is to layer on sheets of acetate, or tracing paper to show how areas have changed meaning to me/ mean different things to other people.

What I am planning on doing right now is copying out the Carron Dams Reserve map  but with out the information like street names and points of interest etc. and then getting myself, my dad, and my brother to fill out how we feel about these areas. What I am then going to do is trace over these and then layer them over either the original map or the blank one. I am also planning on creating some sort of light box to see how the light travels through each layer revealing each persons notes.

So here's a list of the pages I have done since my last post.

I have yet to complete a couple of my ideas and therefore need to complete another couple of sketchbook pages as these ideas were sort of abandoned after I thought of this idea. The reason that these have been placed on the back burner is that I think that my map idea will work really well and will communicate what I am trying to say the best.

So see ya next time!
byeee,
Róisín -x

Non-places

So after our hand in of the pencils brief we were then given our new brief called 'Non-Places' which is a philosophical theory on what defines a place. I'm not going to go into too much detail about that seeing is it is an extremely deep concept which you could argue about for hours, so I'll just let you google it and make up your own mind. :P

So I'm kind of going between a few ideas at the moment, but I think the one I might try and stick to is my idea of looking at where youths go to hang out as normally these would be classed as non-places, like walls and stairwells etc. By them choosing to sit in these areas, they then change the definition of these non-places into places. (This brief is so confusing) I also have considered looking into social media as well, but I'm not sure if this was widen the topic too much. I might also branch out into looking at how as children the places we go are determined by our parents mostly, and as adults we tend to only ever go to "places" like work, home, bars etc.

Anyway now I'm just going to spam you with my sketchbook pages that I have so far. ;)

So that is where I am at with this project hopefully I can get some form of clear direction but I'm planning on talking to some of my lecturers on Monday to help give me some focus,

so until then
byye :)

Róisín - x