Month: March 2015

Our project is essentially becoming a part of Cork city’s fabric. Bricks will be woven into the streets of Cork. Bricks will resemble or be branded by the Midsummer Fest logo, white and yellow dots with red text colour.

Two options:

1. Follow the music/food/events trail of the festival around cork?
2. Or should the trail take on the four walking trails already in existence in Cork?

Link to self-guided walking maps: http://www.discoverireland.ie/Places-To-Go/Cork/Features/Self-Guided-Cork-Walks

Will each trail take on a colour scheme to reflect the mood of the trail? e.g. red for romance, blue for serenity or flow of the river, yellow for joy/happiness/laughter, green for nature/growth/harmony.

Alternatively, one trail following the festival can be lit in the theme colours or broken into separate divisions where each division is represented by the corresponding mood colour.

Bricks light up to highlight the trail in the festival colours. Or hints to the next brick.

 

 

App to send stories to a brick & follow the trail.

Old telephone booths set up on the streets to allow the public to record their own stories and send them to bricks.

 

 

Human interaction on the street? How is it immersive?

Telephone Handset, branded by the festival, handed out to plug into bricks and listen. Also, ‘shoe lace’ and ‘zip’ earphones.

They can also be a sort of souvenir for the user to take with them.

 

 

Cork Memory Map – a story map of Cork already in existence online.

 

Also, look at interviewing techniques. Best ways to get a great interview a find out information. Identify and define the kind of content we are looking for.

 

 

 

The Gantt Chart for the project is available to download here. The software required to view the project is included

 Title         “If The Walls Could Talk”

Synopsis We are proposing to bring the streets alive with a project we have called “If The Walls Could Talk”. This project is aimed towards anyone over 25+ with an interest in Cork city and the stories it has to share. Anyone who would like to participate can follow trails throughout the city, leading them through streets and side streets. Loose or missing bricks on these streets will be replaced with unique artifacts that, when activated, will tell colloquial stories gathered from generations of fond memories of Cork. The bricks will be highlighted with a symbol or mark linked to the Cork Midsummer Festival. Trails will also be associated around events that are taking place throughout the festival.

 

Team White

Dispatchwork is an art project that aims to replace missing bricks in cities and towns with recreations made of colorful lego, below are some example of the work that has been done. The project is about both removing the gray and dull from our city and also solving the deterioration that occurs day to day in our cities, towns and lifes.

http://www.dispatchwork.info/

The dispatchworks website says the following in thier manefesto available on the website.

Dispatchwork contradicts and satirizes the superimposed seriosity of constructions in the cityscape. Within all that rigidity and stiffness there are plenty of chances for your own creativity. The project also aims to put the focus on the playful, hands-on aspects of creation in our daily lives, and further, on the possibilities for participation to construe and design our own reality.

I found maps of the Walk that are easily sign posted around the city center and areas that are of intereast most of the walk cover, or go near areas where there are events on for the Midsummer festival. Beside from the locations that each walk goes near by the walks are already a well established part of the tourist trail in Cork. The trails provide great views of the city to people who choose to take them bringing tourist to parts of the city that you would expect. Each of the brochures are posted below.

University Walk

Brochure City Island

Shandon Brochure

South Parish

I found this series of video by a youTube channel called Motherboard. The series is called Sound builders and focuses on people who make unique instruments and sounds using everyday objects or unconventional methods. A video which I found interesting was this one.

 

 

In this video the creator of the instrument is talking about a hydraulophone which he describes as an underwater pipe organ in the video below you can see it being played.

 

 

One of our ideas to do this focuses on people interacting with installation pieces that are placed in areas around the city. The pieces that people would interact with can be placed around the city in locations that people walk by or through everyday on their way to work or town.  Each of these locations could be themed in a way that would link the festival to the city. For example one area could be themed around the Shandon Clock. Another area could be themed like ships which would link with the port of Cork.

Each of the installation pieces would be made from recycled or recovered material and be a bespoke instrument that anyone walking by could stop and play with. Each location would then be filled with unique sounds which would bring each individual area to life.