W2 - Initial ideas about collaborative installation

For some reason I've felt far freer in imagining what might be done (even if it is not within my grasp either technically, nor within the realms of what VU considers to be safe and acceptable) and, possibly, this is to do with the fact that this installation is further off and will not be my decision alone.

I'm very conscious that VU St Albans campus is both filled with with structures and natural elements to which installations could be added in order to trasform them and that it is a very windy place. The latter could be both a severe limiting factor, or an element one could feature in the design of the work.

Here are three ideas:

(1)

Site: 'eagle' or angle' structure on the front of buildings 7 and 8

Installation: curtains of rubbish

Influence: Happy Happy Plastic Stadium, 2008, Seoul. Designed by Choi Jeonghwa. The photo was downloaded from DesignSpotter on 12 August 2009.


The work is made from 1.7 million pieces of plastic rubbish collected by residents, 3600 people transformed the Jamsil Sports Complex into an enormous eco art installation. The work was presented for the Seoul Design Olympiad 2008






(2)
Site: dried up fountain in centre of campus


Install: fill up fountain basin with shredded blue paper, blue plastic bags, blue plastic bottles and create an arch over it from which hang flags, mobiles or kite structure also made from rubbish. I'd love to incorporate those little plastic soy fish that come with sushi, but the scale is too small.


Influence: the eco art with a point of MLSK. They collect particular numbers of objects to represent statistics for consumption of the featured object. This one features bottled water bottles transformed into mobiles and hung off trees:
Go to http://www.notesondesign.net/inspiration/design/mslk’s-watershed-project-installed-on-governor’s-island/ for furher details on installation with other rubbish items such as plastic bags.


(3)
Site: avenue of gum trees between carparks of buildings 1 and 2.
Installation: strings of kites made of plastic bags

Influence: Miwa Koizma, miwa.metm.org who, amongst other diverse projects has created delicate sea creatures from PET bottles and here's her recipe for making plastic bag kites (more like wind socks): http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/28857/make-plastic-bag-kites, (part of a project by Miwa Koizma)