WORKSHOP THREE: Experimental Model Making

the aim of this workshop was to both encourage extended and experimental thought as well as extended and experimental physical model making techniques. i learnt a few neat tricks along the way, like bending balsa and scoring boxboard. the first exercise was to visit sydney city and document a certain aspect of it (i chose stairs.) my poster points to the way stairs form not only an angular connection between the focal spaces of the city, but are not limited to 'coming' and 'going'. they can make the coming the going and the going the coming, dependant on the user and the context. the model that continues this theme uses string to descibe this intepretation of the stairs, and boxboard rectangular prisms to convey the genericism of most sydney city architecture. the interest of the city is after all in people and connections, not brick and mortar. the final week's presentation was a representation of my personal experience of the workshop, combined with a word (in my case "CONTROL"). i found that the workshop allowed a certain element of freedom, but this freedom was inhibited by the restrictions of time, medium, marking criteria. (this may seem like a depressing outlook on what was probably the free-est workshop this semester, but where's the fun in being optimistic all the time...) the poster represents this freedom encased in the restriction of medium (in this case the blank paper border enforces this cage). the model is an extrusion of this idea, with slivers of balsa being encased within a balsa cage; while outside this defined space of the sculpture, the outside world goes on, truly free.

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