reflex - the finished wall piece

Collaborative student project and public exhibition 

Interior Architecture and Design
and
Interactive Media and Screen Cultures 

University of Hertfordshire

Lecturers:
Heidi Saarinen and Ian Willcock








Images from the reflex exhibition build up Feb 2012

R E FL E X exhibition project Art & Design Gallry 7-9 Feb 2012

Exhibition to go up Mon 6th/Tue 7th Feb. Tbc.

First briefing/meeting 12.00 Tue 24th January 2012, AB145 Studio. I will explain the project and check on the initial ideas for the exhibition design (from Project Week 16-20 Jan). Please make sure you are prepared for this very short and sharp project. £100 budget.

You must obtain a plan of the Gallry space asap - some of you already have these from lev 4 projects last year.

Groups will be allocated shortly. Look out for emails.

Tue 31/1/2012 - studio 10am - decisions and materials - drawing of space and proposal
Thu  2/2/2012 - AB146 2pm - present finial proposal to Screen Cultures students and tutor

More later.. For now, please make sure the above is in your diary and work has begun.

Reflex exhibition design

R E F L E X

This is a very short group project designing exhibition design concepts for an exhibition of work by students from the Screen Cultures Programme.

The public exhibition opens Tuesday 7th February 2012, open until 9th February 2012.

REFLEX is a vibrant short live project that showcases work by Screen Cultures students. It has become a tradition that IAD students design and set up the exhibition. It is a very low budget (£100) and therefore a lot of imagination is absolutely necessary. Less is more.

You need to produce drawings; plans, sections, visuals, diagrams and materials information. Instructions need to be in place for the installation.

You will work in groups  – each group coming up with ONE design concept for the exhibition. This is also a Student Competition, where the most innovative and suitable exhibition design wins and gets to build the exhibition. The idea for the group concepts should come from the work that was carried out during PROJECT WEEK (individual exhibition research).

You need to consider the various constraints (heights, widths etc) depending on the ‘station’ activity.

Health & Safety, risk assessment etc.

The Screen Cultures students will produce in a group, an interactive object or environment, which is designed to be exhibited in a public gallery context.

The artefact should not use conventional input and/or output methods to establish relationships with its users and may explore concepts of sensing and/or actuation which have been covered in class or may be based on techniques and materials your group has researched. 

Tue 24.1.12      Meeting with Heidi AB145 – check on Project Week activities – groups assigned.

Tue  31.1.12     Studio project work ALL DAY – ideas and concepts into place. Agreed, materials and costs to be complete for installation 6/7^th Feb.

Thu 2.2.12        Present concepts to Client. This is a formative assessment point. Competition –

                        selection of winning concept. (All students/groups to help set up the chosen design).

Mon 6^th Feb       Work on any final designs/materials/instructions. Compile group document.

Mon 13^th Feb     Exhibition take-down. Group 2 delegate tasks to all 1.30pm.

Submission requirements:

Tuesday 7^th Feb 2012, AB145, 4pm.

A3 group document outlining the concept, instructions, materials, cad drawings.

PDF presentation for client to be shown 2^nd Feb 2012 aim for approx 8 slides.

Document to be clearly labelled and including a group work evaluation.

All group submissions to contain the Study Week individual research.

This submission forms part of the Design Studio module.