Pattern Theme

This gift represents the green spaces around CoLab Dudley and the connections they have to the high street. The black point marks the location of the High Street and the other pins mark each green space within the High Street’s immediate location. The lines act as a travel route that you may take in order to get from one green space to another. From this we can establish that there is a lack of greenery in some spaces. This then impacts the High Street as people do not need to use it as a travel route. By simply creating more of these green spaces like in the top right it will add more connections to the High Street which will draw more people to this particular location.

Model Connection Gift Interacting Invitations Missing Access Change Future Imagination Moving Nature Pattern People Potential Plantlife Colour Making

The top edge on the Duncan Edwards Memorial statue in the market square. What you're looking at is fossilised sea life of a good million + years ago.

Photo Aesthetic Archaeology Beauty Change Craft Creatures Exposed Hiding Layer Life Material Nature Past Pattern Surprise Texture Tiny Things Old

Hoarding knot 18mm

Drawing Text Might rain later Tiny Things Craft Control Pattern

Trad ground materials + patterns

Text Drawing Cloudy Identity Material Old Past Familiar Pattern

The themes I investigated were the Connections, Movement, Routes and Ways. My gift explores those themes through a figurative expression hidden within the structure of the dreamcatcher, allowing for a flexible interpretation by the audience, and to aid the imagination. The structure of the dreamcatcher symbolizes the relationship between the destination and the journey the user undertakes, but while it highlights the importance of the destination, placing it in the centre as the biggest piece, it emphasizes the significance of the journey over the destination in the ratio of one big element vs many small elements. This can be relevant to the High Street, if the connections are thought of beyond the transport means, and can relate to anything from the layout of the landscape of the High Street, to the interactions between the users. The web symbolizes the connections between the pieces, plotting the blue foam pieces around the different lengths of the thread, off the centre where the destination piece is plotted. This is meant to show how the connections can be made in various ways and that there is no set order or pattern, meaning that the movement is individual and the connections are adaptable. The blue foam pieces can be viewed as points or highlights of the journey, or they can represent different ways of getting to, and from the centre, suggesting that the journey doesn’t end with the destination. Another way in which the web can be interpreted is that the small foam pieces are the destinations, the thread is the connection between them and the big piece symbolizes the decision making.

Collage Model Text Thought Making Material Moving Gift Creativity Imagination Connection Big Things Tiny Things Transport Interacting Pattern Difference

Paving stones

Text Drawing Warm Drizzly Connection Material Pattern

This gift was created to highlight different points in the social spaces on the high street. Aspects that we can improve on and celebrate. One point found was to incorporate more green spaces to improve health and wellbeing. The other to celebrate the textures and embossings in Dudley’s early ironworking. These ornaments were created by melting sweets and printing patterns onto them.

Model Other visual delight Text Thought Creativity Craft Making Material Gift Difference Opportunity Potential Colour Nature Plantlife Pattern Past Industry Beauty Aesthetic Identity Food

It's funny how the street is jammed with parked cars @ 5:30pm

Text Cloudy 10C Dark Funny Stories Vehicle Pattern Traffic Transport

Street scale patchwork Investigating Facade Damage will highlight where the repair needs to be undertaken. It is creating an irregular pattern of repair that evolves. Only intervene when necessary; this proposal will not ‘repair what does not need fixing’ as it appreciates there could be a negative effect on an already declining high street. Repairs will be constructed with the materials grown on the street as part of the Macro-scale intervention.

Diagram Drawing Imagining Text Photo Textile Sustainable Regenerative Potential Opportunity Architecture Change Decay Unused Aesthetic Repair Care Broken Pattern Material Growing Nature Plantlife Imagination Climate

Time waits for nothing... eco-system / interconnectedness / sonification / patterns / systems / vocalisation / chance / cause & effect

Text Decay Nature System Connection Sounds Pattern Voice Chance

Road - kerb bricks

Text Drawing Pouring Rainy Tiny Things Material Pattern

Small graffiti

Drawing Text Might rain later Tiny Things Pattern Creativity