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Design make project - Tribal dwelling montage

Part 4: Design Make

We started to iteratively develop and create six different components of tools and skins that will eventually acts as building materials for our nomadic dwelling. We created skins made of flowers and soft cotton fabric to represent the youthfulness and the femininity of our tribe. The spears to symbolise our claim of territory, as well as to act as structure for the dwelling and weapon for defence and survival. Our dwelling attains qualities of being an open and inviting space constructed using natural materials that could attract the interest of people and will draw them towards it to investigate and question its existence.

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Part 4: Design Make

BTS of creating and setting our iterative components for filming.

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Part 3: Mapping

Individually mapping our way around Monash Caulfield’s Campus Green and illustrating their relationships between one another to determine the most suitable site for our nomadic dwelling.

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Part 2: Tribe Members

As as group, we agreed and defined each member’s role and responsibilities.

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Part 1: Tribe Identity

The beginning of this design-make project allowed us to group into smaller “tribes” and create an identity based on our own habits, rituals, clothing and anything interesting really. I paired myself with Rebecca, and we were both grouped with Farhanah and Sam, as well as Sarah and Millie. Together, we called our tribe (an all female group) Wanawake, which means “women” in Swahili - one of our prominent precedents.

Our tribe looked at multiple other traditional tribes that are led by women or is a matrilineal society run under a matriarchal system. Groups such as the Mosuo women of China (second photo, top right-hand corner) where women celebrated sexual freedom by practising tisese or “Walking Marriages” and created major decision within the household as well as heading it. The Umoja women of Swahili is an all-female matriarch village. Founded by Rebecca Lolosoli, the village serves as a sanctuary for homeless survivors of violence against women - oppressed by forced/arranged marriages. We also looked at contemporary groups such the the Pink Ladies from the film Grease who have individuality and strong sense of characters as a group.

With these tribes and groups to gather inspiration from, our tribe, The Wanawake, can aim to design around the context of women and what it means to be one today in our modern society. We strive not only to design within the ideas of spatial context, but to reflect our identity collectively as a tribe.

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Daisies (1966) by Vera Chytilová

Conceptual design of a nomadic dwelling for the two Marie’s showing materiality as well as incorporating political and social contexts of the film

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Sleeping Vessel in context.

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Transporting our Sleeping Vessel to the first site.

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Mission 3: Materials Context

Working on the measurements for the 1:1 scale Sleeping Vessel using our body creating unflattering poses and exact dimensions with spatialcontext-millie.

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Mission 3: Materials Context

Photomontages with spatialcontext-millie.

We focused more on showing the vessel in its proposed sites and utilised people to get a better understanding of scale in relation to its surroundings. Our design changed from a teepee into a more suitable design in regards to the two active spaces we picked. Highlighting elements such as the suction cups from the bottom of the bathmats to raise the vessel to allow the spaces retain its active nature and avoid interruption of traffic.

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Mission 3: Materials Context

Second iteration - I created the base of the vessel by combining bathmats with foam sewn onto it to create a comfortable resting surfaces. spatialcontext-millie then attached her calico fabric and joined all elements using wire to create a stable and structural vessel.