In our collective groups of Interactive Arts, Fashion Art Direction, Fashion and Interior Design we were given a brief to collaborate together on the final project of our academic year.
A project to inspire cross-disciplinary collaboration, inspiration and invention. Using your discipline specific knowledge as teams of creative specialists each group will propose, pitch and design installations/ interventions around themes of the Museum of Imaginative Knowledge.
Through a series of initial inspiration lectures and workshops, collaborative groups are asked to propose a response to the Museum of Imaginative Knowledge by identifying a unifying theme in which to base installations utilising the specialist skills of group members... Your work in your final installation will act as an interface between the Museum and the audience, between the imaginary and the real.
Each group will establish a theme of inquiry, then as specialist discipline specific teams invent responses that depict elements of space, body, interaction and art direction... Your final response to the ‘Museum of Imaginative knowledge’ will exist as a holistic installation based around specialist view points on your shared group theme.
Keywords for brainstorming: ephemeral, imaginary, mythical, everyday, psycho-geographical, choreographed, interface, human, macro/ micro, observed, obsessed, spatial, soundscape, metaphysical, wabi-sabi, Liminal
As an Interior Design student myself, we were faced with the task of working with three other disciplines that we haven't yet encountered. Working with multiple ideas to create our own ‘Museum of Imaginative Knowledge’
A spatially based response experimenting with narrative, scale, materiality and light. Propose space, investigate experience and materialise your ideas as designed ‘simulations’ in reponse to the brief.
1. Apply and reflect on teamwork and leadership skills.
2. Recognise the broad context of art and design practice.
3. Generate creative artwork in response to a collaborative, interdisciplinary brief. 4. Present solutions and articulate ideas to a peer audience