UNITE
PROF - DANIEL ROEHR
A5 - USING OUR HANDS
06/10/23
49.26048742019998, -123.25082245950983
A1 - Time to Align
A2 - Adding Dimension
A3 - Mapping
A4 - Above, At & Below Ground
A5 - Using Our Hands
A6 - 1 - Tactile Body Space
A6 - 2 - Flow of Experience
A7 - 1 - Forest vs Engine
A8 - 1 - Tuning In & Windplay
A8 - 2 - Sonicollage
A9 - Smell Notes
A10 - 1 - Taste Rave
A10 - 2 - Drinking Object
A11 - 1 - Seeing > Visual Thinking
A11 - 2 - Pattern—Re—Pattern
A12 - Summary
From Syllabus:
Our bodies continuously engage with the spaces that we exist in. In this exercise we will be examining the movements that our bodies go through as they engage in space. Choose a room, hallway or outdoor space and begin to consciously evaluate your body’s interactions with your chosen space.
Take, for example the following scenario of a staircase. Consider the following questions as your body engages with it:
- How do your feet touch the ground?
- Is there a pattern to the number of steps taken at a time? Do you skip steps or take each step?
- How do your legs move as you take one step at a time vs. multiple steps at a time? How does the rest of your body move?
- How does the railing feel? How do you hold the railing? Do you extend your arm or are you close to the railing?
- If you were to sit on a step, is it comfortable? Do you extend your legs or have them at a 90° angle?
- If you were to notate the steps you take in plan view, what would that look like?
This exercise does not necessarily need to be hand drawn - digital or modelling tools can also be used.
Process
I enjoyed watching people’s eyes track the location of the landing on stairways in relation to their bodies. Then when we visited forestry building I met the custodian there. We had a nice chat about the buildings on campus. What struck me the most that day was the contrast between the seating experiences in the engineering building and the forestry building. Even the walls, colours, textures, smells, sounds. Everything was different. I wanted to depict that the best way I could. Ideally I’d have you the reader touch and be intimate with these seating typologies that represent the buildings to me.