The Dott 07 Design Festival October 16-28 situated between the Sage and the Baltic. Website link Dott 07
Email us here for any further information about Mapping the Necklace at the Dott 07 festival.
Disorienteering
What to a passerby are just swings in a playground might be the place
someone had their first kiss, or an old house on the edge of town might
be the first place someone would think to hide if they were in trouble
with the law.... A new perspective can disorient you in even the most
familiar of places. This team will ask residents to reflect on aspects
of their lives in Necklace Park through a series of activities, and help
us map unexpected interpretations of everyday places.
Calling all Disorienteerers
Submitted by jennasingleton on Wed, 2007-04-18 15:46.The disorienteering are busy pulling together our materials and our little challenges and now we are looking for victims/participants/mappers/guinea pigs!
We want to do our mapping over the bank holiday weekend - preferably on the Saturday and need some mappers to help us.
The activity will be simple and fun - we'll arm you with some tools and send you out into the park to explore and disorienteer! You will hopefully come back to us with some interesting thoughts, inspirations and daft pictures (cameras supplied!)
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Let's go disorienteering...
Submitted by jennasingleton on Thu, 2007-03-15 14:53.- Can a map disorientate you?
- What is it to be lost in a place?
- How can the very familiar become disorientating when looked at in a new way?
- How can we reveal the ‘hidden layer’ of potential meanings locked up in space?
- How can some of the more secretive activities that go on in a park be celebrated?
- We orient ourselves using very familiar tried and tested reference points – what if we change these?
- Can we create a map that confuses, excites or even disturbs someone’s experience of the park?
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Image Gallery
Submitted by mappingt on Wed, 2007-03-07 19:37.See photos from Ben and Jenna's recent trip into the Necklace Park here
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Monsters of Necklace Park
Submitted by jennasingleton on Mon, 2007-02-26 17:34.An idea that came to us yesterday whilst we were thinking about our disorienteering map was about monsters. And where would the monsters of necklace park live? what would they look like? what would they eat?
I thought a 'monster map and spotting guide' might be a fun thing for kids - big and small alike - to create.
Any thoughts?
