A NEW WORLD A New World Installation Plan Rachel Ward Creative @thetextilesarchitect Supervisor: Rachael Wickendon Transport your mind away from fragmented, dystopian thoughts and instead imagine a world of colour, individuality, creativity, and expression. Welcome to “A New World”. A conceptual installation with a strong social sustainability angle that explores the power of positive design and imagination in empowering communities to take control of the future. Centred around speculative participatory research, “A New World” explores audiences’ current and ideal future perspectives, resulting in two themes, differentiated through considered use of colour and pattern, and titled: “What Is” and “What If”. Digital versus physical design is a subtheme of this project, demonstrated through hybrid outcomes featuring animation, embroidery, laser cutting and projection. Conceptual, model, public art installation which will help provide a positive future vision to the audience. Include two different design themes. One current consumer perceptions. The second, an aspirational concept. To include conduct both speculative and factual based research to develop an innovative and exciting project. To combine digital and physical designs to create prototypes. Using laser cutting, 3D embroidery, casting and Blender. “Dreams are powerful. They are repositories of our desire. They animate the entertainment industry and drive consumption. They can blind people to reality and provide cover for political horror. But they can also inspire us to imagine that things could be radically different than they are today, and then believe we can progress toward that imaginary world.” (Anthony Dunne, 2013. P.p 1) The Inspiration Moussavi., F, 2009 Olafur Eliasson, 2022 Moussavi., F, 2009 Dejha, 2014. Zaha Hadid Architects, 2014 Syd Mead, 2019 LUX 2021 LUX 2021 Lucy Hardcastle, 2015 Lucy Hardcastle, 2015 Dezeen, 2009 Architen, 2015 “We need a mentality hack: a systemic revolution transcending boundaries between the digital and physical, old and new, craft and technology. It’s time to let go of our tunnel vision when it comes to what’s innovative. There are countless routes to follow with the same goal- living by better practice!” (View Magazine 2021) Current Future Perceptions Ideal Future Perceptions Colour Associations How Many Years From Now? Is This Future Positive Or Negative? Positive Negative 151-200 Phase 1: Survey Current Future Perceptions: - Anger - Frustration - Pollution - Anxiety Ideal Future Perceptions: - Sustainable - Utopia - Nature -Equality Phase 2: Collage Workshops Research Overview The Installation Space: “A New World” will be exhibited at the Gallery of the Future. This gallery has a metal frame structure covered in a waterproof tent like material. This means the installation can be take apart and moved to a new location. “a curator does not always expect a positive response; rather, he or she aims to make a sufficient impression through the curatorial interpretation such that people talk about it in any way, positive or negative.” (Dima, 2016) Side Installation View (Equiptment) “Refract” tunnel “Imagine” tunnel “Cyclone” Projection “Born” Projection “Echo” Projection “Wave” tunnel “Emerge” Sculpture “Implode” Projection “Icosphere” Sculpture “Ripple” Sculpture “Purple Sea” Projection “Synthetic” Wall Hanging Entrance Exit (Installation Info) Installation Floor Plan (Artefacts) Installation Posters Exhibtion Catalogue NFT QR Code WHAT IS. The first half of the exhibition takes you on a journey through the current future perspectives expressed by a target focus group. “What Is.” Features a series of projections and sculptures centred around an unstable and fragmented world, inspired by science fiction, dystopian media, and a homogenised view of a shiny glossy future. There is little humanity to be seen as we no longer take an active role in the future we have created. 1.1 R E F R A C T 1.2 S Y N T H E T I C 1.3 C Y C L O N E 1.5 E C H O 1.6 I M P L O D E 1.4 I C O S P H E R E “Refract” is a laser cut, engraved, three-dimensional wall hanging. To assemble simply screw each individual panel to the supporting tunnel structure. The tunnel should be made from a transparent durable PVC to allow for light transmission through the open triangle panels. This will continue up onto the ceiling scattering shadows into the tunnel, helping the audience to transition from the outside to “A New World”. “Synthetic” is a silicone wall hanging created from a laser cut mould. Silicone curtain will be pleated and hung from the mid supporting beam above the entrance. A split in the curtain will allow people to move through it. It will also sit out a metre from the wall so the audience can walk behind it and peer through to the rest of the installation. “Cyclone” large scale projection centred around shadows and altering the viewers perceptions. Internal View External View This half of the installation will be covered with a large sheet of white material so the supporting beams won’t alter the projection image. The wide lens projector should be attatched to the highest supporting beam and be directed downwards to cover the entire wall. “Icosphere” is a 3D printed sculpture with laser cut panels and a central light. The “Icosphere” represents the “orb” like object often seen in sci-fi media. 160mm 160mm 1600mm 1600mm Sample Size Panel Size “Icosphere” can be placed directly on the floor in the centre of the space, or it can be commissioned smaller and raised into a plinth depending on the application. The central light must be attatched to a plug socket through the base of the structure. “Echo” is a small-scale immersive installation. Contrasting to the reset of the larger projections “Echo” focuses on repetition and standardisation. A white square box will be mounted onto one of the triangle panels. A mini projector will be suspended from a supporting beam and titled downwards, filling the box with the projection. “Implode” will play across different triangular panels in the installation, each showing a different part of the animation. Instead of projectors the animation will be presented on triangular LED panels. This is due to the angles and crossover of light from the projector distorting the animation image. WHAT IF? What If? Focuses primarily on the use of abstract forms to initiate a conversation surrounding ideal future perceptions. The use of explorative digital movements and sculptures aim to find a link between what is possible both in physical and digital realities sparking positive associations. Abstraction is an important design tool for “What If?” encouraging a unique interpretation of the artifacts, feeding off the principles of speculative design where we are search for multiple possibilities rather than one absolute.