Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. - Frank Gehry

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Focus Week - Commencing 15 May 2010

With all my major deadlines dealt with, the last week of our second year was a focus week.
During this week I decided to visit Kingston Museum, which was hosting an art exhibition funded by Artgym.

The aim of this exhibition was to, bring together the residents of Kingston from different cultures and generations.

I found this exhibition interesting, as different forms of art pieces was produced to represents the relationship from the past present and future.

Different forms of art pieces varied from paintings, collages, billboards, a form of wind chimes to simple boxes with diagrams and information.

It was interesting to see art pieces from different age groups, and how the specific age groups think about the 'past, present and the future'.

An interesting feature at this exhibition was the 'response wall' which seemed to be very busy. It was a way for visitors to leave feedback, which is a feature lacking in many of todays exhibitions.




During this week, i also visited Fairfield park to improve skills on measuring trees and tree canopies (MAINLY without a measuring tape)

As i often found it hard to measure these features with a tape measure (especially when alone) I spent time thinking of a way to measure it by the amount of steps I took to cover the required ground.

This proved to be very helpful, and I definitely feel it was time well spent.

My most interesting finding: 10 steps measures out roughly 5m60.

This could make it easy to measure canopies if i was to walk from one end of the tree covering to the end of the tree covering.





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