henkel elliot 3236909 iup folio 2010 by informal urban

STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

PORTFOLIO

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ADMIT ONE- My project attempts to provide a means for people to relieve themselves from the stresses of everyday life, through the divulgence of their secrets through the confession booth titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Admit Oneâ&#x20AC;? and the letter drop around different places in melbourne. I was lead to this project through the experiments taken throughout the semester, where we documented and partook in activities informally in the urban space of Melbourne and the surrounding suburbs. I was interested in secrets and confessions, and thought it would be interesting to see the results from this process in the public forum. STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

1. Project presentation

First experiment- Public Confession Booth logo-unsuccesful

Letter drop location

Booth being used, Latrobe St

The project is about secrets and confessions, and the release of these secrets and confessions. The people who participate can be anyone, passing by the “Admit One” booth, or anyone who picked up a yellow envelope with a small message on it and had the courage to open it. The people who are willing to participate hopefully shared a genuine interest in the project and felt their involvement was just as valuable to them as it was to me, and the project. The Monday to Friday, nine to five life is a stressful thing. Wake up, breakfast, train to work, sit at a desk all day in front of a computer, train home then sit in front of your 42” plasma TV before doing it all again. Something to break up this

cycle, make you have a think about what you are doing, and hopefully relieve you. I approached the project in the ways I did as I thought it would fit in well with my ideas. Initially the booth was labelled “Public Confession Booth” which did not work, as I think it had too much of a religious tone to it. And was also uninviting. The next step was to take a different approach, where I would invite the people into the booth with an image of “ADMIT ONE” similar to an old style movie or carnival ticket. This method attracted much more curiosity and a lot more involvement from the public.

Another approach I took was initiated in the public forum, and could be completed and better thought out in a private place they desired. Although I dropped 25 of the envelopes placed around the city, I have only so far received one response which is very lengthy and not so much of a confession more a response to my project, although I enjoyed the response greatly. The envelope contained a lollipop, a letter from me asking for participation and an addressed envelope with a stamp.

STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

2. Project description

Upper pool studio learning objectives statement Through the studio I achieved a growth in the area of social interaction mostly. My project attempted to gain the publics involvement. This was a hard process and took many changes and required me to rethink my methods of gaining this involvement. My presumptions of gaining involvement led me to create a non-inviting, daunting task for the general public. The changes made through different branding from “PUBLIC CONFESSION BOOTH” to “ADMIT ONE” displayed similarly to an old theatre ticket, put the project in working order. This showed how my critical, knowledgeable, creative thinking and reflective abilities have developed over the semester. I was able to work within the deadlines of the class schedule although my time was not managed entirely well, I was always prepared for presentations, which occurred almost weekly throughout the semester, which led me to spend less time focusing on my final project. My strategies were clear, and once the structures of my two experiments were set up they worked well. Public places like Rmit’s Bowen Ln and Latrobe St were good places to set up the booth, as they had high foot traffic, but were not hugely populated with stationary people to observe the involvement. I chose Brunswick St for my main place to drop the letters as it has a high amount of artists, students and “creative types” which I thought would appreciate my project and inturn take part in it. Although I dropped around 20 envelopes in the Fitzroy area, I only received one response which did not take part in my project more gave a commentary on it which I enjoyed the most out of any response to my project so far.

Envelopes. Messages that motivated people to pick them up

Specific studio learning objectives statement The Studio in its nature of informality was very experimental, and selfdirected. As a group we worked on attracting the publics attention and creating involvement through the use of public games such as twister and hop scotch. These experiments were generally partook in by younger people. The twister was popular with the teenage age group, and hop scotch more popular with younger children of primary school age. The opportunity to work interdisciplinary was there but I did not use it to my advantage and worked with industrial design students almost solely throughout the semester. This was due to the interest in similar topics with Tim who I worked with during the last six weeks in our projects. I developed my project specific techniques through trial an error. Having never created a public involvement installation before I found it hard to get the public to partake in the project. But after trials with different logos, different variations of the booth I achieved my goal in getting public participation, although the letter drop was not successful. This showed my creativity and also my ability to reflect on my work and modify it to create a positive result. The issues with urbanization, and a nine to five lifestyle were addressed through my project by obtaining involvement, the participants hopefully relieved some of the stress they were feeling from work, study or whatever was causing them stress at the time. I believe I succeeded in this goal as many of the participants took around four minutes in the booth to write under ten words. This shows me that they genuinely thought about what they were writing. Also five minutes out of someones day to stop thinking about work, rushing to get the train and money might help them think about whats really important to them. insert short caption if necessary

STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

Take over of Hosier Lane

Booth on the move

Original logo/branding

New logo/branding

Mail drop/envelope drop

Response to mail drop

3. Learning Testimonial

RMIT Industrial Design

U PPER PO O L DESIG N STU DIO S – LEARN IN G CO N TRACT Your name: elliot henkel Your student number: #3236909 Your student email address: s3236909@student.rmit.edu.au Which studio tutorial are you undertaking this semester? Informal Urban Practices Tutor’s name: Mick Douglas

What level studio course are you enrolled in this semester?

GRAP 1034 Grap 1035 Grap 2221 Design Studio 4 Design Studio 5 Design Studio 6 Read the attached different level of expectations for different levels 4, 5 & 6 of studio courses. Briefly discuss what capabilities you are aiming to learn / develop and what challenges you will set for yourself in this studio tutorial: I am aiming for a distinction to lift my gpa above 2, so it will be possible to take part in exchange in the future. This studio interested me from the start through its informality. The focus of the class being in Melbourne’s urban setting was also enticing, as I spend a lot of time on the streets of Melbourne and it’s surrounding suburbs. Melbourne being quite liberal in it’s approach to street art through things like the laneway commission show its belief in the value of public art. This studio will allow me to perform a practice in the streets of Melbourne which I would like to achieve at a high level.

Please circle the grade that you are aspiring to attain in this course. Your lecturer will then have a clear idea of your actual level of your commitment to the course in view of what you aim to learn and how you aim to demonstrate that learning through assessment tasks: (see over for description of what each grade means) CR Credit 60- 69%

DI Distinction 70- 79%

HD High Distinction 80- 100%

STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

GRAP 1034 Grap 1035 Grap 2221 Design Studio 4 Design Studio 5 Design Studio 6 Read the attached different level of expectations for different levels 4, 5 & 6 of studio courses. Briefly discuss what capabilities you are aiming to learn / develop and what challenges you will set for yourself in this studio tutorial: In this studio I intend to develop my understanding in which the way the public react to abnormalities and obstructions in the public domain, as their actions interest me greatly, however I wish to achieve a much greater understanding of the reasons behind these actions. The informal nature of the class appealed to me, the self motivated, self directed nature of the class I believe will help me mature as a student, and although the class is not such a strict industrial design subject as previous studios, I believe the processes will help me grow and build my confidence in unfamiliar tasks. The act of doing something in public out of the ordinary is not something I am used to but after the tasks completed so far I have gained much more confidence and want to continue building that confidence.

In signing and lodging this form I agree to • an active class participation rate of no less than 80% (minimum 80% attendance and participation) • engaging in all peer review and presentation activities • submit all assessment tasks on the due date as specified by the tutorial outline Signed:

U PPER PO O L DESIG N STU DIO S – LEARN IN G CO N TRACT Your name:elliot henkel Your student number: #3236909 Your student email address: 3236909@student.rmit.edu.au Which studio tutorial are you undertaking this semester? Informal Urban Practices Tutor’s name: Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel

What level studio course are you enrolled in this semester?

PA Pass 50-59%

RMIT Industrial Design

CR Credit 60- 69%

DI Distinction 70- 79%

HD High Distinction 80- 100%

Date:25/07/10

Signed:

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

Date:18/10/2010

Learning Contract & Revised Learning Contract

INFORMAL URBAN PRACTICE

Mid-semester self-assessment

Student name: Elliot Henkel Import the above criteria

CRITERIA 1

Ability to work in a group as a valuable member.

Use of online resources

Confidence to communicate in non familiar situations

Documenting of experiences and investigations Ability to implement ideals on social construct to informal urban practices

STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

Depth of investigation

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

What indicates the current levels of your performance and achievement in the studio against each criteria? Describe in detail the indicators (evidence) of quality at the level of performance you honestly believe you have achieved so far. In less detail, describe what would indicate if you had achieved above or below your proposed level. SATISFACTORY GOOD VERY GOOD OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS INDICATORS INDICATORS INDICATORS Sat back, did not speak up Helped come to Worked well in the group, Helped manage the group, in group decision making, conclusions, presented listened to all other presented ideas extremely did not have a great input thoughts members, communicated well, helped other well with the group members communicate Completed tasks with Worked well with the blog Valuable contributions Exemplary contribution to minimal effort, did not format, contributed to the outside of required tasks the blog contribute to the blog more blog above the required than was compulsory level Did not attempt to Attempted to Determined approach to Highly determined intervene in assignments, intervene/communicate communicating/intervening approach to in public and in class when needed in public in the public and class communicating/intervening and class environment in the public and class environment Minimal documenting Well documented Documented well, Creative documenting and exploring different formats experimenting with formats Depth of thoughts lacking Considered the Good understanding of Exemplary understanding into social construct acceptance of practices social construct lead to of social construct, leading well on social construct fitting practice and to suitable research and research practice Barely scratched the Minimal investigation Well investigated Exemplary investigation surface

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

Learning Contract & Revised Learning Contract

INFORMAL URBAN PRACTICE

1. articulate your aspirations for the studio and propose a means for self-assessment

Student name: Elliot Henkel

STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

What do you aspire to learn through the studio? Clearly propose the most important 6 or more aspects of learning and achievement (in few words) that you aspire to measure your work against.

What is likely to indicate different levels of your performance and achievement against each criteria? Describe in detail the indicators (evidence) of quality at the level of performance that you aspire to achieve. In less detail, describe what will indicate if you have achieved above or below your aspired level.

CRITERIA

!SATISFACTORY" PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Sat back, did not speak up in group decision making, did not have a great input

!GOOD" PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Helped come to conclusions, presented thoughts

Completed tasks with minimal effort, did not contribute to the blog more than was compulsory Did not attempt to intervene in assignments, in public and in class

Worked well with the blog format, contributed to the blog above the required level Attempted to intervene/communicate when needed in public and class

!VERY GOOD" PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Worked well in the group, listened to all other members, communicated well with the group Valuable contributions outside of required tasks

!OUTSTANDING" PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Helped manage the group, presented ideas extremely well, helped other members communicate Exemplary contribution to the blog

Determined approach to communicating/intervening in the public and class environment

Ability to work in a group as a valuable member.

Use of online resources

Confidence to communicate in non familiar situations

Combination of experiences and research into final project

No clear links between research and experiences

Clarity between research and experience ambiguous

Clear links between research and experiences

Documenting of experiences and investigations

Minimal documenting

Well documented

Documented well, exploring different formats

Highly determined approach to communicating/intervening in the public and class environment Research and influence has clearly affected the final outcome, with good reason Creative documenting and experimenting with formats

Ability to implement ideals on social construct to informal urban practices

Depth of thoughts lacking into social construct

Considered the acceptance of practices well on social construct

Good understanding of social construct lead to fitting practice and research

Exemplary understanding of social construct, leading to suitable research and practice

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

Learning Contract & Revised Learning Contract

Copyright Release The School of Architecture + Design at RMIT University seeks to publicise high quality work that is undertaken by students and staff. Your work is your copyright. You are asked to grant your permission for RMIT to utlise examples of your work. Typically this means we would like to show your work on our website, at public lectures, in exhibitions and / or in a print publication. In order to do this we seek your non-exclusive copyright permission.

I Elliot Henkel (insert your name) of 84 St Leonards Rd Ascot Vale, Vic, 3032 (insert your address) give my permission to RMIT University to reproduce and communicate my work outlined below in a non-exclusive copyright. …...……………………………………………………………………………………………………… work submitted for Upper Pool Studio course Grap 1034 / 1035 / 2221 in semester 2, 2010, as part of the Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) degree program. ..………………………………………………………………………………………………………. I give my permission for the copyright work mentioned above to be utilised for the following purposes: • •

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Made available for public screening and/or exhibiting and/or broadcasting. Made available in electronic format for public digital presentations and on the worldwide-web promoting Industrial Design Program, the School of Architecture & Design at RMIT and the research of School staff. Made available on CD-DVD for screening, broadcasting and viewing purposes. Made available in printed book publication format to be distributed internationally. Made available in print and electronic formats for the purposes of a publisher, as directed by RMIT and its representatives.

I acknowledge that no fee is payable for supplying this work and granting this permission. I understand that my work will be accompanied by a stated credit identifying the work as my work.

Signed: (insert your signature)

Date:25/10.2010

Student Number: #3236909

STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

Paths of investigation

STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

Paths of investigation

STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

Paths of investigation

STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

Paths of investigation

STUDIO TITLE: TUTOR:

(INformal urban practices) Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel)

STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

Paths of investigation

STUDIO TITLE:

TUTOR:

(INformal urban practices)

Semester 2, 2010 (Mick Douglas + Rochus Hinkel) STUDENT NAME:

(Elliot Henkel)

STUDENT NUMBER:

(#3236909)

Mid Semester Proposal Poster

P L A Y . SPORTS. FREEDOM. INSTINCT. EXERCISE. HAPPINESS.

ART. GRAFFITTI. L E G A L . I L L E G A L . V A L U E . VA N D A L I S M . ADVERTISING. APPROPRIATIO N. SCENE. P O P U L A R I T Y. ACCEPTANCE.

TRUST. BELIEF. GOODWILL. A C C E P TA N C E . SECRETS. RELIEF. CONVERSATION. S T R E S S .

elliot HENKEL #3236909

O V E R REGULATIO N. LAWS. PRIVATISATION. FREEDOM. C L A S S . POWER. ECONOMIC S. FEAR. R U L E S . P L A C E . PUBLIC. AWARENESS. CONFIDENC E. SHEEP.