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01. to make contact with a variety of people in different roles (relative to your CoP where possible) to inform the development, position and realisation of your project

Brainstorm!

Above is a photo of the group working solid-ly to find the different types waste that exist. We did a number of different brainstorms at this point, and explore a lot of areas of waste, We started of with the definition of waste.

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Working together

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At this point we worked very well together. Each person had their own particular role and there were no arguments! As a group we listened to one another in the early stages of the project. But little did we know what would happen later on! Newsprint and felt tip pens were our chosen material and media at this point. Allowing us to right down as much as we could

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WASTE!MONEY

ENERGY

SERVICES

SPACETIME


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What is Waste?W

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WASTE!SERVICES

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OUR WASTE.

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We managed to summarize waste into a number of differ-ent types of waste.; Money, Energy, Services, Time and Space. Waste can be considered in many different contexts. All of these types of waste can easily be put into these categories. At this stage we decided to all go out and find some research over the weekend and try and identify the types of waste that we see in our day to day life.

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05. Below are a series of photos of waste that I personally see in my day-to-day life. I work at a bike shop in Camden town three days a week.

Primary Research

AT WORK!On the left you can see the size of the shop floor. There are many bikes, and many are sold over the weekend. Meaning that the selec-tion of bikes changes fairly regularly. Bikes are delivered almost everyday! There is a huge amount of pack-aging that doesn’t get recycled! Paper and cardboard are the big-gest wasters. (listen to audio 1 and 2).

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Primary Research

Paper wasteI took a video to show just how much paper Evans Cycles waste as a company. This happens on a regular basis! See paper shred video.

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07. Below is some secondary research that we carried out as a group.

Secondary Research

AT WORK!As a group we tried to identify any waste within the university. Everyone mention the amount of people outside smoking and talking. Fag butts are everywhere in the front of the university. This is wasted too! We found a series of photos that use cigarettes in a creative way. No one would be willing to pick them all up! But it was an idea and concept that we looked into.

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Above is an image of the out-side of a gas container. This is also a huge waste of space as the area is not used for gas any more. How would you utilize the space?

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WASTED SPACES.

Explore...Wasted space was a category of waste that we were very interested in. Two members of the group explore some areas of potential waste. Here are some of the photos. There was a big empty house on the edge of Hampstead Heath, which they explored. Euston hospital was another location, completely empty space on a number of floor! Waste of space seemed like a very interesting aspect for us to explore! It was an area of unknown and we were attracted to this as a group.

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WASTED SPACES.

These two photos are in Eus-ton hospital. A huge baron building with nothing in it

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Initial pitch proposal

TheDerelictProject.

As our pitch presentation was coming up. We wanted to look into waste of space, as a concept. But we needed to find a way in which to allow feedback from other people. The derelict project was the name, our aim was to “to raise awareness and to re-use wasted spaces across the capital, in a way that will benefit local communi-ties.” We decided to make a twitter and instagram account. The idea was to get the public involved in promoting areas of waste space. For example taking a photo of Heygate estate and tag it as “#THEDER-ELICTPROJECT” This way we could help promote idea and concepts to regenerate the areas.

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Initial pitch proposal

TO RAISE AWARENESS AND TO RE-USE WASTED SPACES ACROSS THE CAPITAL, IN A WAY THAT WILL BENEFIT LOCAL COMMUNITIES.

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REGENERATING SPACE.

Heygate Estate.Above are is an example of an area that has been regenerated in ways. Hey-gate estate is a huge project based near elephant and castle. There is no one in it, and nothing happening to it. The local council organized a series of events to use the space in a creative way. They carried go cart races, workshops in the build-ings and so on. This idea was very interesting as a potential project for us. We admired the idea of regener-ating a space through some sort of event.

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REGENERATING SPACE.

The problem was that this kind of project would take time and potentially money. Because this project had to be carried out in the space of spring term. Contacting people and waiting for re-plies took way too long. We had to think of something that got instant feed back. Something that would en-able use to solve a problem very quickly.

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Tim Mitchell

Above is a photograph of a fraction of a navy warship. The project was carried out by Tim Mitchell. He is an artist/ photographer who was very interested by the deconstruction of big things. During the week of people presenting the students with their ideas and concepts, he was one of the most outstanding for me. He ex-plained his full thoughts as an artist and photographer, inspiring a lot of us young creatives. The most interesting thing he showed use was a time-lapse video of the boat being taking apart through a long period of time. It was very interesting to see the process over a number of mintuites.

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To the left are a series of photos that he took during the same time of the time-lapse. The two above are photos of some of the men who were part of taking the boat down. And the bottom image is the base of the boat.

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17. The next four pages consist of further secondary research on re used areas

Re-used Spaces.W

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The majority of photos have been taken in a car park in Peckham. At the top of the car park is a bar and kitch-en. There is a fantastic view and the venue has been used for a number of events, For example the 2011 film festival, with screenings on the lower levels. On the right are some photos of other re used space ideas. The top is of a New York railway be-ing changed into a garden

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Re-used Spaces.

On the left is a massive series of buildings on the coast of Singapore. They have used the roof space in order to grow plants and gardens. A lot of roof space is wasted in many locations across the world. The image below shows us a solar panel on a floating platform in New York. Us-ing space that is potentially wasted usually

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The image above is very bazar. On top of a what looks like a shopping mall or public building, is a number of residential housing with gardens! This image helps to really explain the use of space to its full potential.

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What to do next?

We realized that it would take a lot of time and ef-fort to make an event in a unused area in London. It would of involved a lot of email writing and waiting for replies. So regenerat-ing an area was out of the question.

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We decided to start to use the project in university at LCC. This way we could get feedback and results instantly. As soon as we decided this, me and another member of the group asked almost every technician at the university if we could interview them. We showed them the questions first, then when they were ready filmed and interviewed. We got some very interesting results instantly and felt much better about the project. On the next couple pages there are number of in-terviews and feedback, which were originally recorded on camera but not used in the documentary. Read through the interviews, you will start to see a pattern in what they mention and have a strong opinion about.

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The People Involved

What Spaces are not used?

“My name is Graham Godwater, and I’m a techni-cian in the photography department. The building as a whole is a 1960s build. And the needs of the student and what’s taught in the ar-eas has changed a lot. The layout of the building has be-come a real rabbit warren, as areas were built and them dismantled and then used for something else.”

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My name is john prefer and I’m an IT technician. The tower block could do with refurbishing, it needs to be modernized. It’s very old and it’s a typical 60s building that needs bring-ing into the 21st century. Better classrooms facilities, easier access for people. I would endeavor to make the canteen a bigger space, at lunch times it is very busy. You can’t have a private con-versation with anybody!”

“I think the whole place could be redesigned! Just opened up a little bit more, there too many rooms that are boxed in. I think the structure of the building should be identifies clearer. Ie the workshop block”

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Students

We made a survey for students to fill out. Now that we have already interviewed and asked technicians. It was time to see what the students had to say. Most of them had a lot of inter-esting information to share. They also had similar answers to the technicians in some questions. We tried to ask people in different courses so to get a wide range of answers.

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Students

“For me, I have found that the canteen is exceptionally busy and loud! I would love to eat there is it wasn’t so loud and crammed in! an area that I would change would most probably be the tower. It isn’t very nice at the moment and could be im-proved a lot. I love the new digital space though! Use it all the time!”

“The typo café is really busy, the line is really long! The film students have an amaz-ing area; the media block which we can’t use. So many students don’t know about the amazing facili-ties of the university. I really like the new digital space, I don’t know what I would do with out it.”

“A lot of the floors on the tower block are not being used a lot of the time, the facilities don’t work to well up there! The structure of the tower block isn’t very good, I think that could be improved a lot.”

“There a lot of areas that I didn’t even know existed until this year, this is my third year here! The digital space is good, I really like the little booths, they give a really relaxed atmosphere when working”

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Where do you think the busiest part of the university is and why?

What is your favourite part of the university and why?

Have you been to the new digital space?

Questions.Above are some of the questions we asked through a num-ber of interviews, Both to students and technicians. I was very interesting to see what came out of all of this. With all of this feedback we identified specific rooms, spaces or problems that needed to be changed instantly in the university.

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What we found.

Above are some of the questions we asked through a num-ber of interviews, Both to students and technicians. I was very interesting to see what came out of all of this. With all of this feedback we identified specific rooms, spaces or problems that needed to be changed instantly in the university.

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Below are two images of a space round the back of the university. The technician in the letterpress department told us to check it out. It is an area that students could easily use if it was transformed into a space. Of course money is need to change the area but in the long run it would use the space in a posi-tive way.

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To the right is a photo of the new digital space. A lot of positive feedback from this space has been given by everyone.

To the left is a photo of the typo café, as you can see it is a small space and a busy one too. This could be changed in some way in order for people to move in and out.

On the right is a photo of the canteen. At lunch the place is too busy! These also could be changed in a way that utilizes the space in some way.

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Les Claridge is essentially a space director of the university. His job is to make sure the spaces are fit for purpose and that the univer-sity does everything we want it to do. “To use the budget in such a fashion that you make it as affective as you can” Les Claridge is an important player for us to contact and share information with when relating to the brief. The documentary we make will by a finished product to show to fellow student and staff but essentially an outcome to show to Les Claridge as it will enable him to understand what students think as a whole on the university.

On the right is an image of the documentary being shown to fel-low students.

Who to Show

Les Claridge

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During this group project, I was able to learn how to use final cut pro. Because we decided to make a documentary, we were forced to edit with a program a little more advanced than imovie. This skill will enable me to pro-duce a lot more work in film now that I have leant the basics of final cut pro.

Skills.W

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Below are a series of photos of me on Indesign. One of my roles within the group project was to carefully design the PDF layout for the exhibition. I looked at a number of layouts and designed the symbols for some of the proposals.

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Photography

Here is the Library Symbol, a book is an obvious object to relate to a library

I.T room, againa computer is easy to relate to a com-puter room.

Digital room. carefully considering the characteris-tics of digital to design this symbol,

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Screen printing was by far the hardest symbol to design. you need to think of something that instantly tell you what it is.

Book binding, again con-sidering the purpose of why you go to this workshop facility.

Typocafe, most people buy a coffee or tea

A drill an be associated with 3d work. This is why i designed it like this.

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Here are a series of photos that show how the signage system would work around the college. It consists of lines on the floor that will enable students to find where the facilities and workshops are located.

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A signage system seemed like the most obvious proposal from all the feed back we got. A lot of people still didn’t know where certain workshop or facilities were. This idea would easy solve the recurring problem at university. It would be a case of simply following the coloured line with the symbols and workshop you need.

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On this page, we though of a designated room which would allow students to freely speak their mind on the subject of the university. Considering space layout and practicality of the place. This would enable the staff to identify what need to be improved on a daily basis.

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The idea is to have a chair and camera. The camera would be recording all day. Students would walk in when passing by and tell the camera what they think needs to be improved. This way staff would know what needs to be done or what could be improved to satisfy the students needs,

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The last proposal was similar to the discussion room, but through a network. We would create a discussion board on blackboard officially. This would again enable student to express their views on the subject university. Not only can they write on the board about what they think. But also communi-cate with one another on the topic of university and the space being used properly

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Below is an image of blackboard to date. It would essentially be the same but give you an option to click on discussion board, and then let you write what you would want to say !

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With the final outcome of the project being a documentary. We needed to decide as a group how to help get our point across through film. We decided to use captions to introduce the idea that we wanted the viewers to think. Then relate this to the footage that we had from the interviews. This worked very well, and gave the exact impression we needed.

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Reflect

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I found that working in a group has its positives and negatives. First of all, it is very important that you consider each persons view and opinion. If this not carried out there is no creative flow people just want to hear their own opinion and no on else’s. This causes conflict between the group and the project does not develop. You have to except that people have different ways of working that do not necessarily compliment yours! Time and planning is essential and needs to be followed for a project to go well.

I felt that working in my group, a lot of the time, people did not consider each others views at a level that satisfied each other. There were two sides to the group at the end of the project. Editing a documentary became very difficult and at one point the group almost decided to make two different documentaries with the same footage! But we eventually all agreed that this was a silly idea and unprofessional. So we went onto edit the documentary all together.

I have learnt that it is exceptionally important to identify the roles of each person. If two people do the same job at the same time, there is nowhere near as much work carried out, obviously. Our pitch presentation went okay, I felt that certain people put way more effort in than others. Which is unfair as it is a group project. Through the weeks after the pitch we decided as a group to change what the project was about. We based it around uni and instantly did a lot more work because of this. At this stage in the project we worked hard as a team. Two people would interview students and staff while the others wrote up a survey on monkey survey. All of this added up to build the base of a solid project with a lot of primary research.

Despite the positive period in the project, shortly after it started to break down again, as people didn’t make an effort to stay in contact and other deadlines came around. We all needed to make way more of an effort at this point, be-cause it was a very busy stage. Not only were there other deadlines, but green week was round the corner!!! Luckily for another team mate and me, we live together so a lot of work was carried out in the late hours at home. But if we didn’t have this element to the progression of work as a team, many aspects of the project would have been a lot harder.

I have a learnt a huge amount on final cut pro and a little on premier pro. This was because of the editing carried out to make the documentary. It was one of the first times I have properly used my camera to film. These skills or necessary for me to continue in any other project later on if I want to do filming.¬


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I have also developed my skills in symbol making and have expanded my abil-ity on the actual design of the symbols. I have built up my confidence in asking questions in interviews and when pitching in front of a number of people my idea or concept is well presented.

I have learnt a lot about the University; student’s views on the place, techni-cian’s views and how it has changed over the years, who’s in charge of the design and space of the university, What areas are liked and disliked. I have discovered new hidden areas of the university that I never new existed. This project gives me the potential to change an aspect of the university in terms of it’s practicality and purpose for the use and convenience of other students. Making a signage system for the university seems to be a necessity from all the feedback I have gathered in my group. I is interesting to find out that this project has identified a real life problem that needs to be solved.

Unfortunately I have no interest in working with certain members of the group, purely because they do not consider other people views or opinions. Some people need to learn that it is not an individual project. We all have to make sacrifices in order for the progression of the project to move smoothly.

Through this project I admired other groups in the way they worked together. I saw new friendships occur through the weeks. Seeing other groups work well motivated me to look forward to the next collaborative project as enable made me think that a lot can be done and it can look exceptionally impressive. Unfor-tunately we were not the group to be chosen on green week. This was because we never really worked well as a team. The project did not quite progress until much later on, which was partly all of our faults.

To summaries the project, I have made new friends, learnt many new skills through technology and learnt new skills socially too. I have learnt more about the history of the collage. There are new places for me to go and work. I have built new relationships with technicians and other students. I have expanded my knowledge of symbol making and learnt a huge amount on what I can do with my canon 650d! I feel very motivated to take proposal one further and try and come up with some designs potentially over Easter holidays to then show other teachers and staff. People like Les claridge would be a very important person to contact about making a signage system for the university. It has been a mixed experience from my point of view, but the skills I have learnt overcome the negatives of this project and I look further on to the next stage!

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