The Drawing Board

‘The Drawing Board’ is a team of architecture students from SAUL, the School of Architecture at the University of Limerick. They were asked to contribute to the Table of Contents exhibition. The exhibition curators from LSAD, the Limerick School of Art and Design, are looking for an indoor installation to facilitate the viewing of a short documentary film. The conception and design of this installation will become part of the exhibition as an exemplar of architectural creativity.

Across the board

Monday, 12th July, 2010.

Process and ideas to date were presented to the exhibition curators. They appreciated the visual nature of mapping our thought process, to place ideas within a context of themes and to trace possible relations between them. Ideas suggesting a level change (stairs, platform…) emerged as the most appealing so far. Upon assessing them back on site, ‘reality issues’ forced us to return to the drawing board.

Ideas taking shape

Friday, 9th July, 2010.

We continued work on writing the brief, getting a solid grip on the actual space of the church gallery and established further connections between ideas that, so far, existed in isolation within our field of concern: slowness – movement – threshold – change of experience. There will be further questions for our clients about sustainability and the role of the documentary within the exhibition.

Please, donate to art

Thursday, 8th July, 2010.

Peter Morgan (curator): I wrote down a couple of things here; and you can have this. It's multi purpose, re-useable, i.e. sustainable, so that what you make, doesn’t just serve the function of the show now that we are curating and creating now but has a life beyond that. Yeah so it isn’t just for this but could be used again in the future.

Brainstorming

Wednesday, 7th July, 2010.

How, what, where and why. We condensed our ideas into four points.
1. See the space differently (effect)
2. Changing speed of viewers
3. Threshold
4. Promenade (the movement through the space)

Surveying the Church Gallery

Tuesday, 6th July, 2010.

Peter Morgan (Curator): Exactly. Although it’s big, it’s also small this space and it’s an awkward space in lots of ways as you can see with the divisions and the lines, its quite a problematical space in lots of ways, so yeah.

First meeting with the clients

Monday, 5th July, 2010.

Róisín Lewis (Curator): I am just curious as to, like we’re like sort of practising artists, and I have collaborated a few times but I am just wondering how the team will work creatively, you know the way like for any project I suppose there is this maybe a moment of poetry or something where you are inspired and how do you deal with that?