A few amounts of time ago I went to the Housing Project as part of The State of Design Festival.
It looked a little bit like this (Picture above)It was an interactive exhibition about suburban life shown in little models of clay houses,trees and factories and stuff. The buildings were made by children and adults in the community with Ann Ferguson. The Housing Project presented community workshops in which small ceramic houses and buildings were made by groups of people including children and their parents, university students, refugees, and youth at risk, people with disabilities and elderly citizens. Besides building little ceramic objects, people were asked for comments, ideas, memories, plans, jokes and songs about urban living.
As people change the state of the city by placing and moving clay buildings and trees, the sound of the city changes. It is up to you to save the world, nah just kidding, but you can edit it by moving objects such as buildings around or off the board so have loads of fun.
Date:
20 July – 26 August
Time:
Wednesday – Friday 11am–5pm
Saturday 12pm – 5pm
Cost:
Free
Email:
mail@somethingtogether.com
Website:
pinupprojectspace.com
Location:
Pin-up Architecture & Design Project Space,
The Compound Interest Centre for Applied Arts
15 – 25 Keele Street, Collingwood
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