NOTES:

 Public spaces

What should a designer consider when making something for a public space or gathering a community?

gathering= audience, group, multitude, meeting, wide group? Universal? Small group?

Community

What is meant by community?

Used to mean different things, engaging community, what does this mean 

It can mean anything

What people have in common, everyone who lives in my town is community of people, likes a particular band, its common heritage or interests, Carlo di salvo, not always about commonality

It depends on what the space is for the designer to consider…what you design depends on what its for, audience

Is it worth thinking about what a users or viewers needs are before making the design

You can design something so well but it didn’t need to do what the viewers need was for so isn’t really good

Does it work for the local context, eg charlies example of 2m signs and arrows, is it 2m itself? Does it do what it is designed to do for the community. User centred design

What is a designer (book recommended)

Norman potter

Sheila de bretteville, design as social activity 

What things look like instead what it does, social engagements, social catalysts provoking change

What do you think as a designer is most important for the public?

Considerations you should think about:

Safety

The royal association for the protection of accidents, used to make posters in factories and for the workplaces, well made, artistic, would it help you to protect your eyes

Handprinted posters- Abraham games, typography, extraordinary body of design work

Council signs of staying at home

Official health and safety laws poster- different approaches to making the poster, this is non artistic more corporate looking

chipp Kidd, judge this, Countdown on traffic lights, cuts out a time of running, makes you more at ease, how much time we have to cross the road

Recognition 

Biohazard symbol- meaningless but memorable

Clarity

Chipp Kidd, 

Durability

A good design that lasts a long time, dieter rams ‘as little design as possible’ comes directly from bauhaus, less is more, 

Simplicity 

Street signs 

www.publiclettering.org.uk/

Prof Phil Baines

Chris tinings

Clear signs, made of steel 25mm off the wall, extruded a little, 

Legibility

Public lettering, they need to compete, no uniformity across the country, boroughs different rules, Phil Baines www.publiclettering

1930s 1936 road signs stylised 

1960s redesigned signs, jock linear and Margaret Calvert = much better typographically better and legible, tells you what you need, user friendly

Way finding 

Barbican line - big art/theatre complex/housing 

People find it dreadful,  very radical social project, if it was really well designed physical structure doesn’t indicate where you need to go hence they have the yellow line, you follow the line from the station and it leads you to the barbican, a design making up for the problem in the architecture 

Trauma line, in hospitals, paramedic follows stripe line to follow to get to A&E

Tape lines now outside shops because of corona

Airport symbols- crucial! Universal 

Visibility

London is changing 2015

Huge billboards feeding information through live interviews, peoples experiences on moving billboard, moving with new info about peoples housing experiences

Getting a point across

Speakers corner

Anyone can publish, people can say what they want, free speech, publishing printed words, it can be performing active speeches, form of publication, publication ideas, speaking that disappears its still publishing, makes it public, publishing without producing something

Humour

Posting things on lampposts 

Urgency

Design for protests

David wojnarowicz- died of aids

Carrying a message with you

Workshops 

Palle neilsen, the model = an adventurer playground, he was danish, in a museum, children could do anything, platforms, could build - play well exhibition 

Consultation

Redeveloping parts of London in the 40s because of the war and quality of houses being unsafe, Lorraine lesson

Regeneration, barbican was a bombed out area, they create a utopian styled, optimistic 

Open ended

Simon and Tim blood

Representation

56 black men - cep has Williams 

Black man in a hoodie challenging stereotype who are successful 

How you represent a place 

Milton glaser i<3NY

Identity of places

Movement

Melbourne car park

Axel peemoeller

materials

Lines in supermarket

Oneway system, similar to the trauma lines

Temporality 

Cartilage levene for tate, some are fixed static pieces of work and not temporary 

What people actually want?

Does it work???

Your gif needs to reflect what you are arguing about your assignment, gif could be a work your looking at, something you found out, summarises the ideas in your essay, down to hundred words if key things your trying to say

How you going to translate your essay (written based) into visual, visually representing key points about your essay