Re�ection on Informal Urban Practices meg mcmillan

What are ‘informal urban practices’?

Exploration : Intervention : Occupation

Market Trading: Exchanging Interests + Ideas

gra�ttiguerrilla gardening

random acts of kindness/destruction

reclaiming the streets

testing reactions

games

street artist practices

pranks

skateboardingmodifying/customizing

community interactions

social entrepreneurship

street vendingloitering

vagrancy

social networking

buskingprotests + rallies �ash mobs

begging

cult rituals

social revolutionhomelessness

appropriation

exploration of informal urban practices in boxhill

how do people respond to a lost phone invading personal space

reactions to red string

urban fashion commentaryin north melbourne

Habitallery:structure as urban creature meg mcmillan

Interests

Methods and Approaches

key elements:

-create a sustainable structure-use of cardboard and reused materials-the structure itself will become the artwork-invitations will be used to �nish structure-involves community in the making-self-constructing-time lapse photography-show how structure evolves throughout project-create a ‘growing urban creature’-interactive/collaborative-transient experience/constantly moving-areas of concentration

designonthemove.com

core.form-ula.com dtti.wordpress.com

boingboing.net soulquest-lifestyle.com

images.publicradio.org

development:

-work as individual + with others in group to develop overall design and shape of structure-decide on materials; �nd sustainable options-possibility to test various smaller scale structures along the way at various urban locations-tests would look at how others interact with structure, how it changes, and how various locations change reactions-possibility to use digital fabrication and other technologies-practices with time lapse photography and how it can impact overall project-design how structure will move according to the number of visitors and items that are added to structure; how it will be self-constructing

investigate:

-the project will aim to investigate how a skeletal structure can tranform based on interactions and additions from a wider audience-it will investigate various methods of getting involvement from the community-how does time lapse photography impact a project of this scale-it will investigate the idea of how a structure can be self-constructing-the project will create various scaled spaces that look at how di�erent individual interact and react with in it

outcomes:

-full scale structure that acts as artwork and as a means of providing various spaces-invitations to event that are used to create the ‘urban creature’-time lapse photography of event that shows how the structure grows, changes, and moves-a mapping of how the structure moves-how much the structure moves and the areas of concentration will act as a gauge of the number of visitors and interactions-movement will be a measurement of success