Week 7

The hand over. On 29th August 2014 we pinned up our work and had an informal presentation with the community.

Week 6

This week we found ourselves designing a community action plan. We discussed existing elements on site and work with it. We then decided our objective from there. we also broke up the plan into realistic and achievable plans. As well as remembering that these plans are only possibilities for the area and also these possibilities have the potential to change.

Week 5 Site Visits

This week we experimented on site. We conducted our own work shop on site which allowed residents from Denver to participate in the design process and have a say on what they thought was appropriate and not appropriate. our group was manned in two places and a table was set up to conduct the work shop with those who were walking by.

Week 5 Task 1 For AT Studio

For this week we had to again make a Pucha Kucha which forced each group to break up into 2 groups. One group which talked about their experiences in the in Johannesburg and the second group which talked about their experience in UIA Durban 2014.

Week 4 Johannesburg AT Studio

This week all the groups collaborated to work on a installation that was to be erected on site (Denver Beer Hall). The installation was to paint the whole map of the Denver informal settlement on a corrugated wall. We had two work shops one at UJ and the other one at Denver this was to join all the maps from different groups to make up one big map. The map stencil was produced on Thursday it was then moved to site and spray painted on Friday.

Week 4 UIA Durban 2014

This week we were privileged to go for UIA which was held in Durban. 4 members from our group had left for uia and 5 members were left in Johannesburg to do further work on the AT Studio Project. At UIA a workshop was conducted by Eric Wright which looked at long term, medium term and short term goals and the each of these goals should entail. This work shop conducted an experimental twitter feed which allowed those who were not present to give their input. the work shop was successful in terms of the feed back we received from those who were not exposed to the Denver project.

Week 3 Task 2 for AT Studio

Our second task for the week was to produce a pamphlet that we would use for UIA Durban 2014. this pamphlet was open ended, meaning that any information, any format, any colors were allowed on the pamphlet which allowed for a vast creativity.

The concept of the pamphlet was derived from the transparency of the site, where were always uncovering may layers to the site.

Week 3 Task 1 for AT Studio

For this week we had two tasks, the first was to produce a pucha kucha that will be show cased at the beer hall on site. We produced alot of information in the a very minimalist manner. This allowed for the information to be read by almost any one and allowed for sketches to be done on the map.