Exhibiting Information - COURSE IS FULL!!
To communicate information in a spatial manner is an issue that all designers and artists are confronted with at some point in their practice. What is information and how does the understanding and experience of space interact with how this information is perceived by the viewer? How does the viewer participate in this exchange?
Projects and individual works are often created outside the space that they are ultimately presented in. New situations occur and with them other understandings when works are presented in a new spatial context. The amount of information communicated is increased in the dialogue between work and the space that surrounds it. In addition, there are inherent different types of information that have differing functions. For a designer, some information is direct and necessary, such as the need to communicate statistics to help explain an idea or a project. At the same time, there also exists the need to communicate something besides this type of data – something immediate and experiential. Both of these extremes require the participation of the space in order to communicate with the viewer. Often this two-sidedness is perceived as a conflict for the designer. It is as if both cannot work together. This can result in a compromise in which one or the other side is chosen.
This workshop is intended to examine these issues in a three-dimensional study. The goal is understand more thoroughly how these issues influence our work and to investigate different strategies for how we can communicate using space as our medium.
The course will be arranged in the form of a four or five day workshop with an invited specialist in the field. Three additional guest lecturers, which could include an artist, graphic designer, or perhaps a choreographer will also participate. Each participant/ group will propose a theme or issue that they would like to investigate within the framework of the workshop. The workshop will be divided into two steps – a three-dimensional 1:1 scale experiment and an entire spatial proposal made in model form. An introduction to the course will be held March 8 at 1 pm. The first week is independent work as preparatory studies. The second week is held at KKH (Mellanrummet) 19-23 mars. The workshop will conclude with a one-day long critique and discussion.
Participating teachers will also participate through lectures, practical help, dialogues with students and the final critique and discussion.