Week Six Brief

Here is the Narrative Brief.

Please get your stories figured out and selected for next week's lesson.

They don't need to be over complex and don't need to be overly detailed, the clarity of the relationship between your narrative threads is the important thing.

We mentioned the Wellcome Collection, go and visit.

I believe I also mentioned Philip Hughes' - Exhibition Design. It's a good how-to guide for creating exhibitions.

Layouts

As discussed during Monday the 14th's class, the diagrams to the left are commonly used narrative lead layouts. They are found in exhibition and retail environments, both temporary and permanent.

Over the weekend please photograph examples of these layouts being used, and come on Monday 21st prepared to describe them in terms of the stories they are structuring.

Tim Gardom Associates

This company use a narrative based system of content development for interpretive environments

Tim Gardom Associates

Week Five Presentation

Topics Covered:
Narrative definition
Narrative presence in design
Introduction to developing design narratives
Structuring narratives in spaces

This doesn't add anything to the notes but there are some nice examples of spaces structured according to narratives towards the end.

Narrative Presentation

The Monomyth

For those particularly interested in narrative there is a theory proposed by Joseph Campbell which suggests that all stories follow essentially the same structure.
This further suggests that there is one single structure that we understand and recognize - making us very adept at filling it the gaps if a narrative is presented incomplete.

The diagram to the left spells out the stages that make up this narrative form, and should - confusingly - be read anticlockwise.

Try applying it to whatever TV drama or film you happen to be watching.

A simple summary is here: Monomyth Simple Summary

and a detailed one is here: Monomyth Extended Summary

Joseph Campbell's book is here:

Week Five Notes

Topics Covered:
Narrative definition
Narrative presence in design
Introduction to developing design narratives
Structuring narratives in spaces

The notes are here: Narrative Notes

Dans Le Noir

An experience similar to one proposed in class

Dans Le Noir

Call For Contributors

All,
It would be really good to get some of the completed presentations up on here.
I can set it up so that you can post them yourselves if you become followers of the blog.
Otherwise email them to me and I'll post them for you.

Thanks

Site Specific Art

If you are interested in the arts end of site specific work these are two very good books on the subject

Interaction Design

Further to our discussions on interactivity and interactive systems you may like to take a look at this research project and publication.

Week Four Brief

Brief Set:
Not a Sticker Campaign - Introducing Groups and Communities

Brief is here

Feel free to contact myself or Ben via email during the coming week if you need to.

Week Four Presentation

Topics Covered:
Site Specific Art and Design

The slide show is here