Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Team Grass In Motion Final Draft Presentation (Tiffany, Rick, Taylor, Sae In)
Here's the link to the Google slide:
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FINAL Presentation #WishingLamp
Project Report “Wishing Lamp”
Curating Public Narrative
Project Report “Wishing Lamp”
By: Kevin Ko (Kwang Min Ko), Mackenzie Lestan, Reven, SeonAe Moon
Introduction
Our group seeks to install our “Wishing Lamp” structure in three chosen public locations, Washington Square Park, Bryant Park, and Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City. Our group consist of four Parsons students, one senior student majoring in Photograph, one senior student majoring in Integrated Design, and one senior and one junior Design Management students. We have worked in multiple phases to develop for our design for public art installation project. This report is final proposal before we install our art project in three public locations for a period of time in the future winter.
Objectives
The main objective of our project is to give people a comfort zone and to create a unified environment that neighbors and visitors from the entire world can think and express their feelings in public space. We have chosen three different park locations, which have different demographics resulting different and unique outcome for each locations. We will install three large lamp sculptures. The design of the lamp is a simple, large rectangle shape lamp has light wires around, similar to a Japanese traditional lamp. The color of the lamp will change in certain setup time, which can change the mood of the environment depending on the colors. Our group wants our installed art project to create a space within a space, for people to freely interact and express their thinking with our installed lamp structure. People can use wishing tag papers to jot down their wish that will be installed around our structure. We want to observe how each different park locations with variety of demographics have different voices and different expression.
Description of art locations
At the chosen three different locations, we want a wide range of diversity for the responses we receive from our wishing lamp installation. With three different locations, they consist of different demographics. The locations we chose for our instillation are Bryant Park, Washington Square Park, and Dumbo (park between the brooklyn bridge and manhattan bridge). Bryant Park’s demographic is business people and workers, Washington square park has a demographic of students and the demographic of Dumbo is populated by residents. With our project we also have a fixed demographic which is visitors, because with being in New York, tourists are a constant element everywhere in the city.
1. Washington Square Park
Location: Foot of Fifth Avenue, bordered by Waverly Place, University Place, MacDougal Street
Building Near by: Most of the buildings surrounding the park now belong to New York University, but many have at one time served as homes and studios for artists. Some of the buildings have been built by NYU while others have been converted from former uses into academic and residential buildings.
Neighborhood: It is a landmark in Manhattan in the neighborhood of Greenwich Village as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. During the daytime, the park is always packed of people who want to enjoy the sunshine, take a walk with a dog and hang out. There are many restaurants surrounding by the park, so many people walk through or visit the park in evening, too.
2. Brooklyn Bridge Park (Dumbo)
Location: Furman St, Water St, John St, Old Fulton St, Main St. It’s end of the Brooklyn Bridge
Building Near by: There is Brooklyn Bridge and Wall Street office buildings nearby and residential building.
Neighborhood: The park offers breathtaking view of Lower Manhattan and numerous recreational facilities such as playgrounds, basketball courts, and sports fields. The park attracts tons of Tourists and New Yorkers everyday because it is under Brooklyn Bridge and it offers great view of Manhattan. Neighbors come to the park to break away from their busy lives.
3. Bryant Park
Location: Fifth and Sixth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets
Building Near by: Salmon Tower, W.R. Grace Building, Bryant Park Building, 1095 Avenue of the Americas, Bryant Park Studio Building, American Radiator Building, Knox Hat Building, The New York Public Library
Neighborhood: Bryant Park is filled with office workers on sunny weekdays, city visitors on the weekends, and revelers during the holidays. One of the biggest features of the park is a large lawn that is turned into skate rink during the winter. There are large trees surrounding the park blocking the view of congested New York City view, which creates comfortable public environment for exhausted workers and pedestrian.
Collaboration with Artists
Lights are not only the source to see something clear in the dark. We feel and absorb lights through our eyes and skin when we are exposed to it. The light has power to fill space and fill our emotions. Since we create the wishing lamp to observe the expression of feelings and thoughts in public space, we can collaborate with similar artworks, which have used light in art forms such as James Turrell and The Museum of Feeling Glade®.
James Turrell is a well-known visionary artist, who uses lights to change perception of medium and objective. He uses lights to create a space, which is affected perception of what audiences see and what they feel. He shapes lights and creates new spaces that people can have different attention of the space in a simple space. We can install his artworks at our three different locations to collect ideas and feelings of audiences. The audiences, who live in the areas where they are used to see in their daily life, can have different eyes in familiar landscape. They will have new feelings about ordinary space, and it will result different and unique outcomes. They will express and share their new experience of the spaces on our wishing lamp, and the messages will be inspired people who want to escape their routine.
The Museum of Feelings by Glade® is offering experience to change their feelings as entering different rooms in the exhibition. The exterior of each room has different colors and scents to change moods of audiences; exhilarated, carefree, joyful, invigorated, worried, calm and optimistic. We can create two different wishing lamps with basic color lightings at the entrance and the exit. Audiences can write down how their feelings and thoughts are changed before and after they visit the exhibition. It would be shared and remembered with other audiences, and we can observe different voices and expression in various demographics.
After two exhibitions are finished, we will create a book that combines the tags from the wishing lamp, so people can share ideas of the experience. The book will also help the visitors to remember what they feel and what they have thought.
Collaborating with all different artworks will be extended main objective of our project, which is to offer a comfort zone and to create shared environment with neighbors and visitors that can express their feelings in public space.
Financial Summary
Part A. This is the list and price of our materials for creating lamp.
Materials
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Price
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Explanation
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¾” x 8 BIRCH PLYWOOD CANADIAN (34BIR)
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$20.00 x 6
= $120.00
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Need to cut in piece, this part is going to be height of the lamp, so pieces of 67 inch(need to stick two piece together after cutting. 12 pieces for 3 lamp, one large piece give 4 part which is two large side piece.
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½ 4 X 8 CANADIAN BIRCH PLYWOOD (12BIR)
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$25.00 x 6
= $150.00
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Going to be the base part 27.5 x 6 x 4 (three each bases top and bottom for three lamp)
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lederTEK Decorative Solar Christmas Lights White 200 Led 72ft 8 Modes Fairy String Light
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$22.00 x 9
= $198.00
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The solar solar light that is waterproof we need 3 for each lamp to cover up the 27.5 x 67 x 27.5 inch lamp
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Blick Soft White Hang Tags x 300
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$4.00 x 10
= $40.00
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30 packs for each container and we are planning to have 100 tags for each lamp
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Total
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= $508.00
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Approximate total price for creating 3 lamps
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- We have no labor cost because we will be making and cutting the pieces from school, the drilling machines and nails will be provided by school.
- We will be getting our wood materials in Prince Lumber for our lamp, we are going to use plywood for our project. In our financial report, it is the serial code of the plywood we are going to purchase for the lamp. The cost and amount of plywood is going to be the price of three lamps. We choose plywood is one of the best durable material for creating sturdy structure and is very cheap. However it is week at water, so we have to careful of water overtime, however since our project is going to be approximately displayed for 2 weeks, the water won’t be problems.
404 W 15th St, New York, NY, 100, (212) 777-1150
- The light source is purchased from Lighting & Beyond, and the lights will run in solar energy and it will be weather proof so we don’t most likely have to worry about light shutting off because of dead battery. The light will not be an issue unless the light we purchase itself has technical difficulty.
35 W 14th St, New York, NY, 10011, (212) 929-2738
- The wish tags are from staples, one pack contains 30 tags so we need approximately 10 packs to have 300 tags, 100 tags for each locations.
Part B. The cost of installing our lamp in different parks
To install our wishing lamp at public parks in New York City, we need to contact to the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to reserve a specific areas in a park. There is processing fee, which is $ 25 for each event, and it cannot be waived or returnable. In addition, it will take 21-30 days to process permit requests. To install our wishing lamps, there are extra different costs in each park. To preserve areas in advance, we can apply special events permit online (https://nyceventpermits.nyc.gov/Parks) or in person at one of borough permit offices, which are located in Central Park for Manhattan, Prospect Park for Brooklyn. We cannot reserve any parks in major holiday weekends; during that time, parks will be remained into first-come, first-served system for public use.
Washington Square Park
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Brooklyn Bridge Park
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Bryant Park
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Under 25% of Designated Area
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$ 1800
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$ 600
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$ 600
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Removal
With the name tags that are being collected on the three lamps, as a group we will be putting the tags into a book. With the lamp structure, we will be responsible for hiring professional demolition company to remove the three lamps in the three different locations. The lamp structure can be trashed after, but we will be collecting the wishing tags written by people, for our final process. However we do not have use of lamp anymore, therefore we decided to trash it but since we don’t damage the park during the cleaning process. We decided to hire professional demolition company. The price of lamp deconstruction will be $80 for each three lamps, making total of $240 to demolish all the lamps.
Nuza Home Improvement Corp, booking available in Home Advisor.
Conclusions
The total pricing of our project, $508 (Materials) + $3000 (Location fee) + $240 (Demolish fee). $3748 is the approximately pricing of our total project cost.
Our main goal of the project is to create a unique comfort zone to the people visiting the park, with using our light structure, “Wishing lamp”. People can freely express their emotions or even write about their future plans or dream on our structure using the wishing tags provided by us. At the end of the project, we wanted to create art piece to memorate our project. We decided to create a book using wishing tags we collected from each of our lamp. We will examine and sort our wishing tags in certain themes that we think it's suitable for the wishing tags. For example, in theme, “Dream” section of the book will include people’s wishing tag who wrote about what they want in future or literally their dream last night. We want to share people’s voice others, who have interacted with our project, which this possibly could spread the words for our future creating bigger, “Wishing Lamp”, project after our first launch.
final paper
Dominique DeVito
Dominique DeVito
800 words essay to introduce project/exhibition
“Memories in Language” Wall
The concept of my project is quite a simple one. It stems from the location that my exhibition will take place. In Bensonhurst Brooklyn there are multiple communities of people living in close proximity. These people come from all different backgrounds and cultures and yet they barely know anything about each other. People are seen on trains, walking on sidewalks, at bus stops, the same people every day that pass by each other, but no one bothers to talk to one another at all since they are too involved in their smartphones and other devices. These devices promote social isolation further then cultural differences ever would. Despite being constantly connected, in reality we are all disconnected. I see this as a real problem. Everyone, but especially immigrants, have amazing stories about their past lives to tell and I think that is much more of a worthy conversation then anything posted on Facebook or Instagram. The true premise behind this concept was to find a way to get people to share their stories in one of the most diverse neighborhoods, and to come together as a community through language that is not seen behind a screen.
This project greatly relates to live in an urban environment. As previously stated, in large cities we can pass by the same people every day and yet never speak to them. In smaller, more community driven towns, this is a bit different. People know and can rely upon their neighbors. Growing up I always heard my relatives say that Brooklyn was once like that, and now it’s not. I have a suspicion that technology has been the deciding factor in this, and that our communication now takes place on devices rather than in face to face conversations. I chose to deal with language since that is the real force of communication between all people. Even if people can not understand another language they can still hear and see the words being written and spoken. I also chose to overlay my project on top of preciously written graffiti because I feel that the past cannot be erased (what this project focuses on is the past specifically). People get to share their memories, feelings, and emotions on top of what was already there.
The beautiful thing about involvement with artists in this project is that the creators and artists will be the people of Bensonhurst. They will be selected of their own accord. There will be no specific people promoting this project at all times, but rather, people will come upon this question that has been placed on something the people of the neighborhood find to generally be an ugly space and they will decide to answer this question and turn it into something beautiful. The willingness of the community will be the deciding factor in how many artists or participants are involved with this project on a whole.
The site will be the garages in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn on 67th street near 16th avenue. This site is notorious in Bensonhurst for being “ugly” and an eye sore. It is hated by the community because of the offensive things that are graffitied on some of the garages, and the general unwanted tags that cover the spaces that people rent. Weather conditions may deter people from being on the street but it will have no real effect on the actual end result of the mural that will come out of this project.
This project has no real effect on governmental structures. It does not pertain to publicly owned property. These garages are rented by private renters and all of them are owned by two people. However, they are still public spaces since the public will be seeing them every day when they pass by this bustling street and intersection. Regulations will pertain mostly in connection with the owner and renters who will give permission to write on their property.
As a developmental plan I do not believe the timeline would be an extremely long period. Realistically I would first obtain permission form the renters and owner of these garages. I would also get in contact with the city and community council members to see if I would need any permits to proceed with this project besides the owners permission. Once this is obtained I would like to go out and purchase the necessary materials and then put up the question. Hopefully within a week people would be inspired to answer the question and share their memories from their home countries.
Truly, the only costs of my exhibition will be obtaining the permits if they are needed and the materials needed for people to write their memories. That is one of the most beautiful things about my project, it is something that requires little money and yet it will bring together an entire community of people.
Final Paper - Confronting Social Anxiety with Lexy Ho Tai
Erin
Pienta
Public
Narrative
Our overall group mission was to
addresses the theme of fear people interacting and social anxiety. We wanted to
use performance to confront these issues.
Fellow senior at Parsons, Lexy
Ho-Tai, is doing her senior BFA fashion design thesis on the way people
interact through the garments they put on their bodies. In addition to the
final product having a message about communication, she wants the process of
creating the fabric for the project to have a community aspect. In working with
Lexy, we came up with the idea for her to create her fabrics in a series of
public parks. She wants to use public to create her fabric through weaving,
dyeing, and other small experiments all done via public interaction. I want to
help her execute this by helping her set up a day, time, and place in these
parks where she can not only interact with the community, but the community can
interact with each other. So many people now are terrified to step away from
their smartphones and simply talk to one another. No one is willing to have a
conversation without the use of emojiis. As Lexy says to me all the time “what
ever happened to a real genuine smile?”
By forcing people to actually use
their hands, people will have to put away their personal technology and instead
actively engage in what they are doing. Once the phones are down, it is her
hope that people will begin to interact with one another, focus on what their
doing, have fun, and actually talk to one another.
Lexy was selected for this because
she is so thoroughly engrossed in the concept. Since she began studying fashion
at Parsons, Lexy has long rejected social norms for fashion and began pushing
the boundaries for gender, social issues, and sustainability.
The list of parks that Lexy is going
to participate in is Washington Square Park in the Village, Tompkins Square
Park in Alphabet City, the Imagination Playground at South Street Seaport, the
Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, and the De Witt Clinton Park in Hells Kitchen. I
personally chose these parks for Lexy to help give her a diverse view of
Manhattan. I wanted her to potentially interact with a wide range of people,
while still making sure she would be in parks where people would actually be.
For each of these parks, because they are controlled by the Parks Department,
Lexy simply needs to apply for a special events permit for each of the events.
Since these are small events, there should be no additional fee from the city
beyond the $25 for each park.
As far as timeline goes, each of
these events will take place as follows, beginning in Washington Square Park on
Saturday January 15. For the next four weeks, on Saturday, Lexy will move from
park to park, interacting with different people and continue to make her
textiles for her collection.
In order to gain attention for the
upcoming event, we are going to place event fliers around Washington Square
Park first, and use Lexy’s existing fan base to gain attention on Facebook and
instagram. It is our hope that the Washington Square event will help draw
others to the other parks. We are also going to create Facebook events to help
remind people about the event. In this day and age of technology, a facebook
notification is often the fastest way to reach people.
In order to incorporate social media, yet
not have it be a disruptive action during the actual process, a photographer
will be involved but unseen during the process. The photographer will capture
moments of the making-taking place, and later post them on the tumblr of the
ongoing event. This will help generate an interest for the people involved but
also garner following post haste. When people see the photos of the event after
the fact, they will be more likely to come to the event and join in on the fun.
The initial cost of the event,
before beginning, is $125. This is a nonrefundable cost from the Parks
Department. However, beyond this, and the beauty of Lexy’s work, is that there
should be very minimal costs beyond this. The base of Lexy’s work is on
sustainability. Instead of using organic material like most modern day
designers do, she takes it full throttle and uses 100% recycled or found
materials. During the summer, before I began collaborating with her, she did a
mass collection amongst friends and dumpster diving digs for her base fabrics
and materials. Beyond there, costs are minimal. For a an extremely safe
estimate, I would add in $100 for paint, $200 for sculpey (a molding material
Lexy is particularly fond of), and $100 for jello (Lexy is particularly found
of dyeing materials using Jello, which should be particularly interesting for
the additional smell factor this contributes to the scene).
This social experiment will help
ultimately add another layer of meaning into Lexy’s already complex and ever morphing
thesis.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Food For Thought --In class exercise.-Individually-Kun Yang
2. Individually, create a bullet pointed list of three to five aspects of the practice you plan to pursue that might influence or provide a means to addressing those challenges.
Kun Yang
Free lance fashion designer
Need a lot of basic and skills and create inspirations
Need to design different styles clothes, and not limited to a single style, therefore need a lot of knowledge to enrich inspirationInterpersonal communication
According to the basic requirements of customers To establish a large design inspiration for it. Understand customer in one hundred percent
Photography and painting
Need to accurately show the aesthetic feeling of physical clothes And all the design details have showed in sketches
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