Playing around with titles, more appropriate for what we want to discuss, the kinds of angles we want to take.
Missing parts, broken items for workshops - could contact Ikea for broken items that cannot be sold anymore, other furniture stockists Skips etc, anywhere to find old pieces of furniture to disassemble and reassemble.
SOL LEWITT - ART WITH INSTRUCTIONS, DESIGN WITHOUT INSTRUCTIONS
How do you design art? Can you design art? Can something be art and design? Think about functionality of objects, does having a function mean it has been designed that way? Intentional function maybe, intentional design. Art - finding function where there wasn't one before - or embracing that it has no function and not everything in life has to.
POTENTIAL WORKSHOP - DESIGN DRAWINGS, instructions, see work of Sol Lewitt.
Creative play - adults engaging materials in a raw, organic and playful way - encouraging them to rethink what they know about materials and art and design and what constitutes them all.
Personified teapot? Plate? A creative writing piece that tells a story, tells THE story of an object rather than the public reading off a card.Performance piece possibly, actors.
Think about music: street rats? Piccadilly rats? Buskers, the music needs to make a comment, there can't just be music for the sake of having music, it has to be relevant - they would make a comment on class, value etc.
"Made by..." deals with ideas of authorship and ownership.
"BROKE" as a title? Something short and snappy, can have a tagline. Broke has a double meaning, can be applied to our ideas in all sorts of ways.
BROKE: SUSTAINABILITY IN A RECESSION
BROKE: DESIGN LOVES A RECESSION
BROKE: RECESSION AND POSSESSION .....more title ideas?
Need to deal with the health and safety of materials. Flat pack furniture, how big? Wardrobe? MAG health and safety policies, is this going to be doable? Suggested just doing it on a slightly smaller, more manageable scale, bedside cabinets, small chairs, stools etc.
Cardboard? What kinds of materials instead of wood? Can be masking-taped? Glued? Think about logistics.
HEALTH AND SAFETY, WHAT TO ASK MANCHESTER ART GALLERY:
I came across this after the meeting and it made me think of the issue of the kinds of materials we could provide people to build with other than furniture. Some of the group weren't happy with working with cardboard but thin wooden board like this with slats in could make some really interesting pieces and they're certainly easier to put together and handle, and are maybe more accessible for members of the public who aren't comfortable or familiar with working this way. The idea of things slotting together, there's already a template - vary the shapes, sizes - could this work?
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