i've been dying to upload photos for so long now. thankfully i've eventually found my camera lead thus enabling to do so... hurrah!
so back in the summer, amongst all the drama, i managed to get away for a few days to cornwall and to wales. one of the highlights of my cornwall trip was the magnificent eden project. the biomes were fabulous of course but the thing that got me most excited was the eden project's education centre, also known as the core.
its a hub of all things sustainable and eco-friendliness, lots of things to play with and read about. the best thing being the massive wall of fridges complete with fridge magnets.
everyone was clambering to get to the wall of fridges to arrange a message of their choice whether is be a "so-so was ere" message or something jokingly derogatory about their friends. it was a fascinating sight to behold and really got me thinking about my MA project.
the action of arranging a message using the fridge magnets in the way the eden crowd were desperate to do is very much comparable to the way that people constantly update their facebook/twitter/myspace etc statuses. you can't obviously write a long message in either case but you can portray enough to get attention. but, whilst using fridge magnets to display a message on a fridge wall is much more of a physical act (in that it uses more of your body than just your fingers), it's still very much ephemeral in the same way that updating your status is. someone can come along and start rearranging your carefully placed letters as soon as you walk away, it's never permanent.
and so my thought process tumbles along (also very good example of design being used for something it wasn't originally intended to do!)... could i possibly use something inspired by this in my final project solution? hmm...
also got a quite nice pic of the centre piece of the core called the seed. it's one of the largest sculptures ever to be made from one single piece of rock.
very imposing and impressive up close.
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