JUTEOPOLIS: FINAL PRESENTATION DAY.

JUTEOPOLIS.

BRIEF: To develop a design response within the context of an exciting contemporary exhibition to explore the theme of JUTEOPOLIS.

 The following six sheets illustrate the research, development and final ideas that took place within our group project.  In our 5 week project we worked with two real clients, Brian Kelly who is the education and community outreach officer at Verdant Works and Louise Richie, who is an artist and a member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA), who undertook an expressive art project on the theme of JUTEOPOLIS.

As a group we had the freedom to decide what form the exhibition would take.  We felt that the exhibition should be a place of learning, consequently, we decided to base our exhibition on former jute worker Lily Thompson.

After constructing our emotive object, we realised that the cultivation of jute resembles a journey - just like the life of Lily Thompson in the jute mills.  Therefore we thought we would investigate and display 6 main stages of Lily's life within the exhibition space.

Within the space, there are 6 curved stations.  Each station displays personal information about Lily, as well as a section of Dundee's history at that particular time.  Both elements of information combine to produce 6 individual learning spaces.

As the audience who enter the exhibition space determine the lighting within the space using the 'sensacell lighting tiles' on the ground, this gives them a sense of 'power' within the space and they too can make their own Journey throughout the exhibition.

There is a focus on lighting within the space.  The entire room is blackened out, however there is light emerging from 3 sources:

one - lighting will emerge from underneath the water, illustrating Dundee's history

two - lighting within the centre space will shine through the jute

three- there is light created by the audience as they make their personal journey throughout the exhibition on the 'sensacell tiles'.  They have been given the power to control the intensity of light in the space at any given time.