Starting off Points

Here are some questions I have asked myself so as to get some sort of starting point going, I shall in turn, answer each one (hopefully!!)


What is public space?
What should public space act as?
Are there any issues about public space?
How do we approach these issues?
What are people's experiences of public space?

What are my own interests?
Consider if or how your work might intervene in public space to explore, enliven or enlighten people's experience of it?
Should we change the way we work to address a non specialist audience?

What issues does my previous work entail?
What is it that I am interested in at the moment?

Research sources (be familiar with the work of artists working in this area and their approaches)
How have other artists addressed these issues?

Things that you have done, things that you might do...
Proposals



Issues about public space...eg, no benches in shopping centres, or a decrease of them, nobody is allowed to loiter anymore. It takes away 'anti-social behaviour'. It also doesn't allow for people to stop and take a break.. we need to keep on shopping, there is no time to relax. There are also other issues about commuters, getting to certain places can become difficult, especially if it is not in plan with the public transport system. That would enevitably exclude those without their own form of vehicle. Another example is the exclusion of the homeless being allowed to stay in public places such as the dart station, they have recently renovated the benches (which the homeless used to ly on) and have encorporated fixtures which only allow individual people a space, aka, there are now dividers put onto the bench, now stopping the bench from becoming a place to sleep for the homeless.