Provoke Change Project

First Idea

Provoke Change Lecture 'Small Town' Thinking about how we could provoke a change in our own city.

Initial Ideas - Interactive shopping assistant. Cut down the amount of time you need to walk around looking for the product you need. Go straight to the 'Eshopper' and use a touch screen to locate the item and the price so you can go straight to the place to buy that product, no danger of not being in stock or not being able to find it.

Second Idea Looking at the city visually. We talked about in our lecture 'Small Town' about how Bath was stuck in its way and has little modern architecture and infact has little scope to change. All the new developements will be built in the same style of Georgian architecture. My idea is to reference the 'Mirror' in Bordeaux France and to bring this idea into Bath.

One of the most iconic buildings in Bath is the Royal Crescent. This particular area is a hot spot for tourists and I would like to enhance the appeal of the crescent by creating a mirror illusion infront of the crescent.

This particularly fits here as in the design of the crescent has a 'Ha Ha' which is a wall infront of the buildings which allows for a drop in levels which seperated an area of land where they could keep animals but as it was on a different level the animals couldn't escape and it kept them seperate. When looking out from the crescent this level change created an optical illusion that the land was infact on the same level. So I thought you could use this historical reference and still have this illusion of a level area of water which would reflect the crescent.

So instead of trying to change the architecture we are celebrating it by duplicating it.I thought we could expand this in graphical terms by creating some visuals of what it would look like using 3d graphics.

After talking through my ideas within our group Martin had some really good ideas which would enhance my idea of a water scupture in front of the Royal Crescent. We decided to team up and put our ideas together.

Martin had the idea of using roman gods to represent different aspects of the cityApollo - god of prophecy, music and healing andMinerva - god of wisdomAthena - the goddess of wisdom. She also was the goddess of handicrafts and strategy. Juturna - the goodess of springs We thought we could represent these gods in an abstract way. We are still thinking about this. We also are considering other areas in the city that could benefit from a 'tourist attraction'. We will be looking at sites where the developement of the water front is happeneing and other sites around bath.We are also going to be looking at other ways of using water to create a sculpture eg. fountains, water jets.We want to present our ideas using some visualisations using 3d max .