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Annotated Environments & Anthropocentric Ecologies Activate Performing Arts in form and function such as public/private spaces,
The project with the AUB staff and students is an
‘AUB Human presents: Future Forest’, will be
Students had the opportunity to present work
minds and tackle the big questions of future design
Architecture and Design and co-curated with Senior
pavilions, plays spaces, intimate or social settings.
to Activate’s Kate Wood, Executive and Artisitc Director and Dom Kippin, Producer, for feedback. Kate told us more about the festival themes and the relationship with AUB Human: ‘Our festival this
opportunity to work with some of the brightest for universal good.
It is clear AUB shares our
passion for anything being possible and everyone being invited.’
The work will be showcased in a container
year has themes of sustainability, land use and
exhibition at Moors Valley Country Park as part of
the programme.
(guests and press 16 Sept). The exhibition titled,
lifecycles, human and environmental, at the heart of
Inside Out Dorset Festival on 17-19 September 2021
designed by Ed Ward, Lecturer in BA (Hons) Interior
Lecturers Mark Osborne and Alice Stevens from BA (Hons) Graphic Design. Tom Pritchard, Interior
Architecture and Design student will work with Ed in the design of the exhibition and students from Graphic Design, Ciara Seviour, Grace Reeves, Mia
Erwig and Toby Rivett, will be responsible for the identity of the exhibition.
Accessible path to Sumbiocentricity | Maria Elina
BA (Hons) Graphic Design and Interior Architecture
installation and how the artwork aims to create
propose explorative and imaginative structures.
with Activate Performing Arts. They believe that live
a deeper connection to the planet and sense of
embedded aesthetic and functional qualities,
and Design students came together to collaborate performance has the power to fire the imagination, uplift and connect us. Based in Dorset for nearly 30
a sense of the Overview Effect, thus provoking responsibility for the environment.
The Graphic Design students were required
years as a charitable company and an Arts Council
to design an ethical and annotated response to
they’ve brought live performance to unexpected
for specific visitors and users as they visit Luke
England Band 2 National Portfolio Organisation, places – town centres, village squares, beaches and hilltops – for everyone to enjoy.
AUB Human has collaborated with Activate in the
past, and were delighted to get involved in the Inside Out Dorset festival where Activate will present Luke Jerram’s Gaia, a significant artwork measuring seven metres in diameter, and featuring detailed
NASA photography of the Earth’s surface. The Gaia installation will be suspended among trees within
the Tree Top Trail at Moors Valley Country Park in September 2021 and has been funded by Forestry England, Dorset Council and Arts Council England.
The Level 5 students were tasked with reflecting
on the themes of the recent AUB Human symposium,
Tech for Social & Sustainable Good, which covered
the forest context that enhances the experience
Jerram’s ‘Gaia’ installation. As part of the project,
we were delighted to welcome the artist, Luke
Jerram, to speak about his motivation for the Gaia
and cater for user access both physically/on site and/or remote/distanced. The propositions ranged
and was also involved in creating his own personal
digital intervention that will feature as part of the Future Forest exhibition. Student work was broad
ranging and covered ideas from augmented
For more information about the Inside Out Dorset
based on the Wood Wide Web that explore how
org.uk/whats-on/inside-out-dorset/
reality eco-poetry trails, to interactive concepts
trees communicate, to more practical ideas that
Festival please visit: www.activateperformingarts.
address physical wayfinding and concepts that draw upon Greek Mythology and use storytelling and gamification to connect people to nature. Interior
Architecture
and
Design
students
developing an innovative temporary engagement
reach the widest possible audiences. Furthermore,
to be capable of withstanding climatic variabilities
Ashley Brown, who had spoken at the symposium
start of the collaboration. In addition, students were and the work they do in breaking down barriers to
of novel materiality and fabrication approaches,
workshops with the AUB coder-in-residence,
explored themes of ecology, sustainability, and
also excited to hear from Activate about the festival
encapsulating grounded theoretical underpinnings
students also had the opportunity to undertake
areas of sustainability, ethics, accessibility and inclusivity as a catalyst for their discussions and
Varying in scale and scope, the outcomes
design within the Anthropocene, defining and
Clockwise:
experience as a single or network of interventions
Making the invisible visible: Telling the unseen stories of the
Re-Connect to Reflect | Tom Pritchard
across the landscape of Moors Valley County Park. To
ground
the
work,
the
ideas
for
trees | Ciara Seviour, Grace Reeves, Mia Erwig & Toby Rivett
the
interventions took inspiration from the site;
natural systems (exploring scale/mediation) to
Symbiosis at Moors Valley | Maryam Al Muhanna, Abbie Coughlin, Sophie Larkins, Izzy Madavan & Julia Pala Under Pressure | Sandra Hylén
aub.ac.uk/aub-human
