Space And Materiality

6th August 2018

WEEK2

So, today were supposed to bring our assignments given in the previous lecture.

I basically collected all the materials from my home itself. Here is what all I collected;

I brought these materials that I collected at my home. I got straw, copper wire, wool, bobby pin, toothpick, rubber band that is Linear. Mount board, card board, cotton cloth, balloon that is Planar and beads that is Granular.

Some of my classmates got materials never seen before. Everyone of us had done the assignment. Sir asked us to present ourselves with materials and which material came under which of the category ie; Linear, Planar, Granular.

We were supposed to bring MDF sheet today. We were finally going to work with the machines. So, after the presentations wee over we sir told us to design coasters. Sir explained us how to start to think about how to design a coaster.

Sir asked us to create as many designs as possible and then to work on any two of the designs we thought that were the best. Then we all started to think how we wanted our coasters to be. I was confused and made many designs but was still not sure which ones to work with.

After the designs were made it was time for us to explore a the world of machines to turn our designs into reality. As soon as we reached the workshop/lab we saw that the machines were already occupied by the other class and we had to wait for our turn to use them. Till then one of the sirs in the lab cut our big MDF sheets into smaller sections and each of us took two of them. Then we started smoothening the sides of the blocks       as it was the only machine where a lot of us could work at the same time. And then we  made the designs with pencil on the block. I had to wait a lot to use any machine. Everyone was preoccupied with all the machines but I finally got a drilling machine and drilled some holes into my coaster(I still wasn’t sure of how I wanted my coaster to look like).

Then it was time to close the lab so we all had to leave the lab. I wasn’t finished with any of the coasters and wanted to make sure that they were completed by next week as we had to submit these coasters in the next lecture.