Wall I:
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observation on (2x)
4 dimensions: intellect -- emotion -- physicality -- energy
Wall II:
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How do you envision yourself outside of the school and in the city?
How can artist contribute to creating harmony and well being in society?
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Directional legend (NSEW)
Some Streets and less street names—gray(s)
Dots with numbers
Add 4 dots for SAIC buildings with SAIC 4 dots which are a, b, c, d
Energy:
Stored energy
Lethargic, boring
False security
Hidden, not healthy (Columbus)
Repressed, uninviting, steady, non-organic
36 Wabash entrance: flow, city meets school
36 Wabash lounge: static TV: window as TV screen
Controlled, depleting, weight, non-nurturing, distrust
between buildings and within
Lonely
Bureaucratic, slow, complicated
Columbus was very bright
Strong boundaries
Emotional/Relationship:
No connection, no playfulness, no joy, no comfort
False security, cold
Strict, terse, militant, superficial, unforgiving
Warmer/friendlier niches around food center
High expectations
36 South Wabash entrance: connected society student and
pedestrians
36 South Wabash: conflict, realization, space, TV, view
Unchangeable, non-communicative
Elevator culture
Unwelcoming
Hidden from society, non-welcoming, doesn’t encourage group
conversation but individual solitude
Lonely individualistic
Competition
Intellect Information:
Very expensive tuition
Looks like office buildings
Lack of place to get information
Too many rules
Guards to keep safe
No community
36 Wabash best personal interactions in a space between
city/school
36 Wabash lounge, large windows can function as a message
board to city
Disorganized false or unclear information
Coming from different hands, vague, unclear, old
Bauhaus, urban industrial no continuity, marginalization
Physical
No money
Columbus- concrete ram, heavy burden for art
Impossible to act
No freedom to express in space
None of the buildings looked the same,
Office building like
Columbus is dirty like a prison
Sterile
Square rectangular entrances, concrete
Cold, dead soil, ornamental nature, exposed lockers and
locks, electrical systems and air conditioning, glass
plastic, aluminum grey, white walls dusty A
Artificial light
Grey, sterile, form vs. function, no nature but all metal
fluorescent lighting hidden within city, concrete flour,
from sidewalk over Columbus acknowledgements of buildings
36 Wabash entrance, hallways, beams for hanging material
electronics, good walls for paining, cold, ma need some
space heather
36 Wabash lounge, big window furniture, and computers
organized poorly
Michigan 12th floor carpet and sofa big window
Artists no visible body and work
Feelings
Dark with grey images
Lack in nature
No character
No people
Down with energy
Concrete brick
Tunnels and yellow
Corporate homogeny
Labyrinth/maze
Super max security prison
Lonely human being
Censorship
OBSERVATION: Positive of SAIC Buildings
ENERGY
INTELLECTUAL
Stimulating
Productive
Good qualified
artists/faculty
Museum/library
Great visiting artist
program
Opportunities
Cultural access
Challenging
Faculty working artists
Counseling
Wringing center co-op
Ox-bow/off campus programs
Opportunities
Cultural access
Emotional
enrichment/attachment
Fiber: supportive
Friendships
Counseling
EMOTIONAL
Generous Faculty and
students and workers
Opportunities
Cultural access
Emotional
enrichment/attachment
Fiber: supportive
Friendships
Counseling
PHYSICAL
Locations- city and nature
Good facilities, audiovisual
resources
Many classes
Cultural production
Studios, good
Public transpiration:
functional
U-pass
Multi-cultural?
Billboards
Seeing comrades posters for
info
Exhibition spaces
Internets radio
Website