Field Art meeting - 14/10/08

Tuesday morning has become the regular Liveproject/Field Art group meeting time in which we discuss the development of the project.

Today, the student team outlined to the Field Art team the product of the monday evening meeting - in particular, the identification of the 3 directions of the project; namely raising the awareness of the building and T.P.T., conducting events and developing proposals as part of feasability study. Furthermore, it was suggested that Field Art's main role should be on developing/advertising the events as they have the pedigree in this field - not that there won't be any crossover (which we encourage).

The outlining of these 3 aspects of the live project development were followed by an individual presentation of ideas - not only for the future development of the building, but also for events and ways of raising awareness.

















[I should mention that the previous tuesday (07/10/08), a time table had been established which set out the dates for consultations and future events. These include visits to 2 schools next week (thurs + fri - culminating in an event) and a trip to Meadowhall in order to raise awarness of the proximity of the T.P.T. and cycling as an alternative transport method. Therefore some of the sketch ideas that were presented address these specific obligations.]

One theme of the meeting was the immediate addressing of the building, and its context. The idea behind this was to create a visual change in the environment which would hopefully catalyse discussion between passers-by and reflect the fact something is indeed being done about the building itself. It was agreed that this was a quick and easy way to make an impact, and test out the treatment of the site, post clean-up.

We await input from Fran (Sheffield City Council) with regards to the extent and practicalities of this clean-up, but it has been agreed between ourselves and Jack at the Landscape Trust that an external tidy up of the site will be conducted - site 'tidy up' thurs 16th, 1pm+ confirmed!!

Field Art have taken our ideas on board and seen some of our event proposals. They are now going to go away and liase with schools and community groups, promoting the upcoming events/consultations. Meanwhile the liveproject team will focus on creating the objects for these.

Once our liveproject logo has been finalised, Field Art will integrate it into their designs for postcards/leaflets for distribution, allowing us to concentrate on site maintenance and the event installations themselves.

Now we just need some t-shirts....................
KW.