Wearable Architecture was my first design brief it encouraged me to develop a deep knowledge and understanding of place and peoples reaction and connection to it. From the beginning I had to work beyond the confines/relative safety of the design studio, on Canterbury High Street.
Rather than emphasising the exceptional, the sensational or the spectacular, the concept of the “infra-ordinary” focused my attention on these everyday things we often take for granted the obvious, the mundane, the habitual, the parts of every day life that go unnoticed.
Working in small groups, we estarted the project by mapping the “infra-ordinary” themes and patterns encounters on our given site. Based on that investigations, we developed , assembled and deployed interventions along the High Street allowed me to test our design in a “ real life” situation.
In very straight forward terms this was a phenomenological study of the built environment, an exercise in “seeing” place, so that the “see-er” would become more sensitive to the events as they occur within the context of every day life and space.
