fencePOCKET
by surreaLies
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Title
fencePOCKET
Headline
fencePOCKET is designed to realize new public space by facilitating the occupation of these fencescape deviations.
Concept author(s)
Scott Shall
Concept author year(s) of birth
1974
Concept author(s) contribution
fencePOCKET is the latest work of the International Design Clinic (IDC) is a registered not-for-profit that helps students, artists, architects and other creative professionals use their unique creative talents to design and construct projects with communities in need throughout the world
Concept author(s) Country
United States of America
Designer(s)
Skye Ruozzi; Steph DeJarnette; Susie Nathan
Designer(s) year(s) of birth
1987; 1984; 1986
Designer(s) contribution
Defining the weaving process; Defining the weaving process; Creating the instruction manual
Designer(s) Country
United States of America
Other author(s)
Aaron Fleury; Jon Reisinger; Sarah Koljonen; Caroline Wineburg
Other author(s) year(s) of birth
1988; 1989; 1983; 1990
Other author(s) contribution
completed first gallery install at Swope Museum in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Other author(s) Country
United States of America
Friendly Competition
Love Conflict Imagination (2010-2011)
Competition category
Mobilization
Competition field
nonacademic
Competition subfield
activist
Subfield description
This is about reclaiming the public streets in useful ways. You can practice anywhere there is chain link fence.
Check out the Love Conflict Imagination 2010-2011 outlines of Memefest Friendly competition.
Description of idea
Describe your idea and concept of your work in relation to the festival outlines:
Fences define a perceptual edge between public and private lands. When these fences deform, this edge is thickened.
fencePOCKET is designed to realize new public space by facilitating the occupation of these fencescape deviations.
fencePOCKET uses reclaimed tarp to realize new public space within fencescape deviations, allowing others to create gardens, benches and freestores where only a bent fence currently exists.
This is about spreading love by beautifying and placemaking in our public streets.
What kind of communication approach do you use?
We use visual communication within a language of commonly-found materials. It is a communication based in color and positioning, not in a verbal language.
What are in your opinion concrete benefits to the society because of your communication?
We are creating a new place in a public space, one that can contribute to community-building. By utilitizing the chainlink fence as a garden or free store, a new meeting place emerges to foster further communications.
What did you personally learn from creating your submitted work?
I learned that determination and compromise are essential to the completion of any project.
Why is your work, GOOD communication WORK?
It is GOOD communication WORK because it takes what was a worn, dented, unsightly space and generates a new, brightly-colored meetingplace.
Where and how do you intent do implement your work?
A fencePOCKET can be implemented by anyone anywhere there is a deviation in a chainlink fence. This is a very common sight in the urban environment.
Did your intervention had an effect on other Media. If yes, describe the effect? (Has other media reported on it- how? Were you able to change other media with your work- how?)