Market Palace

The Market Palace was a great success for ThirtySix, we were so pleased to have all the interest, contribution, and to see people sending snapchats throughout the day. 

Overall, we thought the day ran smoothly, with a large amount of people confessing, and our  successful stall set up contributed to this result.

From set up the day before the Market, we had our stall layout planned and understood by every group member, which made for an effective set up. The washing line turned out great, with the concrete bases inclosed in cardboard boxes, lined with rubbish bags. As pointed out by the facilitators, we needed to be extra cautious with putting concrete straight onto the Great Hall floors. 

On the morning of the Market, we were ready for our pitch, deciding it would be more effective to have two people explaining our stall, while the rest interacted with steps of the demonstrations. From what we saw, the tutors were happy with what we had achieved, and how far our concept had grown from our initial 'Grotto/Garden Confessions'.

Throughout the day, we had a maximum of 2 people at the stall at one time; this was agreed as a group to try our best to encourage (not scare away!) potential confessors. With our stall layout, people who interacted with the stall easily understood where to go, and what to do. It was great to see some students reading the confessions, and then coming and contributing their own.

Construction

The construction of the washing line required a bit of forethought and planning. During a team meeting we came to the conclusion the best way to construct out washing line structure so it could be free standing (to go in the great hall) would be to set the wooden frame into a concrete base.

After figuring out some technical specifications for the wooden frame and deciding what height would be best suited for people it didn't take us long to get to work.

The process of constructing the washing line involved cutting the wood into the appropriate lengths; screwing the two components together; drilling the holes for the line to go through; and finally setting the posts into their concrete bases.

Washing Basket

Hey guys! We are welcome to use this washing basket to 'dispose your dirty laundry' at the Market Palace. It is below waist height, so may be perfect for sitting in-between the ironing boards; an easy access area for both writing stations. :)

Also, I have a ironing board available- if we can just find one more?

Logo + Screen Printing

Katelyn and I met up briefly after class on Monday to decide on the logo that we would get printed onto our team tshirts. This is the logo we decided on.

We then had a group meeting on Tuesday so that I could collect everyones tshirts to get the logo screen printed on to. We also discussed what was still needed to organize as far as sourcing and constructing all components necessary for the day of the market.

This is the mockup the screen printer sent me of what the t-shirts will look like.

Meeting with the Tutors

We met with tutors today to discuss how our interventions went and how they have affected our idea.

When we said people will be writing on clothes they said how difficult it will be and that it would slow the process and flow of our stall down. They suggested paper t-shirts instead, as in paper cut up in the shape of t-shirts, much easier to write on and still gives the clothes effect.

However, we had a discussion as a group whether to use MDF or paper as our clothes. We decided on paper as it will be cheaper and easier to write on because otherwise it would be paint as another cost for the MDF and then we have to test how easy it would be to write on a painted surface. So we are sticking with paper. The tutors said you can easily laser cut about 250 t-shirts at a time, however we are pretty sure that would set on fire!

so we will use a template and craft knife multiple t-shirts at once, we also thought it would make it more interesting to have pants as well as underwear shapes, just to mix things up. We will be making the clothes out of A3 so that they are a good size to write on.

We will be putting up paper t-shirts and clothes before the market begins which has the serious secrets from our trials scribed on them. This is so people can see how the idea works and also sets boundaries and a atmosphere of what people are actually writing about so it's taken more seriously.

Our station works in a circuit formation, two ironing boards with a 'washing machine' (made out of a cardboard box with a picture of a washing machine on the front, with the door cut out so you can reach in) beside each ironing board on a stool so that the washing machines are higher, so people can drop their t-shirts into the top of them easily.

Our rules will be printed on paper in the shape of t-shirts and blu-taked to the walls about each ironing board, this makes it clear when people are writing, what they can and cannot say. That means our t-shirts will be white and just have the logo on the back and on the front, so people know what stall we belong to and who to talk to if they have questions.

We thought about spraying febreeze through the area to give the laundry smell and atmosphere.

Floor plan and visual flow of the stall. Front and back of the t-shirts with the logo positions and size

Structure plan for the washing line using wood and a concrete base

A logo concept

This was the one I quickly created for the posters that were up during the trials:

Emma's logo concepts

These are the logo concepts I came up with…

LOGO CONCEPTS

At our meeting last week, the VCD students decided that we wanted to get a logo going for our stall.
So I've just put together a few concepts to start off with.

Please leave some comments on which ones you like, or think work best!

Trial Results

We left our trials up for 2 days. 

I then went to collect them and was annoyed when I realised one of them had been completely removed and was no-where to be seen. When set up the previous day some older students moved it to the side because they were setting up a coffee stand type thing for the morning, however I went to talk to them and they said they would be gone by 2pm and would put it back for me when they left. 

I don't know if it was put up and someone took it or someone just thought it was rubbish, either way don't trust people. 

Also someone stole the sharpie from one of the interventions so obviously we have to tie down the pens as people like to steal. 

With that in mind, the other two were still intact, one with a line and pegs, and one without

The one placed in the industrial building got less participation, however this was the one with the line being displayed so maybe people weren't keen to have their secrets displayed, also because there may have been less foot traffic. 

This is a photo of the responses:

A you can see most people didn't seem to put down serious things. But some people do seem to be participating probably which is nice. We didn't have rules displayed which was a bad call, and we should have remembered the point of the exercise is to test a few aspects not just one. 

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The other intervention was placed in Te Ara Hihiko by the kitchen on a table. This got a lot more responses and although a lot were just stupid and some advertising for the wardrobe, people had noticed it and wanted to interact with it which is great that we got response at all.

This may have had a larger amount of participation because of the foot traffic, the people in the building or even the fact that you had to put it in a box and that was it, no public display at all.

I had a thought that it would be interesting to have these boxes set up everywhere and keep collecting people secrets and responses and then print them large and display them on walls of our stalls as an art installation at the market..however we would only use serious sounding secrets such as 'I stole a girls work book becuz she stole my computer on D floor. Sorry xxx' 

It would be interesting to have them blown up large and have a large display. however we really like the idea of interaction still, and not sure if we could just change our idea to an installation that people look at and the tutors will probably think it's not very original or creative enough.

So tomorrow we need to talk together as a group and see if we need another trial with a voting booth type thing made out of cardboard to see if that affected people and what they wrote. Making it more serious. 

More Testing

After our tutor bookings with two of the tutors (can't remember their names), they basically told us that we were still at the concept stage (which I actually highly disagree with) and encouraged us to do some more testing.

We had a discussion about whether people would be okay with writing their confessions and then having to pin them up in front of everyone. It might make people feel a little bit awkward, and that they couldn't actually write what they actually wanted to incase people saw and knew that it was theirs.

We have had this discussion earlier, and resolved it with the Confession Garden - having little nooks and crannies for people to roll up their confession and hide it. But somewhere along the process of developing the idea to a laundry/washing line, these thoughts got lost in translation.

So today Charlotte set up a couple of stations around the campus to test whether people were more inclined to post confessions if they didn't know that they had to put up their confession on the line.
I went back to the stations after 4 or so hours of them being set up, and it seemed as though the station without the line had more hits, but there could also be other factors - traffic flow etc.

Block 12                                                                                         Industrial Block

So tomorrow, we are going to swap the stations over, to see if it's just a matter of the amount of people walking through the different buildings or not.

Team Meeting

Today we had a group meeting to discuss and finalize certain aspects of our market stall before the tutor bookings scheduled for Wednesday.

In this meeting:

• We talked about how we wanted people to interact with our market stall. We thought that perhaps sticking vinyl cut instructions on the floor would work best as far as guiding people through our instillation.

• We decided that instead of having people write their confessions on pieces of paper it would be more appropriate to gather second hand clothing to write on so as to continue our washing line theme further.

• Looked at layout, so how the different elements would be set out in the space we are provided with. The three main elements would be one or two old washing machine(s) (depending on what we can get hold of) filled with second hand t-shirts and other scrap materials for people to write their confessions on, a couple of ironing boards with clamps attached (see drawings above) to stretch out the t-shirts/material and make them easier to write on, and a washing line to hand the t-shirts/materials on. We want the three steps (pick a t-shirt, write confession and then hang it on the line) to be in a logical order so as to not cause chaos on the day. We want the washing machines and ironing boards to be slightly separated from the washing line and have that section to have an indoor feel, whilst giving the washing line area an outdoor feel. Refer to the image below to see how we want the layout to look. Were are going with the top layout as we decided the bottom layout would probably take up too much space.

• We planned out how to build the washing line structure and how it would look. We decided that concrete bases would work best to provide stability, and would also be the cheapest and most efficient way of doing this.

• We wrote a to do list stating all of the things we need to do before market day and also wrote a shopping list of all the things we need to buy for our market stall.

Week 7 Presentation Reflection

Pretty stoked with how the presentation went. It seemed as though the video was well received - hearing laughter from the audience at times really cemented that we had successfully brought back the humour and light-hearted feel back to our experience, which was a huge plus!

Seeing all of the other presentations were good also, as we were able to see that we still had a point of difference about the thing we were offering - no other stall has an idea which crosses over with ours.

But it has also made us realise how much some of the other groups had done, in terms of planning, and how much more we need to do between now and the Market Palace!

Making the presentation continued..

Presentation Video

Making the video

3D model created using google sketchup to appear in the video

T shirt template

Final presentation video produced using After Effects to compile the 3D model footage and audio files. the song in the backgroung is Ce Matin La by Air.

Creating our Presentation

Today we meet up for a few hours and went through our idea and made our presentation for Wednesday.

Our idea has now changed from a grotto of secrets and a garden theme, to hanging out your dirty laundry. This changed our idea because now we will have a free standing washing line structure which people will peg up notes which express what's on their mind. During the trial a few people mentioned it was like the act of 'hanging out your dirty laundry' we decided this would be a way to push our idea further and make it more creative and fun.

A t-shirt will be hung from the washing line which has the rules on it so it's nice and clear because from the trial we realised people swear, use names and are sometimes culturally insensitive. Because this will be open for people to read we don't want it to offend anyone as it is supposed to be an anonymous, fun and almost cleansing experience to get things off your chest.

Our presentation has a voice over explaining our project along with a 3D model of what our experience will look like, as well as a very simple t-shirt design to explain our concept.  

We will be brainstorming names for the official market but for now we have gone with 'on the line.' Other options discussed today were:
wash ya waiting for?
wash up
wash out
'_____' cycle
dress to confess
laundry day 

Slogans:
you can't peg who dun it
it all comes out in the wash
a little dirt never hurt

Reflection

Reflecting on how the presentation/trial went, we came away with some really great feedback.

After having some conversations with the facilitators, and other tutors interacting with our stall for the first time, has created a few new sparks in potential areas we could further take this idea, and other elements we could add to enhance the experience that we are offering our customers.

Originally, just for the trial period, we thought of using the clothes frame - only because we needed something to test the hanging of the 'confession' onto. This created some really interesting discussions around this idea of 'airing your dirty laundry.'

We, as a group, think that this has some really interesting potential. After seeing what quite a few of the other groups are offering, we have realised that there are many other stalls offering soothing/anti-stress experiences and products. This could be a really interesting way of changing things up, and yet keeping that essence of confessions. This could also add quite a cool edge of humour back into the concept, which is something that we all enjoyed about the initial idea.

From here, we now have quite a bit more work to do. Almost feels like we need to back-track, and redo quite a bit of planning of the logistics of how this is going to look and work but will be very beneficial as we all feel this idea is stronger and actually quite a bit more attainable than the confessional garden.

Just a wee example of the type of feel that I have in my head for this new direction. Clean fresh sheets on the line, bright light, and the smell of washing powder as the stuff blows in the wind on the line!

Class Presentation

Today we put a prototype of our idea on display in the Museum building. Tables were set up and we displayed our model on the table, taped our poster up and had our interactive clothes line as a display.

The tutors came round and gave us feedback about: 

-Using sharpies - green, to go with the theme and make it easier to read

-Being dressed up to a garden theme

-Having a title of 'Confession Garden' obvious to people so they know what it is, making them want to interact

-Thinking about the structure (what it's made of and how much space we need). 

- Possibly creating a bamboo structure and leaving the leaves on

- Making rules so people have no names or slagging people off

- the idea of airing your dirty laundry out, washing line environment, still pegging up confessions

The facilitators also came round to ask what our idea was about to discuss things like storage, power requirements, space requirements and the health & safety issues.

We went around to explore other people's models and prototypes which was interesting to see what other people had come up with. It was definitely more successful and more inviting if people had something you could interact with or they had their actual product on display. People were less inclined to go up and ask about a stall if it was just drawings of their plan. 

Our display went well because by the end we had 8 added confessions which was a great result considering we felt people were intimidated by us watching them write. Before people came round we had 6 confessions already on display so people could read them but also be encouraged to add, rather than adding to a blank canvas. Everyone who came round read the confessions and some laughed as they could even relate to what was being said. 

We now realise we must have a set of rules in place for writing a confession as people did not take it seriously all the time, and names were mentioned as well as swearing or inappropriate comments. We believe that the participation will be ore serious as will the confessions when people are placed in our final environment. But the good news is people wanted to participate.

     

  

      

Prototyping

Met this afternoon after class to do a bit of making for Wednesday's class.

Talked through logistics of the actual making- what is actually going to be realistic, affordable, functional and look good aesthetics wise.

For next Wednesday, the main thing that we are wanting to test is the ethics of this project.
We want to test, by the responses that people will give in class, if we will need to implement rules or guidelines for writing the confession.

Anna made a really great point in class yesterday about how this process could be potentially harmful to someone by the confessions written, so Wednesday will be a good indicator of whether the people interacting with our stall will need guidelines.

We also aim to make a model as a demonstration of how our archway will look, and how it can be interacted with.

Week 5 Class Session

Today in class we met as a group and each discussed our top three adaptations of the confession wall idea. We discussed the plausibility of our new ideas and spoke about our favorites.

We lay the ideas out on the ground to get an idea overview. Instead of choosing just the one idea we took aspects we liked from several ideas to form a new one. Below are the pages we formulated our new ideas on in class.

We thought of several different ideas, one was a walk through dome with a tree in the center and fairy lights + foliage to form the dome. You could attach your confession on the inside walls and ceiling of the dome, but we realized it was a little ambitious and unrealistic. The idea we decided on was a walk through frame. The top of the frame would be criss-crossed with string (as seen in the drawings above) where the confessions could be hung. The walls on either side would be hung with drapes, foliage and fairy lights to form a tunnel. We are considering the idea of making it possible to attach confessions to the walls as well. The tags that the confessions are written on would be laser cut MDF in the shape of leaves. We are also thinking about creating a twitter hashtag where we can upload some of our favourite confessions so that people can read them and post their own. We could possibly display the twitter page on a TV screen at the event. 

To prompt people to think of what to write we thought about narrowing the 'confession' down to 'things you wish you could say', but we will test the two out next week. We have organized to meet up as a team tomorrow to create our scaled down model of how the stall could look.

Charlotte's Top 3 Ideas

These are my top three ideas. They all came from our group discussion during the week about expanding the idea of the confession wall. I really like the idea of people being able to come and participate in an experience that would be unique in the market. I also like the idea of making it feel like a really calm, positive thing to do because it will be during a very stressful time for students and maybe they all need something like this. I like the idea of incorporating nature because it would be great to have an environment that made the experience inviting to people when they see it

Emma's Top 3 Ideas

Below are my top three ideas to expand on the confession wall idea. They all have the same overall idea but expressed in quite different concepts. My personal favourite out of these three is 'The Wall of Flame' concept. I like it because it has a strong theme to it and could look really effective in the great hall. It also ties to the root of where the confession comes from which is a religious background and turns it into something fun and modern. It also links to the burning of secrets as a way to get over them and move on. The bottle cap candles would link in well and be an incentive to get people to participate with our instillation.

Jordan's top 3 ideas