structures (in progress)

Greenwich Park

We all felt that our project so far had become a little bit dry and restricted to computers and studio work, and so we took ourselves to Greenwich park for a day of living within the borders we'd set ourselves. This helped us to understand what we were trying to achieve, and hopefully communicated the more tangible aspects of our concept to others. 

Pictograms

A series of pictograms representing the 10 points of our manifesto, taking the first letter of each point in our typeface, and using it visually, to represent the point. This is a simplified, reduced way of depicting complex points that could prove useful in relaying information to a wide range of people with maybe different dialects or even languages. 

visuals

trying to adapt visuals to a rigid concept of numbers and structure, cells came to mind.

Typeface

We have created a typeface using just 10 different shapes. By reflecting and rotating these shapes we created the letterforms of the alphabet.

Here is a Pangram sentence with each letter of the aphabet being used:

Manifesto

After researching Numerology and the association between words and numbers we compiled a 10 point manifesto to be applied to the country. This is a method of bringing structure to the country similar to the diagrams designed by Maslow and Steward.

1. Individual

2. Balance

3. Communication

4. Habitat

5. Motion

6. Synthesis

7. Wisdom

8. Preservation

9. Ethics

10. Rebirth

The list can be rearranged by priority as the country moves and adapts forming new coordinates.

nikki graziano

an interesting blog entry about Nikki Graziano here.

applying mathematical formulas to nature can tie in with our ideas of creating a numerical system.