The Curious Mystery of Mr. Red Drum and The Best Intern

Team Members: Lydia, Calista

Project Focus: Peculiar books of the ADM Library

Game Synopsis: A body was found in the black space of the ADM Library on 17 April 2017, 9:03PM. The Police Academy NTU has been lacking manpower due to unforeseen circumstances, and hence seeks curious detectives to investigate the crime Read more →

Proposed Location: – study area – Synopsis: In the library, people usually keep to themselves, avoiding eye contact and not saying hello to each other. I often get curious what these people may be thinking in their heads or what kind of people they are like. With the pictionary, narratives are sought out if and when the person has a backstory to Read more →

Research and Inspiration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlEYbZhuco8

This task was built in a way where it was self sustaining in a way where people would take any random task from tasks in the box. Once they were done with their own task, they would write a new task and add it to the box and the cycle continues.

Materials were provided and free for use for creativity Read more →

Group members: Rochele & Ling Ern

Project Three requires us to explore the idea of site-specific intervention, by incorporating images, text and media. So what is site-specific installation?

“It refers to an artist’s intervention in a specific locale, creating a work that is integrated with its surroundings and that explores its relationship to the topography Read more →

Observations The library is a quiet and peaceful place for study and browsing of books. People of different nationalities, age and faculties come here. However, there was this one thing that struck me. Most of the people there were using earpiece or headphones while they were doing their work. They seem really comfortable and undisturbed in Read more →

I decided to initiate the final project for this semester by answering the research questionnaire included in the brief, and surprisingly, all three of my ideas sprung from them.

What is the architectural layout of the space?

What furniture exist int he space?

As we enter the library and take a left, to the Read more →

Ideation

In the library, the people there are mainly studying, doing work or sleeping. It was not that packed when I visit it. Less interactions between the people unless they meet some friends. The quiet atmosphere feels relaxed. Did a rough sketch of the library layout.

# Idea 1

Title: Memories Kaleidoscope

Location: Near sofa

Synopsis: In the ADM library, most people are young adults. They Read more →

 Installation Research: mostly situated in libraries

 1)  Open Land Art & Fact Team: Interactive Installation at DePaul | 2017

(https://environmentalcritique.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/open-land-art-fact-team-interactive-installation-at-depaul/)

This is meant to be an interactive experience where participants are invited to read, inspect, and comment on the items in the shelves. The table has instructions with stickers and comment cards that participants can affix to the back of photographs in the bin Read more →

Group: Ling Ern,  Rochelle

Research Process:

Architectural Layout: 

What (furniture/fixture) exist in the space:

sofas / counters / student tables / book shelves / bean bags / computer tables / printers

What surrounds the place:

books / smell of books / quietness / library goers / occasional tourists / pretty view

Who goes there:

Mostly ADM students or NTU students (during exam period) – Read more →

Group Members: Vanessa, Sammi

Idea #1: String sculpture

Aim: To show interconnectedness between different genres

Gather books from different categories like Art History, Graphic Design etc. Each of them would be represented by different colours. E.g. Red for art history. Then we will create this string structure of the colours of rainbow and they will converge at a point. At the converged point, Read more →