Distant Earth Workshop

A Five month workshop by Ruairi Glynn & Christian Kerrigan with the support of Creative Partnerships at Our Lady Primary School, Fenton, Stoke-On-Trent, UK. The principle aim of the workshop was to explore and expand the ‘young architects’ understanding of space. Using a range of traditional design techniques such as drawing, model making and story boarding alongside new technologies and techniques  including pressure sensitive video recording environments, telematic marionette performances and tangible interfaces, a class of 16 nine year old children explored space from the universe in scale, to the nano, from the 3Dimenional to the Nth Dimensional. At each stage they feedback into the workshops process leaving messages in the ‘Diary Room’ and through ‘Show and Tell’ sessions. Glynn & Kerrigan’s approach was to facilitate students own spatial exploration without predetermining the expected outcomes of the iterative fortnightly sessions. The final result of these collaborative design processes was a ‘floating city’ designed and built in an intensive final 3 day event.