237.130 Communication for Makers - Session 1: The Consequences of Our Making

 Task 1: Going for a Walk (walk #1)

Trace a regular route you take (e.g. trip to the supermarket, college etc) without going up or down steps.

Document through photos/film and make notes: Who is the environment made for? What aspects of the

environment are disabling?

Task 2: Walking, Seeing, Thinking (walk #2)

On another walk, collect/document 5 instances that spark your curiosity or imagination about the place

where you are.

On your walk, take photos, drawings, sound recordings, video, write notes or other ways of documenting and communicating what you saw and thought about the place you're in.

Describe what you see, know, wonder, think, feel about them, and/or bring traces of what you saw to class. We will be using these in session 2. Record your documentation and reflections in a blog or a workbook:

● some of these may be disabling spaces but you are not limited to these;

● some say something about you, your interests, your creative practice;

● in some we can see a story, an interesting juxtaposition, or may reveal an agenda or someone's interest.

This was one of the first places I went to when I was 6, I never actually noticed this sign despite it being the first thing you see before you enter the rose garden. Maybe I was still learning English is my reasoning.

Full view of the rose garden.

Floor plaque stating the sun dial was created in 1979. The Taupo Rose Society also put up and maintained all 800 bushes. It mentions the patroness as well as other members donated the fountain, bird bath and sundial.

Full view of the sun dial and my favourite and coolest part of the rose garden. I have yet to master how to read it properly.

Close up of the sun dial roughly around 7-8pm (I wanted a time to be away from nosy people, distractions and screaming kids across the park)

I've already mentioned the sun dial being my favourite and coolest part of the garden; but by far the most beautiful is the pergola where I went on Christmas with my partner.

I always assumed it was a ceiling that met at the centre until I finally looked up and saw it was asymmetrical but creative.