I re-read the early chapters from a couple of my favourite books on mindfulness and they have plenty of useful ideas which can help shape the longitudinal sequence I’m planning. This post summarises each book’s key points and quotes.
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Research: Inflatable architecture
I mentioned my plans for ThoughtCounter during a coffee with my friend Luciano, an architect at Zaha Hadid. I showed him the sphere mood-board and he pointed me toward inflatable architecture as a field. Here’s what I found.
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Mood-board: The sphere
The shape I keep returning to is the sphere (or orb). One of the ThoughtCounter participants instinctively drew a simple circle on their questionnaire when asked to represent a thought, completely unprompted.
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ThoughtCounter – Interim show findings
Analysing the data when 81 people stood in the first version of the booth and tried to count their thoughts for one minute.
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5 artists who work with portable, temporary structures
Research into portable pop up structures for ThoughtCounter.
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Unit 1 Assessment: Tutor feedback and what’s next
Below is the Unit 1 assessment feedback in full, along with the actions I’m taking as a result.
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Post show ideas for the next iteration
It’s clear that people are genuinely curious about their own thoughts, and I was really happy with how the messaging drew them in entirely unprompted.
Now the show and our low residency week is over, a number of ideas and themes are emerging for me to explore in the next stage.
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Building the show
Here’s how the booth went from sketches to standing in two days – with a lot of help from some incredible friends, tutors and technicians.
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