FY T2 & T3

Blanche Howard (Year: 1)

T2B1 - "Modes of Life": Case study = "The Whale", 2000, Amsterdam. High density housing proposal for artists in residencies, Mexico City. 10 iterations, 10 being the chosen design. Key living conditions: Access to light, sense of community, social interaction. T2B2 - "Where is life": Unit design for the artist in residency high density housing proposal. Bringing the design to life through detailed drawing. Key tool - Imaginative Empathy. T3B1 - "Forecasting Changes by Making Projects": "Forget Me Nots" - A book presenting a raw compendium of postcards sent during the lockdown of Covid-19 between Blanche Howard and Selin Nisa Acikel. 176 postcards combining photography and text. Analysis and comparisons. Unearthing and examining the collective emotions felt during the lockdown of Covid-19, globally. Our aim has been to reveal whether such emotions have had a similar, collective impact on our perception of our own surroundings and our day-to-day, or whether our different situations and environmental conditions in fact disrupt this. We chose the medium of postcards to establish a personal and raw communication to produce a tangible collection of our collective thoughts and emotions.