Today we met with Mark O'Halloran inside the Museum Building. We had a walk around, exposed our ideas and work so far to him and he gave us some interesting insights. He posed the following question:
What do you want the user to get out of it?
Mark likes the idea of thinking about the building as an organic creature, being "fed" by its users and what they do inside it.
He was also interested in peeling off the different layers of technology contained in the building and how you can use sound/video/audio to explore these layers in steps instead of producing slide shows of "normal" photos of the building. Mark pointed out how the sound the building generates indicates that it is alive and questioned how could you interpret the feeling of visitors of the building.
He agrees that sound is a main component of the character of the building, but also commented on the spatial quality of it while looking at main hall from the top floor. ("Feels like a cathedral").
Mark also commented on how people seem to have a loss of confidence once they go through the main door and the sense of unease. He suggested we get visitors to do line sketches of the building when they get in to see how they interpret it.
Killian and Dara spoke to Neil Kearney (administrator of the Geology Department - neilkearney at tcd dot ie) about access to the building and our plans to carry out experiments inside and he said that was fine. They also spoke to Elaine Ecullen (cartographer of the Geology Department - elaineecullen at tcd dot ie) about getting access to maps and other info.
NEXT STEPS:
Each of us are going to write down a couple of experiments we would like to carry out in the building and also think about suggestions for the manifesto.
We'll meet tomorrow (Thursday) at 10 am to discuss our findings.
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