Unit 5 | Synopsis
Dr Tim Ireland, Chris Jones and Mark Coles
Having experienced lockdown, and the effects of isolation brought about by social distancing ones immediate environment becomes (or is emphasised) as a positive or negative agent to wellbeing. The setting of our individual lockdowns has been an active agent and fundamental constituent to our personal physical and mental health in these constrained times.
What if one had the ability to alter their setting? To change the very character of their environment, to shift aspects of, adapt the form, background or atmosphere allowing control of one’s environmental settings to enhance their mood or effect a change in sense of being.
Unit 5 takes the opportunity to imagine 'your world', to present a blueprint of it and to design a building for it. The new world will take impetus from our own (Earth: version 1.0) and respond to a problem or condition of it, which students seek to improve or respond to.