The script should explain my proposal as a series of event, backed with factual data, to explain how my proposal came to be. The following will explain my story through the use of information videos, some videos that give a 'sense' of what is happening, a written 'timeline' and some statistical research to explain the response to the design problem.
Timeline
2012 - Woodford folk festival occurs as per it's usually annual schedule. Although this time, with increased attended to it's focus on community and sustainability due to university exposure, the festival experiences high volumes of students and academics attending with the sole purpose of networking and learning from guest speakers.
2015 - By 2015 an increased cost of living has people driven people to form what is known as a DIY culture. The DIY culture visitors come to the site to both share and take away new ideas and techniques for building and constructing items that they need to make there lives more enjoyable. There is also a very high interest in sustainability and future proofing the worlds resources within this community. The 'DIYer' begin to set up stalls to swap/buy and sell their homemade technologies.
"The rise of contemporary DIY cultures have been accelerated by the rise of counter-cultural social, political and artistic neo-dada activities in the sixties. Happenings, Fluxus, Gutai, and the Situationist International raged through European, Asian and American avant-garde circles in the Cold War of the fifties, recalling the pivotal days before World War I, when artists began blending different artistic mediums, obliterating the borders between material and life itself."
http://georgemaciunas.com
Modern DIY Communities
Recent
breakthroughs in technology afford sharing such that anyone can quickly
document and showcase their DIY projects to a large audience. An emerging body
of tools allows enthusiasts to collaboratively critique, brainstorm and
troubleshoot their work, often in real-time.
This
accessibility and decentralization has enabled large communities to form around
the transfer of DIY information, attracting individuals who are curious, passionate
and/or heavily involved in DIY work. Thousands of DIY communities exist today,
varying in size, organization and project structure. Some allow members to
contribute asynchronously on a variety of topics, while others focus on
specific projects such as knitting, crocheting or hip craft . Some revolve around
smaller in-person gatherings [12] and some enable hobbyists to trade or sell
their projects.
We
hypothesize that DIY communities are also driven by scientific pursuit,
personal organization, community values and intrinsic enjoyment of creating DIY
objects. However, unlike communities that revolve around the creation of
digital artifacts such software, encyclopedia articles,
or blogs, DIY communities showcase meta information: personal experiences and
knowledge from creating physical objects,
projected into the public sphere.
(Rise of the Expert Amateur DIY Projects, Communities, and Cultures Stacey Kuznetsov & Eric Palos)
2020 - The Woodfordia organisers realise that the number or 'DIYer' is almost rivaling the 'Music Festival' visitor. The Woodfodia organisers decide to create place for them to set up their stalls but still be able to connect to the fesital. The space is also used as a temorary place to run lectures buy experts in sustainable living practices. Visitors also begin to build camps around the area as well as temporary storage shed and even laboratories and workshops.
2023 - After three successful year of the DIYer involvment at the Woodford folk festival organisers are approached are are requested to allow groups to the site once a week to have a swap meet and run some small workshops. After access is granted and the temporary structures where erected, people began to camp, set up there own work shops and run weekend long technology meeting attracted by the connection of like-mined people, the serine location of Woodfordia and the escape from the hustle and bustle of contemporary society.
2025 - After 2 successfully years of workshops and lectures, and many profitable technological outcomes the Woodfordia organisation is approached and offered an opportunity to pursue the DIY development and education of technologies as a profitable venture. They would require a permanent space for swap meets, work shops and lectures. Since the focus was primarily on technology and sustainability, an idea was put forward to create a student based institute that would possess all these spaces but be a profitable endeavor. Students could use the spaces during the week, while enthusiasts would use the spaces on weekend. Although students and public would we encouraged to mingle and share ideas, spaces would be available for them to work independent of each other. The premise of the proposal for the Woodfordia Organisation to create a place where people who are going out into the work to work with technology can have a sense of sustainable DIY culture instilled in them so that they can go into world and be an example, not to mension make a sizable profit in doing so.
2030 - After the approval is given for the initial concept, the plans and building complete in a very short time. The site now has a sustainability institute and housing for 250 students due to it's remoteness. The institute provides a learning environment for students interested in careers in sustainability and technology while being a stable and well equipped work space for DIYers and technology enthusiasts.
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