Environmental Design Proposal

Environmental design proposal is a 100-200 word document that is a description of the physical parts of your environmental design. Your environmental design, to clarify, is a group project where the group decides on a location that is interesting visually that you would like to make additions or alterations to in order to make a visual statement. The proposal is the who, what , when , and where; communicating to me that your work will be safe and legal. 

who: what specific persons will perform what tasks?

what: what is the actual physical material used to alter you scene?

when: when will you install, document, and de-install the material you used to alter your scene? ,

where: Where is the specific location("at the beach" is not a specific location) Do you need permission to work in this location? Is is accessible to everyone?

It might be good and wise to include a concept sketch photo or site plan. 

Interview guidelines:

Interview guidelines:

Design requires research. Often times you will need to find an expert on a subject and crystalize their unique perspective with images and words. This requires an open dialogue. You can either approach this work like a journalist or as an oral history project(The latter is much more difficult and requires some training see http://www.doingoralhistory.org/Workshop/Trans_wshop.htm) Talk with you group and decide on subject you would like to find out more about.  Perhaps this will require a discussion of the subject of your final projects. There is an example on my blog Pile of Dirt. It is an interview I conducted via email with fashion designer Jade Chiu. I met her on a plane a few years ago and I thought she would be and interesting subject.  Come up with about 10 questions based on what you already know about your subject and record their responses through transcription,  audio, or video. Post the work (the documentation of your process, the photos, and your interview ) on your blog. This is going to take a lot of planning and coordination so start as soon as you all can. 

Ming Cho Lee: American Theater Wing Panel

http://americantheatrewing.org/wit/detail/design_09_98/

Robert Wilson: Audio interview

http://americantheatrewing.org/sdcfmasters/detail/robert_wilson

Julie Taymor: Audio Interview

http://s3.amazonaws.com/americantheatrewing.org/media/sdcfmasters/mp3/
SDCF_Masters_Taymor.mp3

Josef Svoboda La Traviata

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoCXgdrw4jA

Robert Wilson Einstein on the Beach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zlgQfhTFBA