Wednesday 12 February 2014

Spreading the Word

My passion for spoken word poetry seeped into my design thesis.

As it manages to encapsulate all my favourite things - theatre, performance, writing and visual arts, I realised there is so much potential to explore this particular craft, especially in a richly diverse country like Pakistan with an immense amount of indigenous ingredients to choose from and concoct our very own version of Spoken Word Poetry. 

As part of my Design Thesis, I created this portable booth that goes from one school to the next promoting freedom of expression.

1. The booth is foldable and hence portable, relatively light weight and can fit into a big car, like a van

2. There are writing prompts in the form of photographs available on the booth that can make some creative juice to start flowing

3. Since I wanted it to be interactive communicative and mostly focused on a younger audience due to the booth travelling to different schools, there is a lot of social media being explored.

4. There is an area in the middle where one's phone can be kept and you can either;
a. take a picture of what you wrote on the prompt card
b. record yourself performing or reciting what you wrote on your prompt card

5. This can then be shared on the instagram page @spokenstage or uploaded on facebook!

 








so this is how the folding happens:
The two doors shut like a closet 
and it's time to take it to another place. 



Oh! and in case it wasn't showing in the images,
the table in the center panel also folds down 
to allow the two doors on the side to close in.