Bomb Project

‘The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.’ Dee Hock

Over the last 3 days, all four years of IED have taken part in a group project called 'Bomb Project'. The idea was to create "a 3D reinterpretation, or a conceptual ‘portrait’ of a building typology." Each group was given a building typeology, either: care, learn, play, dwell or shop. Our group got dwell.

Through thinking about the word dwell and its meanings, the double meaning of the word was discovered. Dwell - a space or place, and dwell - to think, remember, ponder. Through this, the idea was to create a 'dwelling' in which to 'dwell'.

Our final design was a box which was covered in paper. The paper would be ripped down to release balloons into the air, which symbolised happy thoughts, and the escalation of them when a person's imagination and mind are left to wander.

The balloons had happy words on them, such as happiness, joy, glee and many more. In the centre of the box was a smaller carboard box, inside which was a single balloon with a question mark on it, asking the question: What is your happy thought?