Building Barbegazi
2012
Designed by Rory McDonald
Designer : Jack O'Hagan
Designer: Joe Ridealgh
Designer: Polly Amery
Participant: Barbara Arita
Participant: Gabriele Caradonna
Participant: Andrej Dojchinovski
Participant: Drilon Elezaj
Participant: Antti Jäppinen
Participant: Aysel Karimli
Participant: Jelena Kazak
Participant: Iben Moller
Participant: Sandra Elise Nylund
Participant: Hani Salih
Participant: Nik Solina
Participant: Lauris Svarups
Participant: Jonė Virbickaitė
Categories: Environmental
Industry: Cultural
Building Barbegazi was a project about storytelling and identity, and how we, as designers articulate stories visually and spatially. The Project was about the process of visual communication and it's ability to embody cultural meaning and identity.
The Project consisted of the design, production and use of a lightweight toolkit of architectural and graphic elements to create temporary installations and site-specific interventions in the Swiss alps, based off of stories we had collected from locals.
Over a period of two weeks, we attempted to translate stories and experiences of each place and its inhabitants from a verbal language into a visual and spatial one. We assembled our kit of parts (timber planks, panels, fabric, rope) into backpacks, and hiked through villages and into the mountains, creating temporary installations as we went.
By taking the design process into the field, Building Barbegazi was a project about exploring the process by which we use visual communication as a language and trying to capture the magic moment a composition of physical elements begins to do more, and embody cultural and meaning.
