Experience Study & Design
Co-designers: Eva Papadouraki & Theodora Sianou
Supervisor: Phoebe Giannisi
Thesis Project
Year: 2019
A study of space and bodies, Crowd Conditions documents bodies of crowds during events, ranging from protests to religious ceremonies, and focussing on "party culture" and the terms of this group experience designs its own crowd through the "Animal Party".
We studied and documented 27 events for every one of which we designed diagrams for the codification of the elements of the crowd such as paths, sounds and intensity. Interested in the element of free movement through dancing and the state of intensity we further studied party crowds, leading to the design of a unique crowd experience the "Animal Party". An experimental party introducing various spacial features and role playing games with the crowd.
DOCUMENTATION & STUDY
ANIMAL PARTY DESIGN, EXECUTION & DOCUMENTATION
The crowd is a situation that has to be experienced in order for its feeling to be understood.
You can observe it from the exterior but to perceive it you have to traverse it, touch it, feel its intensity, be part of it, move freely within it.
