Delight in the Everyday
Our installation for ‘Delight in the Everyday’, competitively selected for exhibition by Design Commission for Wales, combines our interests in place and making to explore what makes everyday public spaces delightful.
Our exhibit focuses on the host town of the exhibition. Typical of many small towns in Wales, Ruthin has a variety of urban public spaces: market squares, streets and lanes, courts and yards.
We aimed to reveal what makes these everyday spaces around the town special. We studied five spaces that might go unnoticed. A figure ground print represents the plan of each location as found- it’s shape, volume, enclosure edges and routes through. These spaces have then been recreated in paper models that reveal the features that give the space it’s character.
Our installation took elements of the town to the Craft Centre and exhibited them as artworks. In a reciprocal move, alongside the exhibit were take away maps illustrating a walking route around Ruthin that links together the spaces explored for Delight in the Everyday, allowing the visitor to explore these places in their own way.
All photos courtesy of DCFW