The literary world that surrounds Alice (Alice in Wonderland and Looking Through the Glass Mirror) has been an endless source of inspiration / provocation in the realms of creative cultral engagement since their publication.
The objective of the project is to undergo a design journey to reconcile the imaginary world of Alice into the mysterious physical world of Joseph : When Alice Liddell meets Joseph Williamson.
The preserve of the imagination is to be explored in its fullest sense from sources drawn from the literary and visual worlds into the realms of physical spatial architectural investigations. You are invited to design a resource inspired by the works surrounding Alice and her world through your own interpretation of the subject. The main thrust of the project will be in the space-making process where you will be expected to execute drawings and model-making as the key
means for inquiry.
The impetus for the project begins in earnest by making a visit to the exhibition at Tate Liverpool where you are asked to engage in the world of observation, recording and ultimately the imagination as a precursor to the development of the brief for your project.
Your first task is to generate your brief for the project and declare your objectives where the work of the following may be exhibited / archived / transformed :
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
John Tenniel
Anna Gaskell
Annelies Strba
Torsten Lauschmann
Surrealists
Various architectural themes are to be considered to facilitate the engagement of the imagination towards creative design of spatial possibilities:
Scale shifts
The Art of This Century: Kiesler
Largeness, smallness
Underworld
The Monumental,
Stratification
Perspective
Reality and the City
Lime Street’s trench,
Agoraphobia, claustrophobia
Visual, virtual and symbolic thresholds
“Take care of the sense and the sounds
will take care of themselves.” “Everything’s
got a moral, if only you
can find it.” “One of the secrets of
life is that all that is really worth
doing is what we do for others.” “If
you don’t know where you are going,
any road will get you there.” “That’s
the reason they’re called lessons,
because they lessen from day to day.”
“Everything’s got a moral, if only
you can find it.” “I can’t go back
to yesterday - because I was a different
person then.” “Who in the
world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”
“Sometimes I’ve believed as
many as six impossible things before
breakfast.” “It’s a poor sort
of memory that only works backwards.”
The extent of the Williamson tunnels is the
result of a number of excavations conducted
by Joseph Williamson over two
hundred years ago. The mystery of the
works resonates equally with Williamson’s
reasoning for the creation of the tunnels,
fuelling possibilities for imaginative exploration
- this will be the site for your project.
This will also take into account the
dynamics of the existing railway cutting,
the existing network of ‘underground’
tunnels, the unconfirmed presence of
the tunnels and the original residence of
Joseph Williamson.
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