Natalie- Proposal

EXPERIENCE GENERATOR

Brief Three- Proposal

TITLE

'Thrown Out'

SUBJECT/TOPIC

Waste & Sustainability in the home

RESEARCH

Readings-

EPA Victoria, Ecological Footprints
Food Choices, Fact File 56
Food Technology, Food Packaging and its Environmental Impact

Recycle Art (Artist)-

Robert Bradford
HA Schult
Tim Noble & sue Webster

Collection of Waste-

Starting from the first day of September to the first day of October, I am collecting all the food packaging waste that comes into my home. Collecting this waste is slowly proving to not only me but the other members of my home that we go through a lot of packaging and need to make sure we dispose of it in the correct manor. It shows the amount of environmental impact we can have on the world just by the choices we make when going to the supermarket.

RELATIONSHIP TO PREVIOUS WORK

Looking through Brief One & Two, I feel that my work has kept a very domesticated quality or influence to my decisions on the context. I think that concentrating on another domestic issue which happens inside not only my home, but almost everyone else’s is another domestic quality to explore.

PROCESSES

To create this work, I will need a collection of a months worth of food packaging rubbish to show as an example of how much waste a home can produce in one month, with just food packaging. I am not certain what outcome I want to produce from this process of collection yet, but by having this rubbish I feel I could demonstrate this idea more effectively.

Below is a list I have created of ideas that could be an outcome for Brief Three which have come from my journal-

• Word Document: A list of everything collected on each day from the first of September to date
• Assessment of rubbish collected: Compare different weeks, different days to each other
  e.g. Weekends may have had more 'fast' meal packaging rather than fresh produce
• Create a Stop Motion film with the rubbish collected
• Create a sculpture/artwork
• Collate in order of collection, food category, size, colour, material, use by dates, alphabetically
• Photograph and file rubbish into daily folders
• Create an 'in home' installation with the rubbish
• Create a 'random location' installation with the rubbish
• Interview people in my home
• Interview people outside of my home regarding their thoughts to waste and sustainability in the home

I think I may like to do a bit of an analysis of all the waste collected as well as a main focus process to give my work more depth at final presentations.

RESOURCES

Not knowing what I want to do yet, I have listed all that I may need for any of the options above.

• Computer
• Camera
• Printer
• Cutting and glueing equipment
• Folders
• Paper
• Lighting e.g. Artificial, LED white light
• Voice recorder

TIMELINE

This is hard to breakdown because I still don’t know exactly what I want my outcome to be. [May need refining after meeting with Bruce and Lynn 27.09.11.]

W 10
Tuesday 27^th September- 10am meeting with Bruce & Lynn to discuss proposal

Friday 30^th September- Blog writing, consultation with Bruce regarding my thoughts on what was discussed on Tuesday. Let Bruce know exactly what I want my outcome for Brief Three to be.

W 11

Tuesday 4^th October- Portfolio development presentation due. Look at creating my portfolio to the best I can, get feedback on layout and text from Bruce and the class. Write notes on what to change and what to include.

Friday 7^th October- Consultation with Bruce- Show him my work so far to date. Ask questions and get evaluation on progress of work and idea. Write notes and include changes and inclusions needed for progression over weekend. Work on WIP presentation for Bruce and Lynn on Tuesday. Write down questions that my need answering for Tuesdays class.

W 12

Tuesday 11^th October- WIP presentation with Bruce and Lynn. Ask questions and write down notes for working over W 13 at home.

Friday 14^th October- Consultations with Bruce. Ask questions and discuss issues with how I will be presenting this work at my final presentation W 15. Take notes.

W 13

Work at home- Make sure I stay on track with all my work. Upload to blog and continue journal entries to help me stay focused on my progress.

W 14

Work at home- Make sure I stay on track with all my work. Upload to blog and continue journal entries to help me stay focused on my progress.

Friday 28^th October- FINAL ASSESSMENT PRESENTATION WORTH 60%

W 15
Thursday 3^rd November- FOLIO [BLOG] SUBMISSION WORTH 20%
Exhibition

EXPECTED OUTCOME

I am still to decide on my exact expected outcome. I hope that I can have some amount of analysis and some amount of creative presentation/ structure presentation to show my idea to the best ability.

I am leaning towards photography of each item and placing them in some sort of order/collation that could be appropriate. A Stop Motion film may also be fun as well as some interviews.