John James Marshall thesis.pdf - OpenAIR @ RGU - Robert Gordon ...

Programme
Manager
…that ability to actually formulate the show was helped by
having it visually represented on a single page that you
scrolled through it. I’m not a big fan of wikis personally but I
knew that it did help in terms of communicating over
distances to different partners and different parts of the
country even though particularly in the look and feel the
wiki was quite instrumental in helping us to formulate that
far more than say, our meetings where we were looking at
work.
During the project the researcher set up a collaborative website (wiki) that was
used by the members of the project team. This was used to keep track of
information about the selection process for the commissions and the open call.
The researcher asked the partners how useful this was. Only PM had actively
posted information to the wiki. However, both partners agreed that it had been
useful in coordinating between the project’s many partners that were remotely
located. They also thought the images posted made it a useful tool to indicate
the ‘look and feel’ of the potential exhibition both internally and to prospective
project partners.
7. What kind of practitioners did you expect to be in the exhibition?
Creative I don’t know if I expected any kind of practitioner. I suppose
Director I expected a mix of kinds of practitioners and I suppose I
expected, because of the nature of your work and the vision
of the project, I expected to be working with artists that are
more product-led or 3D-led.
Programme I expected more architects to be in it… but I trained as an
Manager architect and I did think there was some interesting practice
out there that we could have shown. I wasn’t keen for us to
go down the blobitecture route which is quite easy in many
respects… I would still have liked to see some designs for
buildings not just designs for surfaces.
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