Place: inside and outside by https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu Information and activities en-us 2020-03-25 18:51:16 UTC 2026-02-25 06:36:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/479908940/054ea9e224a1cb5a62fba80db07f02d5/Trafalgar_sq.jpg Place has acquired new meanings in recent weeks. We are confined largely to one place, our homes and maybe we are spending longer than usual in a place within that place - bed for example! This is the place in my home in which I am spending a lot of time in at the moment and this is where I will be talking to you in tutorials. I'm wondering what the section of my home you can see behind me is saying about me! fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/475263686  ]]> 2020-03-25 19:13:35 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/475263686 a. Street Photography WATCH: 3 minutes fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/496673029 When we use the word street in conjunction with fashion or photography we are conferring ideas of authenticity and 'everydayness'.  The see the street as a place where we find 'real' people engaged in their 'real' lives.  

This is Bill Cunningham, he was an American fashion photographer for the New York Times, famous for his candid and street photography.  Here the street is spectacle and theatre!  Has this way of using the street disappeared under Corona Virus? Comment below]]> 2020-04-07 12:45:29 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/496673029 There is a great documentary about Bill Cunningham, watch the trailer here: fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/496943014 2020-04-07 14:45:52 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/496943014 You can watch the whole film here, it's very entertaining! fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498360517 I'm afraid it's not fantastic picture quality.]]> 2020-04-08 09:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498360517 1. INTRODUCTION TO PLACE: INSIDE fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498488939 Start here!]]> 2020-04-08 11:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498488939 Post an image of your place on Aula! Don't forget to caption it. fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498654239 2020-04-08 13:12:40 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498654239 While the inside - our homes - are a private space, the outside is a public space. However, while most of us can still go outside for a walk or a run, some of us can only look at the outside through a window. Just as our relationship with the inside is changing, so is our experience of the outside: The Street fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498658580 2020-04-08 13:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498658580 There are different ways of conceptualising the street and different ways of representing and characterising it. Look at these two different ways of thinking about the street. fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498679153 2020-04-08 13:25:02 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498679153 What is the relationship between fashion and place? WRITE: 4 minutes fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498788006 Fashion works to define the relationship between the body and social space "between private experience and public content' (Quinn 2003 p135). What does this quote mean and how does it relate to ideas of the inside and the outside?

Can you explain below:

Bradley, Q., 2003. The fashion of architecture. New York: Berg, ]]> 2020-04-08 14:16:15 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498788006 William Whyte moveable chairs: watch this clip: fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498969286 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uowJa3pstlw

]]> 2020-04-08 15:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498969286 WATCH: 1 minute 42 seconds. fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498972263 How do people occupy the everyday social life of the street? William Whyte was an American urbanist,  journalist and people-watcher. He identified the elements that create vibrant public spaces within the city and filmed a variety of urban plazas in New York City in the 1970s. Whyte described urban public life in an objective and measurable way. These observations developed into the "Street Life Project", an ongoing study of pedestrian behaviour on the city streets. 

Much of Whyte's work contradicts other conventional wisdom, for instance, the idea that pedestrian traffic and car traffic should be separated. 

A number of key factors were identified for  gathering spots. First on this list was an abundance of inviting places to sit and relax. Benches, movable chairs, ledges and steps could all provide hospitable seating. Plazas that were devoid of life and activity did not provide such seating. In fact, some private owners of these plazas went out of their way to deter people from sitting altogether by placing spikes on surfaces, designing planters too high for sitting or simply providing no seating at all. At the end of the film, Whyte stated, “The street is the river of life of the city. They come to these places not to escape but to partake of it.” 

Think about how Whyte's ideas translate to Greenwich Peninsula -which is a privately owned space  - how could the area immediately around Ravensbourne be improved by reflecting on Whyte's findings?  Post comments below.]]> 2020-04-08 15:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498972263 In what way does this connect to how people have to behave under Corona Virus? fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498983419 Comment below]]> 2020-04-08 15:43:08 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/498983419 The street is a place which has particular meanings for both fashion and photography and for intersections between the two. We talk about 'street style', 'street photography', we might describe somebody as 'street'. So what do we mean by street fashion or street photography? fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/499655277 2020-04-08 23:59:19 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/499655277 MAKE: 20 minutes fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/499657949 What happens when social life is removed from the street?]]> 2020-04-09 00:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/499657949 What is Whyte suggesting people are doing with these chairs? fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/499660053 Comment below]]> 2020-04-09 00:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/499660053 How are people occupying the streets under Corona Virus? Those same places that may have been designed to encourage us to linger, to relax or to gather are empty and for the moment 'gathering' is forbidden. Look at the spaces in the landscape of the street but also the space between people. The crowded streets of Bill Cunningham's New York seem like another lifetime, the scene below is our new normal. fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/499661592 2020-04-09 00:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/499661592 Document your own street in a new Street Life Project. fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/499665705 Find your own way to document the life of the street now. Make images or a video of your street, record people's movements or behaviour on the street in images or diagrams or write about it in prose or poetry...Post your creative response below or on Aula:]]> 2020-04-09 00:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/499665705 More and more museums are attempting to gather records of peoples everyday lives at this time of crisis - both inside and outside. Many museums are currently asking the public to document life under Covid 19. Read about what museums are doing below in this article from the New York Times. fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/499698726 2020-04-09 00:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/499698726 READ: 2 minutes fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/500141720 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/arts/design/museums-coronavirus-pandemic-artifacts.html]]> 2020-04-09 08:59:06 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/500141720 LOOK: 3 minutes. Example idea: Documenting life under Corona Virus fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/501142891 Photographer Dan Giannopoulos explains what drew him to start photographing the discarded plastic gloves he found on the street as the coronavirus began to affect the way of life in the UK.]]> 2020-04-09 19:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/501142891 SUBMIT YOUR PHOTOGRAPH TO A MUSEUM COLLECTION! fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/501155216 The Museum of the Home is one of those institutions which is documenting our life under Corona Virus.  The museum is asking people to share photographs of their home and how they are living in it right now.       
Submit your own photograph to a museum collection here:
://www.museumofthehome.org.uk/explore/stay-home-collecting-project/]]> 2020-04-09 19:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/501155216 Checklist: Have you read / watched / written / posted? fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/504393465 Have you anything else to add - where else could thinking about 'the street' take you... ?!

Any questions or suggestions, e mail me or Carole at f.carter@rave.ac.uk
c.evans@rave.ac.uk]]> 2020-04-13 11:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/504393465 Here are the things for you to read, watch, look at, comment on and make before the online session this week. This is a conversation between all of us - so please contribute, comment on and extend everybody's ideas! fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/504397190  ]]> 2020-04-13 11:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/504397190 A Photograph of Nothing READ and COMMENT 5 minutes cevans143 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/508281611 Read this description of one of Robert Frank's photographs, by another great street photographer, Gary Winogrand.

What does he mean when he says "photograph is of nothing"?

Do you agree with it?

 "In a talk in October 1970, Winogrand said Frank’s picture of gas pumps near Santa Fe, New Mexico, was “one of the most important pictures in the book. It’s also a photograph of nothing . . . When [Frank] took that photograph, he couldn’t possibly know that it would work . . . The fact of photographing something changes [it]. I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that’s why I photograph, in the simplest language.”

Source:
 https://www.ft.com/content/522284fc-1119-11e8-940e-08320fc2a277]]> 2020-04-15 11:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/508281611 Street Photography; street scenes. LOOK and WRITE 5 mins cevans143 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/508381728 Have a look at these two images. 

What is similiar about them? What is different? What do they tell us about the place and time in which they were taken?]]> 2020-04-15 12:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/508381728 b. Street Photography WATCH: 4 minutes. cevans143 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/508398725 Watch this clip about street photographer Bruce Gilden. 

How is his approach different from that of Bill Cunningham?

Are there any ethical issues with his approach?

What do you think? Is the street a public place? Or should you be entitled to privacy?

Do you know of any different rules in other countries?]]> 2020-04-15 12:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/508398725 Want to know more about Street Photography? Watch This: cevans143 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/508435244 This is the fourth episode of the Genius of Photography, a fantastic BBC documentary charting the history of Photography. This episode is on the subject of photographic journeys, and considers the beginnings of street photography as we know it after WW2. It's available on Planet eStream, which you can log into using your Ravensbourne credentials.]]> 2020-04-15 13:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/508435244 2. PLACE:OUTSIDE fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/509335333 2020-04-15 19:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/509335333 3.HOW DO WE THINK ABOUT THE STREET? fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/509488337 2020-04-15 21:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/509488337 4.THE STREET LIFE PROJECT fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/509491689 2020-04-15 21:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/509491689 5. MAKE A NEW STREET LIFE PROJECT fcarter24 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/509495614 2020-04-15 21:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/509495614 Hello! This is my place. cevans143 https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/519459642 See you online soon... ]]> 2020-04-21 07:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/fcarter24/emmha7u0umgu/wish/519459642