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A Little Like Alice

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 15:38:39 +0000

A Little Like Alice

This is the story on how A Little Like Alice came to life!

A Little Like Alice

Imagined By:

The Great Darkness, Jasmine, aged 12 years, Brisbane State High School

The rabbit hole, Athena, aged 10 years, Woodridge State School

Designed

The Conceptual & Design Journey: Students at Brisbane South State Secondary College focused on concept development and design for external fabrication for their work, A Little Like Alice. A fully collaborative process, students started with a deep dive into the well, followed by creative writing tasks inspired and expanding on the Imagined Things in the well. The students then participated in group writing tasks, individual collage works and then created a collaborative collage by ripping up their individual works to create the Cityscape and tunnel network after visiting the SLQ gallery space. Attention was paid to the heights of children visiting the exhibition in the placement of tunnels and ratio of city to underground space.

Students also spent time developing their ideas for the projection component and all ideas were designed and captured before being sent out for fabrication.

Made

Made By: Rebul Packaging, Commissioned by State Library of Queensland

Projection designed by Sonny O’Brien and Joseph Burgess

Angre Cow

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:12:56 +0000

Angre Cow

This is the story of how the Angre Cow came to life!

Imagined

Original Well submission here!

This is a thing imagined by Samir, aged 8, on Wednesday April 28

The full name of this thing is: angre cow

It can be found in: he from amrica

It is known that: i was patting hes back and he ate me

The original drawing of angre cow:

A recording of angre cow can be found here:

samir.mp3

Designed

The Griffith QCA Southbank team chose Angre Cow as their Imagined Thing to bring to life!

Made

Beast X

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:00:51 +0000

Beast X

This is the story of how the Beast X came to life!

Imagined

Original Well submission here!

This is a thing imagined by Zenimoatel, aged 8, on Wednesday May 12

The full name of this thing is: Beast X

It can be found in: A mystery Island

It is known that: One night I was in bed and I had this weird dream So I named it up and the mystery beast was called Beast X then it was protecting me.

The original sculpture of Beast X:

A recording Beast X can be found here:

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Designed

The Design Journey: The process for QCA Design students was to do a solo exploration of the Imagined Things in the well, select a favourite and then create a design pitch and scale model to present to their peers. Pitches were then voted on and Beast X was selected as the Imagined thing to fabricate! Students then split into groups to design and fabricate in sections. This group was a little different with half of the cohort online and half on the ground. Students used digital design tools, such as SolidWorks, Sketch Up and AutoCAD to 3D model and design Beast X.

The Fabrication Journey: students worked independently to fabricate Beast X. A combination of fabrication methods were used including the beam method as well as hand cutting and assembly. There was lots of communication between the groups to ensure the scale and finish was consistent and that the pieces of Beast X would fit together on assembly, particularly with an Online cohort designing on behalf of the students on the ground.

Made

Griffith University’s QCA Design students - Gold Coast

Dragon and the Koi

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:06:44 +0000

Dragon and the Koi

Imagined By:

Thing, Eddison, aged 8 years, Woodridge State School

Shark komododragon, Eh Bu, aged 10 years, Woodridge State School

Mask god, Angelina, aged 7 years, Woodridge State School

Designed

Designed By:

Brisbane State High School Art Merit Enrichment Program students.

Made

Made By: Applied Creativity & Saturday Afternoon Open Lab Crew

Glitch Forest

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:07:55 +0000

Glitch Forest

This is the story of how the Glitch Forest came to life!

Imagined

Glitch Forest was inspired by three Imagined Things from The Well, Glitch, The Great Darkness and Gargor.

Glitch is a thing imagined by Lloyd, aged 12, on Thursday July 8

The full name of this thing is: Glitch

It can be found in: Abandoned game

It is known that: A character that is forgotten, from an old arcade machine, got abandoned and never touched again.

The Great Darkness is a thing imagined by Jasmine, aged 12 years, on Thursday July 8

The full name of this thing is: The Great Darkness

It can be found in: The Black Forests (the dark part)

It is known that: They came to be when a drought killed a lot of livestock and a farmer had one wish. He wished for his cattle to come back to life. Unfortunately, this meant that the skeletons came back to life. They moved to the forest when the farmer abandoned them, and fungi began to grow on them. Their skills differ, so do the colour of the fur and the types of fungi.

Gargor is a thing imagined by Oscar on Thursday July 8

The full name of this thing is: Gargor from a small Roman villa of Lomahatten

It can be found in: His species can be found in the mountains around the small Roman villa of Lomahatten which is surrounded with dozens of exotic plants inside of a ring of mountains (in my imagination)

It is known that: Plants live between his joints, moss on his back, ferns and other plants on top, calm and at bliss

Designed

Designed By:

QUT Creative Industries students

The Conceptual Journey: QUT Creative Industries students went through a fairly lengthy conceptual development process to arrive at the Glitch Forest. It was a fully collaborative process that encompassed no one persons ideas. It started with a deep dive into the well, followed by creative writing tasks inspired and expanding on the Imagined Things in the well. The students then participated in group writing tasks, individual and group visual research, sharing and experimentation. Mycelium was a recurring theme, as was the idea of a glitch, of a journey through and of a landscape that wasn't quite what it seemed. And so, The Glitch Forest was born.

The Design Journey: After identifying the world that they wanted to crate, students did a gallery site visit to take measurements to start converting the world to design and to look at how audience members might journey through the space. Students split into groups to work on: Big Momma, Baby Mic and the Smallies and design processes for each ranged from just experiment and make through to physical modelling and 3D modelling.

The Fabrication Journey: Students used three different fabrication methods for the mycelium as they brought Glitch Forest to life. Big Momma, being 4m tall, utilised the beam method and was then shaped with strapping and dressed with different cardboard and paper textures. Baby Mic was designed and cut using the CNC router and then joined together and papered and the Smallies were created using corrugated cardboard and straws. This was a diverse group that also wanted to experiment with projection, lighting and writing and as such, projection and LED strip lighting was incorporated into Big Momma and Baby Mic to allow them to communicate with each other and give a sense of the Glitch. A field guide was also written, illustrated, printed and bound by a couple of the students.

Made

No Name Rocu

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:07:27 +0000

No Name Rocu

This is the story of how the No Name Rocu came to life!

No Name Rocu

No Name Rocu was inspired by two Imagined Things from The Well, No Name and Rocu!

No name is a thing imagined by Andrew, aged 12 years, on Thursday July 8

The full name of this thing is: No name

It can be found in: Swedish wilderness

ROCU is a thing imagined by Bronte, aged 12 years

The full name of this thing is: ROCU

It can be found in: A logged forest

It is known that: The skeleton is all that is left of him after the loss of his forest. He is concerned by anger of his loss but is sad - regrets his actions. Rocu has the power to create but needs a strong reason for doing so.

Designed

Designed By:

Saturday Afternoon Open Lab Crew

Made

Made By:

Saturday Afternoon Open Lab Crew & Applied Creativity

One Eye

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:16:56 +0000

One Eye

This is the story of how the One Eye came to life!

Imagined

Original Well submission here!

This is a thing imagined by Mohammad, aged 11, on Tuesday May 11

The full name of this thing is: One Eye

It can be found in: Asia, Hong Kong

It is known that: One eye was in my imagination destroying a city destroying the buildings with a laser beam coming out of his eyes, missiles exploding from his leg

The original sculpture of One Eye:

A recording One Eye can be found here:

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Designed

The Design Journey: The process for QCA Design students was to do a solo exploration of the Imagined Things in the well, select a favourite and then create a design pitch and scale model to present to their peers. Pitches were then voted on and One Eye was selected as the Imagined thing to fabricate! Students then split into groups to design and fabricate in sections. Students used digital design tools, such as SolidWorks, Sketch Up and AutoCAD to 3D model and design One Eye and the Cityscape.

The Fabrication Journey: students worked independently to fabricate One Eye and the Cityscape. A combination of fabrication methods were used including the beam method as well as hand, CNC and Laser cutting and assembly. There was lots of communication between the groups to ensure the scale and finish was consistent and that the pieces of One Eye would fit together on assembly.

Made

Griffith University’s QCA Design students- Gold Coast

Wobbly Tooth Shark

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 12:10:08 +0000

Wobbly Tooth Shark

Wobbly Tooth Shark came about from the first Great & Grand Rumpus in 2018, it has undergone many iterations to become what it is in 2021!

Take a look through some of the documentation of Wobbly's journey from concept to fabrication.

Imagined

The Imagined Thing inspiration

Designed

Read through some the background of both the 2018 and 2021 iterations of the shark mouth,

https://wiki.slq.qld.gov.au/doku.php?id=engagement:the_great_and_grand_rumpus:children_families:idea_briefs_1

https://wiki.slq.qld.gov.au/doku.php?id=engagement:the_great_and_grand_rumpus:shark

Spirits of the Rumpus Wild

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:04:57 +0000

Spirits of the Rumpus Wild

This is how the Spirits of the Grumpus came to life!

Spirits of the Rumpus Wild are small paper based sculptures inspired by stories and items drawn from The Well. Focused on light, shadow and shadow play, the sculptures are internally illuminated and installed alongside the collaborative large sculptures as a field of floating, glowing sculptures in the gallery space. Each sculpture comprises of three parts, a lantern, lighting components and stand/base.

Over 200 lanterns where hand drawn and put together by primary school children.

The lanterns were then mounted and fitted with LED lighting components designed by Edge volunteers and staff, specifically using the lighting boards designed by Byron Crowe;

Addressable Scalable LED lighting Platform

Grumpus Lighting Components

Treasured Tomes

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 15:45:00 +0000

Treasured Tomes

During the making of the Great and Grand Rumpus, we ran workshops in traditional bookbinding and modern digital fabrication (laser cutting) to craft beautiful community designed books befitting the work of The Well.

The workshops focused on bookbinding using traditional methods and materials (hand sewing the pages, gluing up book-cloth covers, making endpapers, etc) and designing a cover suitable for laser cutting/engraving in free and open-source software (Inkscape).

Participants were inspired by the children's stories and whimsical imaginations and illustrations, which were compiled and added to the beautifully bound books on display during the Great and Grand Rumpus exhibition.

Check out the workshop documentation - Laser Cut Books