Photographs

Some more photos of the cardboard city and I have been playing around with some on photoshop to see what they might look like if placed in Wellington.

Lets Play City Fly Over

From Cardboard to City

Sounds

There is a lot more to cities than buildings, transport, open spaces, people and sounds. We don't often just stand in a city a listen to the sounds but you should try it and see what you can hear. There are some great websites where you can explore the world from sounds people have recorded Freesound and Radio Aporee are two examples. Musician and artist David Byrne used some sounds recorded in London for a short piece of music you can watch the video here.
I have only lived in Wellington for a couple of months but already I have heard more bird song than 10 years were I last lived, so in the city there is not only noise from cars, coffee machines buses etc. there are also natural sounds such as bird song, waves and wind.
The video below is a short bit about a project by artist Nina Katchadourian, who uses bird sounds in an interesting way.

A Better Wellington

A Better Wellington is a website were you can send in your ideas for improving Wellington. It has been set up by Grant Robertson, who is the MP for Wellington Central. I contacted him about Lets Play City and how those attending the workshops would be coming up with creative and imaginative ideas for a better Wellington. So Mr Robertson is going to come along, probably on the morning of the 13 April, around 10.00am. So hopefully by then we will have some great ideas, I can't promise that he can get them built, but a chocolate fountain in Civic Square is surely a vote winner?

City Gallery 'The Obstinate Object'

I was looking around the City Gallery in Wellington and came across some of Yuk King Tan's new work. It incorporates both a city, in this case Hong Kong and cardboard. So if you are coming along to Lets Play City at the Carnival of Creativeness, you can pop in to the City Gallery to her work, it is in the cinema area. There is also a another piece of work upstairs made out of cardboard, I am not sure if it is by Yuk King Tan or someone else, but have a look. Below is a short interview with Yuk King Tan and there is a short clip in it of her work 'Scavenger'.

Lets Play City

Lets Play City is part of Capital E’s Carnival of Creativeness a two-week extravaganza of creating for young people. It starts on the 10 April and runs through to Saturday the 21 April, from 10.00 am - 4.00 pm but closed on Sundays.
Using only cardboard and a large dollop of imagination children taking part will build a city, which will express their ideas of what a city can be.

This blog will show examples of the work produced over the two weeks and a place to get some ideas and starting points.