Playable City Brunswick: A Maker's Trail - Pitch (Studio 3 - Week 4)

By Helen Kwok

I presented two presentations to the City of Moreland Council, Kiri Delly (RMIT representative for the Brunswick Design District) and Dr. Troy Innocent on 23 March 2020 - the overarching theme of the project for the whole group, and my own individual project.

This is the first presentation for the overarching theme: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D-gokPTVib1rwEZNGIU0N80IuqxUhQH8/view?usp=sharing

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A Maker's Trail (tentative title) is the name of the walking trail project the Playable City Brunswick team will be working on this semester. The aim of the project is to reconnect the people of Brunswick to the lived experience of the suburb through urban play. By transforming the urban environment of sites along Dawson St, Saxon St and Sydney Rd, we hope to showcase the lived experience of Brunswick - its history, its land, its culture - through play. I conducted field research via site surveys, interview with locals and local history research in the Brunswick Library and Fusion articles published by the Brunswick Local History Group.

The overarching theme of the project is about "making". The act of making is a persistent theme throughout the history of Brunswick: from the blue collar workers in manufacturing and industries back in the day, to the creative practitioners utilising the makerspaces of Brunswick today.

We have split the trail into three main sections, each section a specific type of "making": Weaving, Building and Music-Making. The trail ends with a Celebrating section at the end of the trail. Our individual projects will fit into these sections of the trail - with key works at each site.