Playable City Brunswick: Tree Weaver - 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 second presentation for my individual project: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13dN2PKQvZpQT6BaVFd4kqQzjZg-rkNZc/view?usp=sharing

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Tree Weaver (tentative title) is an installation as part of the Playable City Brunswick project. There are two parts to Tree Weaver:

• Heartree - an interactive, touch-based installation where players have to physically touch the tree trunk (like the player is feeling its heartbeat) and hanging threads to play soundscapes of Brunswick's natural history and stories of the First People's connection to the land. What if every tree had a story to tell?
• Weaving Brunswick - a purely analog physical activity where players have to find and collect three nature objects from the grounds of the campus, and weave it into a communal tapestry.

Tree Weaver will be located at RMIT Brunswick Campus, the start of the walking trail of Playable City Brunswick in the Weaving section.

There are various reasons for this. Firstly, the campus itself offered a much more quiet, contemplative experience with its abundance of trees, greenery and natural spaces. My impressions of the site was at dusk, when the environment was filled with birdsong as the birds returned home to the trees. Secondly, Brunswick campus already has strong ties with the fashion and textiles industry, with an internationally renowned fashion program for students. Thirdly, sewing and textiles plays a huge part in Brunswick's history as one of the chief manufacturing suburbs of the state.