What do you do when you reach the end of your thoughts? When all of your ideas have been drained from you, creating an emptiness of “ehhhh”?
When we started Site Specific a couple of months back. All five of us sat down, our brains teaming with possible ideas. We played with the idea of an island, where passers by could sit and talk to us about their thoughts. Other ideas included using pervasive media, such as sound via bananas, and of course QR codes. After choosing QR codes we came up with our final idea and searched for a space where we could show it.
The Pheonix Health Shop was perfect and we quickly got onto the phone to them. After a week of juggling phone calls, we were finally told by the council that we would be unable to use that space. We searched for other possible spaces up the high street, however they were all slightly out of the public eye. The only other possible space was Marks and Spencer’s brick wall.
After asking them via letter if we could use their space and power, they said no. We were back to square one. No wall meant no performance space.
After the ‘no’ from the council and Marks and Spencer, our ideas drained from us, creating the emptiness of “ehhhh”.
The question that now stands is this: Is there another level that we can look at? Another way around this that we can use our QR codes? Or another place that we can place them?
The only other space that we can think of is the area outside the doughnut stand, which is owned by Lincoln big. We could use this space by creating our own wall for our QR codes. We are currently thinking of other ways that we can explore the QR codes.