Design Ideas

As designers, we intend to oversee the (two) practical projects we are planning to undertake with our two chosen schools; Kingswood and Nyaluza.
These projects are to be a papermaking and printing workshop, and a dustbin painting session.
The papermaking process will centre on the notion of recycling, using recycled paper. This paper will then be printed on using potato stamping as well as paint and ink. The dustbin painting session will focus on the anti-littering campaign, and will use images and phrases that address littering in a creative and innovative way.

In relation to the papermaking project, the ultimate objective is to produce pieces of recycled paper that the scholars can creatively express what they've learnt throughout the entire multimedia engagement process. In this way, the actual paper making would be done in the first session, and the printing done in the last so as to give time to reflect.

These reflections will then be pegged onto a wire tree as 'leaves' and for the centre-piece of our exhibition. The idea is that after our exhibition, the tree can be moved to different schools who perhaps could not make it to the official exhibition.

We can also layout wall newspapers containing writing and photojourn content that documents this process and will accompany the tree.

Design team: Zethu Mtshemla and Layla Leiman