Have you ever thought about the forms that make our physical world? Take a walk with your IDEA+file in hand. Map out your course as you walk…what forms are making up the physical space?…when and why did you stop? Or go?…what forms or structures dictate the way you move through or experience space?…did walking under a tree provide you with relief from the sun?…did anything cause you to change your course?
For my form walk, I walked around the Woodland cemetery which is close to my apartment building. Many of the forms that I took notice of were in the shape of headstones, so many straight-edged, rectangular, short objects made of stone were of interest to me. There were some larger headstones and memorials as well, but mostly the small and repetitive headstones were what I focused on. Also, there were trees, bushes, and flowers here and there, but seemingly broke up and contrasted the repetitive nature of the man-made headstones. I stopped a few times to read descriptions of some of the headstones but wasn’t looking for anything in particular. The forms of the headstones actually made me not get as close as I would to something I wanted to pay attention to out of respect to what they stand for – you never want to step on another person’s grave. All in all, the stones were laid out in a straightforward manner that kind of dictated your course for you and made the walk more of a collective experience rather than an individual/specific object kind of experience.
Peder Harvey Design 