A weekend creative course that will have you designing and building a prototype of upcycled temporary structures with a focus on placemaking.
What is placemaking? It’s about community initiatives to make public spaces better physically, socially and culturally for everyone. Drawing on Bhav’s background in product design, creative production and events, participants will go through a physical design process, turning something from your imagination into a real prototype for yourself or a community project.
Full of tips and tricks from Bhav’s 12 years of professional and community experience making installations, this course will cover creative and design processes, conscious sourcing strategies, and how to work creatively with salvaged materials such as pallets and building prototypes. Participants will respond to the creative brief what and who are we making for?, before moving onto the physical output.
The aim of this course isn’t to have a complete, finished object but to learn skills and design processes that can be applied to your future creating endeavours. This will make ambitious projects less daunting, which can often be a barrier to placemaking.
If you’re interested in placemaking or going through a product design process to work on your own ideas, this course will fuel your imagination and help you take action!
This class is made possible through support from Creative New Zealand. Thanks CNZ!
When
10am-5pm Saturday & Sunday, August 7 & 8
Cost
$149
See our series of Creative New Zealand supported classes here.
About Bhavesh
Bhav is a designer and a people person. A product designer by trade and creative explorer at heart his endeavours have led him to apply himself across a broad range of projects and initiatives.
Co-founder of the creative agency The Open Fort and creative community ScribbleAKL, Bhav has hosted numerous community meet-ups, designed and built interactive installations, co-created pop-up mini golf courses from waste, facilitated creativity workshops and more.
Bhav also enjoys taking close-up photos of the world around us to capture the small, unnoticed details and his favourite double-scoop ice cream combo is goody-goody gum drop and lime swirl.
