A range of photographs documenting the sites with their newly fitted blue plaques.
Madalena Ciccone, Emily Walsh and I mapped out our Chichester. We mapped out places that held our own memories.
Above is our video guide.
Please feel free to come on our tour, all you have to do is view this video and start off at The University of Chichester.
London's Blue Plaque Scheme was founded in 1866.
The blue plaques are normally permanent signs installed in public places serving as a historical marker, however, ours intended to be different.
Our intention was to take a select audience on a journey with us without being there.
We filmed our journey.
Even if the sign was absent the audience were aware of the exact place it should have been and what it would have said.
Come On Our Tour In Chichester.
Colloborating with Madalena Ciccone and Emily Walsh.
Madalena, Emily and I decided to inherit the Blue Plaque scheme.
We decided to transfer the scheme that is most popularly known in London as an
English Heritage agenda to Chichester looking at our own relationships with locations.
So we wandered through Chichester with a singular mechanism in play.
A coin. We used a coin as a mechanism for our direction.
We were influenced by Larnie Fox's 'Dicewalk' which can be found here.
Below is the page you should be directed to from the above link.
For the above exercise you will need a dice and a popsickle stick.
However for our exercise all you will need is a coin.
Together we created a new mechanism using the rules of the Dicewalk and simplifying them.
We used this degeneration coin process to guide us through Chichester.
We all spoke of memories as we were led down East Street through the High Street.
We passed some maps on our way and collected them.
The map to the left happens to be one of them.
We discussed memories and events of importance that sprung to mind.
We wrote them down as we went along, as well as marking them out on a newly collected map.
An audio guide came into mind.
3 different trails came into mind.
However, we thought, what better way to describe the way than to show it? So we created a video guide.
We photographed all of the plaques, installed and included them within the video guide itself.
We thought it would be nice to differentiate each plaque through the documentation to illustrate the 3 separate trails.
The 3 separate journeys and memories within Chichester.
On the day of installing the plaques we all wore a different colour. We used colour coordination.
I was green.
My pins were green.
My top was green.
The tape that is folded over my pictures is green.
We used the colours:
Red,
Yellow,
Green.
The Coin Walk
Left or Right?
If you come to a junction, an intersection, a choice of paths, you flip the coin.
Heads is right.
Tails is left.
If there are 2 paths, then that's simple:
If your coin lands heads up, you follow the right path.
If your coin lands tails up, you follow the left path.
If there are more than 2 paths then we work by rule of elimination.
So we start with the path closest to you.
Let's say the path closest to you is on your left.
So all the other paths are to the right of this path.
Flip the coin.
If it's Tails then you take the left path and that's it.
If it's Heads then you flip between the next two paths to your right
and the left path is no longer on option.
Flip the coin.
Tails means you take the path on your left
and Heads means you either take the path on your right,
or decide between the next two paths.
A simple set of rules.
A quick and easy tool anyone can use on the go without any preparation.