Interactive display

After making the workshop activity based on Arts for health, we started to think about creating a display that helped to attract participants as well as create an interactive engaging display.

We wanted to have boards standing for participants to stick up their answers and contribution to the activity. This is so we can create an exchange of ideas, and most importantly to start a conversation on Arts for health.

Below is a model that I made to help visualise our ideas.

We wanted to try out this model on a large scale. Best and cheapest material to work with is cardboard. We needed to think logistically about the structural layout to make sure that the display doesn’t fall over at the event- that would be so unprofessional.

I was a little nervous about the event and the low budget materials we were using. There wasn’t much dialogue between us and the event coordinators letting us know what they expect and the standard of work they are looking for- they didn’t even ask about previous experience. I was worried that we would turn up and they would be disappointed with what we had created. I have learnt from this experience to just have confidence and do the best with what is available.

We wanted to create a finished look and get rid of the cardboard look.
My ideas was to use white spray paint as an underlay- this way it will be much easier to paint and will require less layers.

We decided to go for a bright ‘happy’ colour to bring out the colours that we had chosen for the cards.
We went for yellow- this worked out really well as it was bright and attractive, spark curiosity for people to come over and check out our activity.