Team 4 Docklands Development Disorder

As a way of engaging with the local community, we started to think again about the issues of Docklands and how it might be perceived by the local community near our site. We had not seen many people wandering around that area during the day yesterday, who were connected with the local establishments. We need to make more observations, especially at night-time. Who and what happens near our site? Do people congregate at the Woolshed Pub? What are the conditions at site? What do they want to happen at Docklands?

As a first start, the team provided one-word impressions of the Docklands.
- barren
- empty
- alienating
- concrete
- cold
- tension
- extreme
- is developing
- fatiguing distances
- windswept
- manmade
- gibber plain
- open to nothing
The wind appeared today - cold and strong, as people had forewarned.

The next step is to talk to locals. We didn't just want to rock up empty handed, so we have created a flyer to give to people which invites them to visit our site for a consultation.

This consultation is part of our concept for the site which has evolved into one based on a diagnosis-and-treatment system. People at Docklands are suffering from a range of ailments, which we hope to treat and cure with our Healing Apparatus. These ailments fall under the general condition of Docklands Development Disorder. Our treatments or curatives aim to provide a range of social, emotional, physiological and spatial outcomes for greater well-being in the Docklands. The healing system is composed of transformative organs, which diagnose the condition from the symptoms and dispense the treatment. Implantation occurs in a migratory way, from site to persons to community.

Some rough sketches:
The Healing Apparatus system
Ailments
Treatments
This concept picks up on the recurring concerns of the team around therapy, treatment, self-help, exchange. It also provides a system for activating the site and the built structures we are adding. But just as significantly, the system is a means of engaging the locals, conducting community consultation and research, through playful interactions. We can collect data on community frustrations, desires and satisfactions through this apparatus. The system can be extended into the digital realm by embedding sensors and other data collection instruments into the physical structure.