For my space + materiality final, I had to create a habitat which reflected movements of the body, combining two separate studies that we explored during the previous weeks. The habitat study was a study that we chose ourselves, and I chose to study and observe bees. The requirement of this study is that the animal / insect / etc. had to create it’s own habitat (i.e. a beaver, a bee). The simultaneous study was the study of movement. We took an everyday task, and then broke it down into understanding how the involvement of negative and positive space was between each individual movement that was made. Combing both studies, the final embodied a natural habitat that was reflecting beehives, and used in a way to mimic and recreate the movements and motions in the body. Each student’s connected one with the other, like a giant train, making it also part of the challenge of weaving into one another.
