Treoir | Design Brief

Design an interface between the body and Galway’s weather. The design is transportable, connected to the body.

The design will

• re-imagine the relationship between the body and weather in Galway

and/or

• change our behaviour in the wind, the rain and the dark

and/or

• challenge our attitudes and behaviour towards climate change and water management

and/or

• transform the everyday weather into performance

Questions to consider about your design:

• How does it affect my decision making around “it’s raining/windy/dark, will I go out or not?”
• Does it interact with the rain or wind?
• Does it create community?
• Does it use the wind and rain and dark to play?
• Do we have to protect ourselves from the elements?
• What if, instead of repelling and deflecting rain and wind, it captured, collected and transformed them?
• What is a weather-interface for moving around in the rain or wind like?
• What is a weather-interface for hanging out in the rain or wind like?
• What is a weather-interface for one or more bodies like?
• An mbaineann sé úsáid as Gaeilge, nó a tharraingíonn sé áird ar Ghaeilge?

Is it

• Playful?
• Sociable?
• Beautiful?
• Funny?
• Innovative?
• Sustainable?
• Theatrical?

Interdisciplinary collaborations and experimentation are welcome, as are uses of wearable technology or traditional crafts. There are no design or fabrication limitations or stipulations.