While almost all the fliers that student groups post at NYU Poly have to follow certain guidelines and can only be posted at specific locations throughout the campus.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Color them Freedom
Almost every hallway at Pratt is either an exhibition space, or a bulletin board. Walking from one studio to another studio is so inspiring and refreshing because people have the freedom to express themselves even of it involves just pinning a small box to the walls!
While almost all the fliers that student groups post at NYU Poly have to follow certain guidelines and can only be posted at specific locations throughout the campus.
While almost all the fliers that student groups post at NYU Poly have to follow certain guidelines and can only be posted at specific locations throughout the campus.
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Great point Sana and nice pictures.
ReplyDeleteI see two things here: a sense of liveliness because the work of students are up on the walls. Yes, art and design projects might be more "attractive", but I could imagine posters with scientific images, 3D models, etc. at NYU-Poly. There are some window cases displaying work I believe but they don't really seem alive...
Also we could imagine having artists and designers work related to science and engineering. They are a lot of very interesting and inspiring work.
The second part of your post is about flyers related to students' activity and it is true that seeing them posted all around the campus "freely" gives a sense of energy, activity and freedom. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission is the motto of many innovative companies! Beyond the messiness and the sense of freedom, it also gives you a sense of an inhabited, lively space. This is at Pratt but there are plenty of university where you can see these flyers and boards.
I think its really funny professor that Poly hosts all these competition for people to portray what they think of the i2e concept by doing an art piece and you wouldn't see the results of these competitions anywhere around the campus.
DeleteBut when Starbucks had the old layout they had this art piece that was designed by a BMS Poly student of a very complicated molecular subject and it was captured beautifully.
and I completely agree!
Did you know that in Carnegie Mellon, you don't need permission to hand out fliers? The madness, I tell you! Just kidding, it actually removes a barrier to building community.
ReplyDeleteYeah that's what I thought :) Thanks Ashwin
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