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This project was all based around the positive effects of Storytelling, it focused on storytelling as therapy, learning, and a means of creative expression, and as a way of creating positive social change. It was a series of objects exploring storytelling and recording, and finally a pavilion as a place to tell stories.
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The Story Amulet
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The Object is designed as a simple puzzle, each piece can only be moved one at a time.
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The inside of the amulet has a story engraved on it, as a little insight into another person's life.
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The Text on this piece reads:
As a child aged nine I'd been playing on the beach unaware that the tide had flowed in behind and cut me off from the mainland. Being a non swimmer I panicked and stripping down to my underpants, holding clothes and shoes above my head,in great fear I rushed into the rapid current and naturally was carried away. Thinking I was about to drown imagine my unbelievable joy when my foot touched sand beneath my feet. I'd lost all my clothed but I was safe
I'm now 82 and for the last 50 years I've known that just as God gave life in the begining He alone will end it, but until then I will live until He calls me home.
As a child aged nine I'd been playing on the beach unaware that the tide had flowed in behind and cut me off from the mainland. Being a non swimmer I panicked and stripping down to my underpants, holding clothes and shoes above my head,in great fear I rushed into the rapid current and naturally was carried away. Thinking I was about to drown imagine my unbelievable joy when my foot touched sand beneath my feet. I'd lost all my clothed but I was safe
I'm now 82 and for the last 50 years I've known that just as God gave life in the begining He alone will end it, but until then I will live until He calls me home.
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The Wordlight
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The Lantern works as a message in a bottle. The light is sound responsive to record the flicker of the storytellers voice.
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The Shadow Puppet Theatre.
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Made from solid bamboo, the box folds out to become a shadow puppet theatre.
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The Storytelling Tent
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The pavilion is designed to defy your expectations, with the interior a different shape to the exterior. Paper banners suspended from the roof allow the visitors to record their stories in the tent. A light that is reminiscent of a camp fire where people sit around to tell stories
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Design development.