Wayfinding
A photography installation at The Barbican, London
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Wayfinding ↗️
The term ‘wayfinding’ is used in architecture to refer to the experience of choosing a path within a built environment. The Barbican is a notoriously difficult building for finding your way around. Structures and details in and around the building can be interpreted and stored by memory but distances, locations and time may be remembered differently than they appear...
‘Wayfinding’ is a series of photographs showing details and points of interest found on an orientation trip around the Barbican. The work consists of 40 photographs, with 4 of the photographs made into posters with sections cut out as badges for people to take a part of the Barbican away with them on their own explorations of the space (whether intentional or not...).
The photographs are displayed alongside a selection of 35mm slides from the Barbcian Archive that show the original graphical ‘way finding’ symbols designed for the Barbican, as well as photographs of the Centre when it first opened in 1982.
They were displayed alongside a selection of graphical way-finding signs and other details of the building taken from 35mm slides from the Barbican Archive, this installation was displayed as part of the Barbican: ‘Forget Me Not - Reassembling the Barbican Archives’ exhibition.
The term ‘wayfinding’ is used in architecture to refer to the experience of choosing a path within a built environment. The Barbican is a notoriously difficult building for finding your way around. Structures and details in and around the building can be interpreted and stored by memory but distances, locations and time may be remembered differently than they appear...
‘Wayfinding’ is a series of photographs showing details and points of interest found on an orientation trip around the Barbican. The work consists of 40 photographs, with 4 of the photographs made into posters with sections cut out as badges for people to take a part of the Barbican away with them on their own explorations of the space (whether intentional or not...).
The photographs are displayed alongside a selection of 35mm slides from the Barbcian Archive that show the original graphical ‘way finding’ symbols designed for the Barbican, as well as photographs of the Centre when it first opened in 1982.
They were displayed alongside a selection of graphical way-finding signs and other details of the building taken from 35mm slides from the Barbican Archive, this installation was displayed as part of the Barbican: ‘Forget Me Not - Reassembling the Barbican Archives’ exhibition.
