A method for exploring the Burdett–Coutts, developed from (and continent on) my prior investigative process.
The brief is available to download at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gkZthEeiPWSx8rW6inNzYbXqhSCWDlYb/view?usp=sharing
Writing about global corporate entities, design studio Methaven (2010) speak of the “elusiveness of networked organizations” and the insufficiency of identity systems in representing them. Applying such thinking to the manner in which we conceive of a given site, neither static image nor indeed the semiotics of its own architecture can be said to truly capture it as experienced. This is particularly true in the case of monuments, whose cultural significance may shift in the public conscious over time.
In comparing the results of the above method both with one another and the physical site itself, light might be shed on each participant’s situated experience of the fountain. When gathered together the results will (hopefully) represent a counter-perspective on the fountain as an intangible networked space, that is merely and inadequately represented physically by the site itself. The likely chaotic and stylized nature of the resulting image database will, I’m sure, underline this further.
Metahaven. (2010, p.7-8) Uncorporate Identity. Edited by Metahaven. and M. Vishmidt. Baden: Lars Muller Publishers.