{"id":1402,"date":"2021-05-07T20:50:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nayaricastillo.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=1402"},"modified":"2021-05-07T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T21:00:06","slug":"1402","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"http:\/\/www.nayaricastillo.com\/de\/portfolio\/1402\/","title":{"rendered":"Kajute (Sleep-cabin) in the Aquatopia Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Collaboration \u2014 Public Art, TU Graz \u2014 Kinderb\u00fcro<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participatory work in public space<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aquatopia was a public space intervention in the form of an interactive submarine structure for children, aimed at raising awareness around global water issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight artists from Graz and abroad were invited by a curator each to develop rooms within the vessel. In team work with the Finnish artist Tuuli Kunden-Uusimaki I developed the Kajute, or sleeping cabin. The idea was to create seating or lying comfortable and secure structures where visitors, especially children, were invited to dream of\/about water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kajute was then a portal to the magical content of the sub water world, a window to the unknown. Seven stories were created, each taking a mythical and bizarre water creatures as a theme. These were silk-screen printed and illustrated on Perspex discs hung on tubing from the ceiling. A cushioned marine environment was created within the space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to generate the stories, I toured around the country making workshop on story-telling and water awareness. The resulting products where used as inspiration for the stories and as developmental research for the construction of a safe environment for kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n