As a student group of fourth year spatial students, we were selected to be a part of the design team to represent New Zealand in the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ).

 

Working alongside Massey University lecturers; Stuart Foster, Meg Rollandi and Sven Mehzoud, the project took form through processes of ideation, research, conceptual design, development design, 1:1 scale prototype as well as material exploration.

 

The exhibition title loosely translates to an open space of possibilities and potential, a space where performance may form, inhabit, emerge and begin.  Influenced by Māori and Pacific waka, the exhibition performed as a vehicle and platform for interaction, negotiation and display. A vehicle of transformation, moving and shifting both in form and in nature between audio-visual media and performance, a space of dialogue.

 

PQ aimed at honouring, empowering and celebrating the work of designers, artists and architects across the globe while inspiring and educating it’s audience.