Teams Workshop 4

Group Workshops - Time Capsule

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Deashe's response

Shannon's response

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Deashe's response

For this task we were told to go outside and find something that we would want to put in a time capsule, or was itself a time capsule to us. This was my response:

I walked around my village looking for something that I would want to put in a time capsule, or something that itself was a time capsule. It was only once I returned home that I noticed these two chairs in my back garden. The yellow stool is something that I remember from my childhood, it is linked to memories spanning many years and family members, whereas the metal chair holds no such importance as it is newer as was bought for necessity.

I found the contrast between the two items interesting as it placed in focus the old vs the new, the playful vs the pragmatic. I also saw a connection between the two in the way that nature had taken them over. The metal chair was overcome by weeds, whilst the yellow plastic of the other chair was obscured and dulled by weathering encountered by years of the outside. There seemed to be a kind of kinship, of comfortable resignation of fate between the two chairs from two different eras, connected by their abandonment to the elements.

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Shannon's response

Tamzin presented a time capsule workshop over teams instructing us to find materials and create a time capsule. To me a time capsule means to preserve something memorable, concealing it keeping it safe so you can look back at it in years to come and share it with other generations. Here is my response:

My nan sadly passed away when I was 2 years old but she held on to a lot of sentimental things over the 2 years she had with me, from scans to a newspaper from the day I was born and cakes she had baked. These are all belongings that have been preserved for 18 years, things that I still cherish and hold now and will continue to do so. This is what I think a time capsule should consist of.