Group 30 POSSIBILITY MACHINE (Posted 23 May 2025 11:21) – MSA LIVE 25

Group 30 / POSSIBILITY MACHINE

Shivsen P

BA Students: From Concept to Construction: Shelter, Stability, Surface

After presenting their proposals to the client last Thursday, our brilliant BA students swiftly transitioned into the next stage of the project, design resolution and build prep for The Possibility Machine. With energy, imagination, and a lot of hands-on hustle, they’ve begun gathering materials, planning their interventions, and gearing up to bring their ideas to life on site.

Working in three focused groups, Shelter, Stability, and Surface, each team responded to the client’s evolving brief with care, creativity, and collaboration:

🌀 Shelter – Led by Maddie (with some hands-on support from Taoran), this group developed a beautifully holistic fabric shelter that fits seamlessly onto the existing trolley frame. Meeting the client’s needs for shade and playful interaction, Maddie sourced recycled textiles through some ingenious Lowry building “dumpster diving,” turning fabric scraps into a controllable mess-making canopy.

⚖️ Stability – Irmak and Elena formed the grounding force of the build, designing and prototyping wire footings to stabilise the machine in unpredictable outdoor settings. Their design responds directly to the mobility and safety challenges of the site, providing much-needed anchoring.

🖍️ Surface – Sana, Regine, and Alyssa reimagined The Possibility Machine’s creative core: its surfaces. Using repurposed timber and incorporating fragments of Joseph’s collaborative artwork from the previous iteration, they developed a series of playful, squiggly workspaces perfect for mark-making and engagement.

Throughout the process, the students have worked not only with the client but with one another, adapting designs to ensure coherence across groups and contributing to a shared vision (their scale model is testament to this!) With guidance and support from Sofia, Shiv, and Hannah, they've navigated everything from sourcing to problem-solving with curiosity and dedication.

Tomorrow, the real-world testing begins. But already, their thoughtful, initiative-driven work shows how design can respond to community, context, and collaboration in powerful ways.

Stay tuned as The Possibility Machine comes to life!

Posted 23 May 2025 11:21

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