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Recommended age: 5-18 years
Place: Indoors
Time required: Depending on the needs. Can be used several times during a process.
Material/tools: camera, editing software, printer, tape and scissors.
Purpose: Visualise the place you are working on
Where in the process: To recall the site during the pre-study or to visualise ideas.
Sometimes you can’t work on the site you are developing, you might continue the work in a classroom for example, then it can be good to have a large photo of the site. The photo helps when talking about the site, reminds you of what you have discovered during the feasibility study or to visualise ideas on the site. Since a street is long and it is difficult to take a photo so that the photo corresponds to reality, we provide here a method to solve this problem.
You will need a camera, computer with editing software, printer, tape and scissors. Alternatives to photographing the site yourself are taking screenshots of Google Street View or bird’s eye views in Google Earth.
To create a long photo of a street, for example, walk along the street, or next to it, and take photos of the place as you go. Keep the camera at the same height and take too many photos rather than too few. The photos can then be cut and pasted together in an editing programme, such as InDesign or Illustrator, and placed over several pages. Then print and tape together. Alternatively, photos are printed directly, without editing, then cut, adjusted and taped together by hand. Put the long photo on the wall at the children’s eye level.
As well as acting as a reference of the place for other methods or discussion, the photo can be used to draw on or tape up sketched ideas – such as furnishing the street onto the paper.
The method can be used on its own but is intended as an aid in a longer process or together with other methods.
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