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We have designed a family of free standing partition screens to help create a soft boundary between the Screen Lounges and the surrounding public space. These partitions act as a kind of interior street sign system, directing traffic around the spaces. The woven partition screen or Navigation Partition Screen draws its form from the Micronesian navigators who wove their maps. These maps guided them to and connected them with their desired destinations. The Micronesians saw all knowledge as being like travelling "between parts of a matrix". This woven form also echoes the navigation interface developed by Jane Ellery on the Screen Lounge control screen. The Micronesian's need for precise directions to guide them in their journeys across vast oceans reflects a similar need for us today for guidance and navigational aids through the vast matrix of contemporary media now available. The woven Navigation Partition Screen has been created by one of AustraliaÕs foremost and celebrated weavers, Wendy Golden.

Credits

Design team: Michael Trudgeon, DavidPoulton Project architects
Engineering consultant: Anthony Kitchener
Contract administration: Crowd Productions
Visualisation and documentation: Glynis Teo
Industrial designer: Mario Loyo
Blisterpack project coordinator, interior designer: Veronica Saunders
Blisterpack project art director and photographer: Peter Clarke
Researcher, interior designer: James Lamb
Researcher, interior designer: Michelle Cox
Documentation architects: Live Load
Vision Engineer: Keven Poulton
Fiber optic systems consultant: Lionel J. Barden
Certifing engineer: Robin Bliem
Fiber artist: Wendy Golden
Model making: Loop 8

The client for the Screen Lounge project was the Australian Centre for the Moving Image at Federation Square, Melbourne Australia

The Hyperhouse research program formed the basis for the design and fabrication response by Crowd Productions and David Poulton architects. This program is conducted in conjunction with Anthony Kitchener from Cash Engineering Research and is ongoing.

Fabrication and product development team

Fabrication co-ordinator: David Poulton
Principal fabricator: Riva Fab
Fiberglass fabrication: Quality Fiberglass Products
Plastics Acylic moulding and form making: SkyTec
Inflatable engineering and form finding: Tensys Engineers
Inflatable fabrication: Bedggood Canvas
Inflatable fabric supplier: Rob Harvey
Mould making: Mothers Art
Upholstery fabrication: Eliza Upholstery
Vinyl surfacing: Better Floors
Fibre optic systems: Fibre Light Systems
Electronic systems: Rexel Australia
Surface finishing : Exact Craft
Monitor screen hardware: Ground Floor Marketing
Fabrication: Damien Salmon
Fabrication: Lucien Stals
Fabrication: Dominic Lowe
Fabrication: Alexander Saunders

The media platform architecture for the ACMI Screen Lounge progect was designed and installed by PIVoD Technologies.

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