Hi, I'm Jordan; & my intervention was to obscure the windows in the Chatham stairwells in order to make people stop & take notice of their surroundings when in the building.
Chatham has two courtyards filled with trees & greenery, but sadly they go unnoticed because they are hidden by stairs, access corridors or are obscured by blinds in many places. There is no reason why the spaces should be hidden away, & so the intervention invites people to rediscover these courtyards through obscuring the windows & only allowing views out through small portholes. When they take the time to look out at their surroundings they will hopefully view them in a different light; perhaps they will appreciate the views more, notice things they perhaps would not have seen before, or just indulge their curiosity. Ideally the intervention will make users engage with the building in a way they hadn't before.
The intervention was composed of simple A4 sheets, sellotape, lots of blutack and a fair few spelling mistakes (nobody's perfect after all.)
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