444 7th Ave, Sculpture

3iii has designed a sculpture to be suspended in our latest interior design project for Dream Properties. 

Process:

The form was sculpted from drywall tape. There were about 20 different versions before the final form was chosen.

The form was then modeled in 3D with a software program called Rihno.

To confirm the sculpture size, the form was placed in a 3iii architectural rendering of the interior space. The size of the sculpture will be 4 mt X 2.5 mt X 2.5 mt.

The sculpture is being built by F&D Scene Changes here in Calgary. 3 mock-ups were created so the actual material could be chosen. Here is a small section of the sculpture.... the squares are laser cut from the metal sheet and then formed by hand.

The form will then be powder coated.... the colour has yet to be chosen.  :-)

Happy Easter!

'A 3iii moment', Spring campaign for Scotia Centre.... :-)

3iii marketing and advertising:

 

This campaign is to celebrate those 'special' Scotia Centre moments. We are encouraging engagement, from the end-users and the retailers. 

Here are a few images from the campaign showcasing those Scotia Centre moments.

Here are some of the tweets we have had from shoppers... :-)

We will be running various contest and some fantastic events throughout the year. Visit the Scotia Centre website, join us on Instagram, twitter and Facebook. 

For marketing and advertising (and yes photography & film) services contact; 3iii inc....   :-)   

'Understanding relationships', helps us create experiential environments.

Teaching and Learning Methods

This graphic shows the self-navigational or guided navigational process developed by John Seely Brown (2000). and incorporates the Model of Learning developed by Danish psychologist Knud Illeris developed in 1995 (Richardson, 2002). Illeris says people learn in four different ways: studying, receiving instruction (teaching), working on projects and doing exercises.

Along with the learning processes, we need to study and understand many relationships between, student and teacher, teaching and learning methods, the mediate and non-mediate environments, our tools (low and high technology).  

At times self-navigation can be challenging, especially for a young person. The word 'homework', is one that always seems to up everyone's stress. At home always seeing my daughter immersed in a computer, made me ask the question, 'is this a good thing'?  Not knowing what she is working on, the challenges she may be having (if any), left me always guessing.... how can I help, or do I need to. Changing the relationship we both have with homework was something I felt would be a good one. The words teamwork, openness, fun, flexible, and many more kept coming to mind.  Removing the concept of 'boundaries' seemed to be a good one. 

Making low technology a priority 

The challenge my daughter gave me, was to provide her with a borderless platform where she would want to loose the laptop and it's pressures, allow her to explore, play, as well as study at the same time.

Turning the surface of the largest wall in her bedroom into a writable one was our answer to the platform challenge. Draw, do homework, celebrate, discuss, it all started to happen in her space (her place of true comfort). This very simple step changed when and how we tackled not only homework but many other things. We found looking at the relationships between homework and the learning process, the mediate and non-mediate environments and low and high technology at basic levels transformed her bedroom into many rooms. This was her experiential environment. 

 ps We still need low technology..... :-)