In Our Classroom
Brief
Our earliest spatial awareness is often shaped by our routine exposure to schools and the interior architecture of the classrooms. We grow accustomed to familiar vantage points, for instance, looking out of the same window. School buildings, in their most concrete spatial form, also serve as a historical time capsule of the prevailing architectural language of the era in which they were built.
While centring Lala Rukh’s 1987 screen printing manual In Our Own Backyard, this workshop transformed a classroom into a block printing space. Through the form of task sheets and a set of prompts, participants were encouraged to use the medium to print their individual memories of school while considering architectural elements within the setting of the Khalid Bin Mohamed School.
Outcome
Each participant filled a task sheet with a set of block prints as a reaction to the given prompts, and were tasked to collectively print on fabric, thus contributing to a shared visual narrative.
