BA Arts, Design & Environment
Stage 1, Architecture
Karolina Mikolajczyk The Scavenger Game
Kentish Town Group
Evaluative Report
The Scavenger Hunt, as one of definitions says, is team game for everyone who is bored or looking for some entertainment. Group of people willing to play divides into smaller teams. They create list of tasks for other team and start to play. The background for the game is the city, town, or other challenging area.
We, as a students of Central Saint Martin’s College, as people from different countries, we were supposed to explore London and use it as a resource.
Having a little more time than one month, full of excitement and enthusiasm Kentish Town Group started research, first in our local library.
We tried to work as a whole team, without responsibility for particular object, everyone searched for the most information as possible and then we collected all work together.
Apart from galleries like Beardsmore Gallery or Flaxton Ptootch, club Forum in Art-Deco style building, churches, we found The City Farm.
With Basic information about area we visited Kentish Town and we found proofs of our research.
One journey wasn’t enough so then everyone was suppose to go there by it self one more time and discover something new, something interesting, something what could make the game more exciting.
Personally I went there on one of the sunny Sundays, when time goes slower, to observe also social area life. I found it easier to catch, to photograph. Walking around as a stranger, someone who doesn’t belong to the place, it was even easier to monitor area, social life and places where people of Kentish Town like spending their time the most. But it would be subjective to base my judgment only on one day observation. So we also explored the space during week days and we discovered more significant places.
The collection of leaflets, flyers, announcements, web-sites and raising ideas in our minds brought expanding list of tasks for the game.
It is quite hard to say how enjoyable was playing the Kentish Town Scavenger, specially from my point of view. The more time I spent there the less joy each visit was bringing.
However playing the other group’s game gave me comparison and more experience to judge myself. There is always that filling that I could do better. Anyway if I could change it I would possibly re-organized structure of tasks, make them more casual, random, more crazy and unpredictable. All questions according to some significant objects gave me impression of homework rather than entertaining game. Unusual objects found on our way were much more enjoyable, which I think this game is all about…joy.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
WEB-SITES :
http://www.londontown.com/LondonEvents/TheBuzzcocks/2ff58 editor: Soren Johansen 2007
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl&q=
http://www.thegreatscavengerhunt.com/scavenger_hunt_lists/The%20Great%20Scavenger%20Hunt%20List%2004-14-07.doc
http://cindex.camden.gov.uk/cgi/Search.cgi
About Scavenger Hunt
http://www.hud.gov/kids/scavhunt.html
About The Flaxton Ptootch Gallery
http://www.pbase.com/louloubelle/image/65643908
About Kentish Town history
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/StPancras/KentishTownHistory.html
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45239
About The City Farm in Kentish Town
http://www.aapi.co.uk/cityfarm/home.html
About The Forum Club
http://www.kentishtownforum.com
BOOKS
Kenneth Allison; London contemporary architecture, An explorers guide; Published in 2006, Publisher Architecture Press, London
A-Z; Publisher: Geographers A-Z Map Company LTD, Copyright of Geographers A-Z map Company
Community Advertising; Camden & Kentish Town Community; Published in London
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
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