[CATS: The Workshop!] Day Two

...so Dina and Yazan brought ice cream today to make it up for coming late, despite the fact that it tasted bad, ice-cream should'v been there after the heated weather and much more heated dialog we had today as the second day of the workshop folded-

Today's session aimed to raise problems and start envisioning design solutions, these problems were identified as a product of our previous in-depth analysis of cats!
setting up a pre-determined scenario didn't work since cats occupied a hostile context where primary concerns such as security, food supply and transition were not met!

Hundreds of ideas flooded, each worthy of a project on its own but yet the idea was learning how to bridge various design languages together in order to produce a coherent vision. By the end of today's session I think we're getting there and we're ready for 'visualizing' these ideas at a studio session tomorrow!

To tidy up our ideas we split into four focus groups,

Group A+B_ Transition + Context + Logistics
(Rula, Toleen, Ahmad, Ali)
This group should generate ideas concerning methods of transition which reduces security threats, design products and methods of obtaining and containing food, maintaining shelter and the city's infrastructure

Group C_ Spatial Design
(Dina, Rawan, Yazan, Khaled)
Spatial and physical intervention, the city's core space + activity to be design and connected with infrastructure and compliments an overall scenario primary to cats

Group D_ Visual Culture + Narrative
(Dana, Hadi, Mike, Ahmad)
Building up a continuity in the cat community's narrative, complimenting other layers with visual dimension, orientation elements, signage, propaganda and awareness campaigns

The ideas produced during the studio at Makan will be hung on boards, and then some of these ideas would be selected to what can produce a consistent scenario
and later on the groups can work again together collaboratively to compliment each other's interventions

The discussions today were as intense as the passionate vibe sensed throughout the workshop- and as Rula said, it brought back the feeling of loving design!
Whatever is happening there at the workshop is beautiful, progressive and unprecedented, looking forward to tomorrow's session!