🡦 THE TALKING WALL

SOLO EXHIBITION
2021

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A place making project installation in collaboration with Collingwood Neighbourhood House and P&G not-for-profit initiative. A fruitful project that provided the local members from the housing estate an opportunity to reconnect and regain communication with the wider Collingwood community in playful and engaging ways during Melbourne’s intense lockdowns. 

The Talking Wall transforms the notion of what a wall represents; not as a barrier but as a signifier for new modes of communication. Initially conceived as a social distancing wall. The 1.5m x 1.5m modules mimic the tin-can telephone. Over 20 interviews were conducted with social housing tenants and incorporated into the installation creating an architectural cacophony with recycled paper tubes acting as natural sound amplifiers. The collaboration with P&G exhibitions paper tubes, a not-for-profit organisation that values employment for refugees and those under-served in the community, created a holistic design process that inspired sustainable relationships through collaboration and inspiration.