safari [2019/20] is an experiment in networked drawing.

a group of over 60 students were asked to draw simultaneously on a single 'canvas'. every person had their own set of 'brushes'. a series of 'games' were performed, following different rule-sets, resulting in various 3 dimensional compositions [check the video link].

rules:

0:00 draw an elephant!

2:00 draw an aeroplane!

5:52 draw villa savoye!

9:30 expand the territory!

10:40 make yourself a house connected with two neighbors! 12:45 cross to the other side!

each game additionally had time limitation [usually about 2 minutes] as well as resources limitation... but sometimes the players could steal from eachother...

NO FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS WERE PROVIDED, so what you can see are the results of negotiation, playfullness and imagination of a group of people without any imposed hierarchy.

safari is a step in a direction of embracing the potential of collective decisionmaking in design.

team:

Valerie Messini, Damjan Minovski, Dominik Strzelec, Dominic Schwab

performed at the University of Innsbruck, Studio 3.

Big thank you to Katrin Aste for your generosity and imagination.