Room 204: Visual Traces of Groups at Work                                          h a n n a h    b u r r





       Project Description:
This semester-long, cumulative, site specific installation took place at Babson College from September '05 to January '06.

With the help of project curator Danielle Krcmar, I worked with a group of MBA students from the course 'Product Design and Development,' who met weekly as part of the design process toward the development of a marketable product. This group agreed to be the subject my project by allowing me to film their weekly meetings. At intervals between meetings, I watched the film and noted repeating events relating to movement, behavior, incident and interaction, ad minutium. I marked the room itself each week, leaving abstract, representative marks of everything I'd noted. The chairs, table, ceiling, walls and floor are among the surfaces on which trace interpretations of events accumulated. Students not involved in the project used the room to study and meet; over the course of the project, as the meetings progressed, these marks were less easy to overlook. At the close of the project, all accumulated traces of collective exchange were present in the room, and the group had just about concluded their project.

All of the images below are details of the piece.

 
    Room 204 - Maple Table Top Installed
 


    Preliminary Meeting
 


    First Embedded Wax Marks after Meeting One
 


    Sewn Marks on a chair back
 


    Ceiling marks
 


    Progression over three weeks of handle wrappings (comings and goings)
 


 
    Swivel post of a chair with rubber wrappings (swiveling in chair)
 


 
    Upholstery marks. Color on chairs, floor, and posts varies for individuals
 


    Splashboard and sewn floor marks
 


    Progression of wrapping on the vertical blinds handle
 


    Process: Watching video of the group at work
 


 


 


    Floor marks (movement around room) were sewn in, often became untied.
 


 


    The room in use by others during the project
 


    The outer door handle
 


    Wax marks in the table. Each session is represented by a new color.
 


 


    Ceilng Marks (acoustic phenomena)
 


    Views of the floor and chair posts
 


 


 


 


 


    Composite image of table leg toward the end of the project.
 


 


 


 


    Other people's 'contributions' with implements from the whiteboard.
 


 


    Olin Hall, just outside Room 204.
 


    Hannah B. translating, with implements for marking the table around her.
 


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