On the Physical Implications of the Applications of Visual Information

On the Physical Implications of the Applications of Visual Information was a year long project to build and install 26 tables in a middle school in Hertfordshire.
These tables fitted together to form 7 flags. The pieces of flag were distributed around the school in different spaces from classrooms to offices, the children were not given any information other than that some new tables had arrived.

The project was intended to function in several ways.

1. That the tables would act as micro-architectures, designed around the consrtaints of a visually formed linguistic code (the flag), and would influence their lives as a physical negotiation of said architecture.
2. That the pupils would understand that these architectures had been inserted into their lives as a type of communication that they could question.
3. That the pupils would be empowered to sieze the physical fabric of their built environment (the tables) and act upon them to solve the elements of the coded communication (i.e. try to complete the 'jigsaws' which the pieces of flag suggested)

(The bottom two mages show the project as shown in 'La Commune', Serpentine Gallery, London, summer 2007.)