BA Arts design and environment Unit 2 project

Unit 2 project

Maida Vale


The scavenger hunt project was designed as a group work for students. In this project the team mates were chosen for each other as well as one post code for each group. Within this task each group had to design a game in the concept of the scavenger hunt .scavenger hunt is a game in which players are given clues to find places or objects one after the other in a certain path. During this game players might also be given other tasks to do such as things to make or hidden objects to find. Then on the actual day of the game each team had to play a scavenger hunt game, designed by anther group.

Our team had 9 members. The list of our team members and their post code was given on the student board .I was chosen to be in the w9 team which was the post code of the Maida Vale area. However as we were all freshmen in CSM and it was just less than a month that our course had started the first task of finding other members of the group took us a whole week.

After we were introduced, the first thing we did was to find the borders of Maida Vale on the map which was not as easy as it seemed. After we all each had the map we went as a group to visit the area .after 3 of hours wondering around we found some interesting places like the maid of ale Senegal, a modern built church and the BBC recording studio.
Although we spent a lot of time in the area in our first visit, short after our arrival we realised we need a lot more information in order to find the interesting spots.
Unlike other groups instead of choosing a particular place for each one of us to study, we did a collective research on the w9 as whole.
After we compared all the information, we chose more interesting places (as few as they were in maid of ale) and with a couple of visits to the area following a couple of meetings we came up with the game. The game just needed testing which we did and project was done.

The most important outcome of this project was learning how to deal with a big group, organising the time and planning every thing so the task could be finalised as asked.
Apart from the game, studying an area step by step and brick by brick counting every inch, gives you an insight not only into that particular area but also the way you can look at anywhere else in your future studies.



Bibliography


Books:

O’Sullivan K., “Dial “M” for Maida Vale”, Published by Westminster City Archives, London 2000

Paddington Waterways & Maida Vale Society Local History Group, “Glimpses into the past, Paddington, Little, Venice and Maida Vale over the years”, Hans Norton Edition, London 2005

University of London Institute of Historical Research, “The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex”, Published by Oxford University Press, New York 1989

“London A to Z”, Geographer’s A-Z Map Company Limited, 2003


Internet Sites:
www.admissions.ucsb.edu/Pdf/SHTQall.pdf, 25th October 2007

www.mathforum.org/ces95/scavenger.html, 25th October 2007www.maps.google.uk, 10th October 2007

www.thewaterwaystrust.co.uk, 10th October 2007www.urbantech.org/scavenger.cfm, 25th October 2007
www.museumof london.org.uk/postcodes/places/w9.html, 10th October 2007


Magazines:

- Time out, London