A Map Across the Room is a one-night exhibition where visitors are invited to travel across a room to collectively create a map with their movement. The entry mat will serve as a stamp pad where red ink is traced across the exhibition space, illustrating the journey of each visitor with varying degrees of intensity. Small digital screens displaying short films about domesticity, nostalgia, and ecology will act as intermediate disturbances to accompany the visitors’ journey.
As part of the exhibition, the creation of the map will be recorded on camera from the ceiling above. The exhibition asks its participants to reflect on their journey through this fictionalised space as a form of domestic ecology, inviting both their physical and mental involvement to be intertwined and ultimately questioning whether this performative entanglement can be considered as a collective act of design.
Participants
Hannah Zhu, HABIT
Hannah Zhu is an interdisciplinary designer and sessional academic at RMIT with an education in architecture, whose work explores cinematic and theatrical space, and the relationships between human, non-human, inanimate beings and their spatial ecology.
HABIT is a design studio that focuses on the relationship between ecology, narrative, society, and the built environment. HABIT participated in the 2023 Test Sites Public Art Program funded by the City of Melbourne with the installation ‘Push / Pull’, and was recently commissioned by the University of Melbourne for the installation ‘Under My Wing’ at the MPavilion Parkville.
A Map Across the Room is a one-night exhibition where visitors are invited to travel across a room to collectively create a map with their movement. The entry mat will serve as a stamp pad where red ink is traced across the exhibition space, illustrating the journey of each visitor with varying degrees of intensity. Small digital screens displaying short films about domesticity, nostalgia, and ecology will act as intermediate disturbances to accompany the visitors’ journey.
As part of the exhibition, the creation of the map will be recorded on camera from the ceiling above. The exhibition asks its participants to reflect on their journey through this fictionalised space as a form of domestic ecology, inviting both their physical and mental involvement to be intertwined and ultimately questioning whether this performative entanglement can be considered as a collective act of design.
Participants
Hannah Zhu, HABIT
Hannah Zhu is an interdisciplinary designer and sessional academic at RMIT with an education in architecture, whose work explores cinematic and theatrical space, and the relationships between human, non-human, inanimate beings and their spatial ecology.
HABIT is a design studio that focuses on the relationship between ecology, narrative, society, and the built environment. HABIT participated in the 2023 Test Sites Public Art Program funded by the City of Melbourne with the installation ‘Push / Pull’, and was recently commissioned by the University of Melbourne for the installation ‘Under My Wing’ at the MPavilion Parkville.
