2:13PM
2022
2:13PM documents a series of “happenings,” a set of short workshops imitating the loose rules of play. They question the condition of the spaces we inhabit and whether we can utilise them for play. By moulding adult spaces into playgrounds we can enter the magic circle – to forget rules and habits, predetermined social behaviours ad conventions, to loosen up, and to break and build relationships. We invite you to rediscover play.
FormA3 & various sizes
80 pages
red & green risograph
recycled sugar paper
spiral-bound
80 pages
red & green risograph
recycled sugar paper
spiral-bound
RolesDesign
Illustration
Photography
Writing
Workshop
Book-binding
Illustration
Photography
Writing
Workshop
Book-binding
collaboratORs
Wojciech Fec
Ilka Gilvesy
Chiao Huang
Urjuan Toosy
Yunfeng Yao
Ziou Ye
Tongyu Zheng
Wojciech Fec
Ilka Gilvesy
Chiao Huang
Urjuan Toosy
Yunfeng Yao
Ziou Ye
Tongyu Zheng
For our first project at the RCA, my teammates and I were given the brief ‘anything the team wants.’ During our study in post-pandemic 2022, when everything had just returned to in-person, what we wanted was to bring back human interactions, playfulness, and tactility in design.
After an initial activity of exchanging drawings and poems within the team, we organised a series of drawing workshops opened to School of Communication students and faculties. By giving open-ended prompts to groups of randomised people, such as ‘draw a perfect cricle,’ or ‘illustrate the steps to pour a glass of water,’ we encouraged and reminded each other to communicate, interact, and experiment with different tools. We collated all the outcomes and started the design stage.
After an initial activity of exchanging drawings and poems within the team, we organised a series of drawing workshops opened to School of Communication students and faculties. By giving open-ended prompts to groups of randomised people, such as ‘draw a perfect cricle,’ or ‘illustrate the steps to pour a glass of water,’ we encouraged and reminded each other to communicate, interact, and experiment with different tools. We collated all the outcomes and started the design stage.
We made a worksheet-like grid as a structure of the layout, while all the text that we wrote in a creative spirit are set in a quirky hand-written typeface made by our teammate Ilka, simbolising the idea of play and rule-breaking. Since we intend to make this book a tactile and physical experience, we assigned different sections to different paper sizes. The publication was then printed on multi-coloured, recycled sugar paper with red and green Risograph, randomised, assembled, and finished with a hot pink spiral, to reflect its playfulness.
2:13PM is now part of the zine collection of RCA library, and was on display at the Kensington campus for a zine highlight in 2024.
2:13PM is now part of the zine collection of RCA library, and was on display at the Kensington campus for a zine highlight in 2024.
