Will Nash's latest School project is You Are Here - Commissioned by Impact Art & West Sussex County Council.
The project brief is to develop a Wayfinding and School Campus identity for two new build schools in Bognor Regis.The two sites must work individually reflecting the difference in scale and user, yet share a common thread. The artists will consider the specific needs, context and age ranges within the two new buildings and develop appropriate work in consultation with the schools and their wider communities. The artist will then need to work across the design team to ensure a transitional approach to the wayfinding and sense of progression for student, staff, parents and wider community users.
Explore the identity of the schools, the ideas of transition and moving (both physical movement and movement through time). Map student, staff and parents paths/journeys both into and around the current schools, sports centre and other buildings, Work with the BSF team and the schools project teams, students & staff to map the possible physical and mental journeys in and to the new building, the learning zones and the landscape.
The physical results will consist of - wayfinding functional sculptures outside the schools and/or architectural orientation graphics and signage inside and outside the school (this could range from the sign above the main entrance to pictograms, room numbers, area/year identity graphics, pathways/directions on and across the campus between the schools).
