Picccadilly Circus, London


The Science Museum, London


 Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford

  

Future Plans

Propose to undertake the project in different cities and environments. These could include;
  • Projected across the whole of the Natural History Museum facade, London.
  • At the Science Museum, London.
  • Bath town centre, Burton Street (busy, pedestrianised and a clear wall in the space)
  • In lots of locations in one city on one day, for example in TV shop windows on plasma screens, projected on many walls around the city, on tiny screens in bus shelters....
  • The Department of Chemistry Building, University of Oxford.
  • Piccadilly Circus, London.
  • Projected in school grounds.
  • Make a Goelemental 'tent' that people can explore, maybe with sewn element images on the interior and/or interactive projections within and outside

Develop and expand GoElemental! into other formats. These could include;

  • Make a huge floor periodic table with pressure pads under the elements. People could stand o an element to show animations and information on an adjacent wall about it (like the floor piano in the film 'Big').
  • Make an interactive DVD of the piece where you can select and element with your TV controller. A number of animations would be available for each element, showing a variety of interesting uses/facts about the elements.
  • Make a cd-rom for schools. After liaising with science teachers, it was suggested that GoElemental! would be great for an inspiring introduction lesson in chemistry and the world in general..
    In cd-rom form the kids could shout out an element and the teacher could just press a button and show them how that element fits into their life and hopefully make it a lot more fun and dispel the view of the periodic table as just being a load of boring metals that sometimes fizz in water...
  • Further educational possibilities could include having GoElemental! workshops in schools. In small groups students would be given an element to find out about, explore its uses, it's interesting facts and stories. The students would then storyboard their own animation. They could either draw, use computers or act out their element that would be used in a personalised 'GoElemental! This would be a great way of involving students in chemistry and the elements around us and making it fun and memorable.

Sponsorship and Funding

  • Make proposals to the phone networks such as Virgin and vodaphone to get sponsorship for any future GoElemental! that uses the phone technology.
  • Apply for funding to buy a more powerful projector for large scale work like the Natural History Museum idea, also to buy a touch screen of my own and a more powerful laptop that could be used specifically for the project as opposed to my personal one!
  • Obtain funding to add audio to the animations. For example in the animation for Gold have the sound of a Jet zooming past that the participants can hear.

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