Review of all the markets

Impossible Things

The market excelled on appearance and the performance of the people running the stall. Aesthetically the market was really good, colorful and striking to the eyes which gave all the stalls an initial positive response from the customers, while watching them walk thorough the area I noticed a lot of them were looking around and genuinely intrigued with how everything looked. The Market also benefited from how much the people in the stalls interacted with the customers, most people approaching them before their stall, further strengthening the atmosphere of the stall, some examples of this are, our stall (birthday party) Maryam and India approached the people as they came towards the stall and wished them a happy birthday, making the theme of the stall clear, another example was the detention stall, where Calum walked around handing out detentions, making up reasons for these detentions. Due to the compact space we had to work with and the decision to make the market linear, there was a lot of congestion and the later stalls in the pit didn't start getting people till about 30 min into the market, because of this the start of the market was very cramped and chaotic and a large collection of people missed out on the last couple of stalls, one thing to note is everyone's reaction to the fact they couldn't go to the remaining stalls was disappointment, which indicates how much they enjoyed the market and how much they wanted to see the rest.
Perhaps if we had more time, both in organizing and running the market these problems wouldn't have been as bad, (or existed) there was definitely a need for us to have run another mock market so that the congestion problem would've been realized and a solution made for the problem.


Immaterial Labours

Unfortunately I did not attend this market due to me not feeling too well.


Abandoned Materials

This stall was very coherent and clearly displayed what it was about. The market as a whole looked like a single market rather a gathering of stalls in a designated space, most of the stalls using a similar faded color palette, of cardboard or paper. Most of the stalls clearly showed what their theme was, some even showed you the process they took to make what they were 'selling', from making paper from recycled paper pulp, to grinding their own coffee beans, this helped the customers to understand the process of cycle of what they've recycled. Upon entering the market there was no clear direction you had to take, however the market naturally ran in a clockwise direction so any collisions between groups of people were avoided, this process was assisted by the group of people who walked around and helped you if you were in need and made the market flow better. There was also some other forms of 'recycling' where adjacent stalls would use each others products to strengthen the others, this was really cool to see and was another example of recycling, a good example of the term, 'another mans trash is another mans treasure'. The exit however was very hidden and I almost missed it if it were not for those who were walking around, the 'exit', a dream space felt very disconnected from the rest of the market, from being very hidden to the fact that there was no 'material' that was abandoned, rather it used dreams.