Renga Game and Site Stamp

Enter Renga Game, 
champion cast with iron,
welcome RXtype.
 
As part of the RX annual benefit on March 12, 2011, HallMfg will be on site running the Renga Game and Site Stamp.
 
Renga Game is an opportunity for event attendees to engage with a wall filled with RX keywords. Game contestants can enter by organizing select keywords into a renga (poem) in the haiku form of a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.  Attendees are encouraged to buy a digital print of the entries with proceeds going towards the production of the game trophy.
Aims of this project are to inspire a playful engagement with the RX organizational key messages.
At the end of the evening, RX staff will vote on their favorite renga entry. The top choice will be developed into the trophy, and a multiple of that will live at the warehouse as a permanent commemorative.
 
Site Stamp is an on-site design activity that will result in the production of RXtype. We are making a 3-dimensional font. 
An index of the forms, shapes, surfaces, textures, and available tactile details from raw materials, appliances, building supplies, and hardwares at the RX warehouse will be pressed into clay tiles. The tiles will be collected and cut, shaped and formed into an alphabet of letter forms. 
Once the alphabet is complete, each letter will be molded in plaster. The RXtype can be used to produce signage and typographic messages for the organization and beyond. The winner of the Renga Game will receive a trophy cast in iron using RXtype.
In keeping with an essential mission of RX to identify opportunities to recode existing objects by assigning new value or context to that material or object, this project identifies a single claw foot iron bathtub to be upcycled into raw iron. The raw material will be smelted down and cast into the trophy and commemorative, permanent signage for the warehouse. 

Event info:
here

Results and evaluation to follow in subsequent posts here!