Calendario Delle Maree

Apart from being a means of transport, boats on water can help you gauge the flow of tides and depth of water from their movements. Calendario delle Maree is a simple device through which to make sense of the relationship between depth and surface.

Participants were invited to take one of the square sheets of paper, cut from a Venetian 'tide-time' calendar, fold it into an origami gondola and to take it outside onto the water.

Details

Materials

A4 (210mm x 297mm) instruction sheet; download a .pdf version of the instruction sheet from here (650k)
Sheets of 'Calendarion delle Maree', cut into squares of various sizes

Dimensions: 2m x 3m
Colour of table-top: Dulux 48bg 54/244 'Antigua Bay 3'
Handwritten instructions onto tabletop

Images

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	Detail of Calendario Delle Maree, the paper from which is used to make the origami gondolas.		Installation view of Calendario Delle Maree.
	Written instructions for Calendarion delle Maree.		Installation view of Calendario Delle Maree.
	Installation view of Calendario Delle Maree.		Installation view of origami gondolas.
	Detail of The Art of Paper Folding by Robert Harbin. map on free-standing board, (with Lovers' Chairs).		Instructions for folding origami gondola - these instructions were amended so as to make a Venetian, rather than Chinese gondola (Chinese Junk).
	Photograph from instructions, found at Vaporetti stops in Venice, concerning pedestrian access during times of high tide or Aqua Alta.