Weybosseptember was produced in collaboration with Jeffrey Waldman (GD ’12), as a response to a Visiting Designer’s Workshop with Vaughan Oliver who asked the students to imagine a calendar for a 13th month. We looked at the street numbers of Weybosset street as marks that divide space and therefore time and function similarly to the way that calendar days do.
Weybosset Street begins close to the Providence River at the intersection with Westminster Street and ends at the intersection with Empire Street. Originally part of a Pequot Trail, its name refers to the crossing point in the Providence River between the east and west sides.
All the visible street numbers on the street were photographed and the typography was traced and applied to colored office paper. Each number was color coded according to the program of the building on the street, thus blue numbers are educational buildings, office space is green and retail and service buildings take the yellow color. Each of the numbers was also represented according to its size. smaller building were printed on half, medium—full and large tiled on four sheets of letter-sized paper.
The mundane material material of inter-office communication was transformed into a wall installation just as the everyday vernacular of street numbers was used to create a portrait of the street.
