Set up as an entry for the LA2050 Activation Challenge, this trailer promotes Nomadic Notes as a part of the vision for the future of Los Angeles. The project creates the flexible and nomadic infrastructure that gives non profit music-teaching organizations the tools and environments to bring high caliber musical education to low-income neighborhoods.
Tasked with designing an urban intervention in the form of a ‘game’ to implement in low-income neighborhoods in Los Angeles, the idea of facilitating the teaching of music to children in schools blossomed into a mobile teaching space that could be classrooms, house instruments, and become the stage for concerts and ensembles. Although quite a few non-profit music teaching exist and operate in the LA area, they all either do not have spaces suited to teaching music or require that students travel to their facilities - which is not an option for many children in these neighborhoods.
Nomadic Notes fills this gap; by providing quality teaching spaces in trucks that have been retrofitted to suit teaching needs, they can now roam around different neighborhoods and dock in different marked locations approved by the LADOT. Since learning to play instruments has been positively correlated to grades in schools, these teaching facilities (lined with insulative materials on the interior, flexible storage spaces, and stages and LED screens for performances) would be run by the aforementioned organizations, but dock near schools, providing easy access for children after school.
Student work done at the IDEAS SUPRASTUDIO under Mark Mack and Gabby Shawcross.
