One & Other is an art project conceived by Antony Gormley. The idea was to create a living portrait of the U.K. by putting 2400 people from all over the UK on the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square London for one hour each, 24 hours a day, for 100 days.
The human-centric nature of the project required a human-centric web experience in which multiple elements could be incorporated. With the entire UK as potential participants we included a competition engine that would randomly select an equal spread of men and women across all regions of the UK. To engage the nationwide spectrum of potential participants we, among other functionality, created a blogging platform for viewer involvement, in order to form communities and foster participation around those with places on the plinth.
The site was built in an Agile, Test Driven manner using a variety of technologies, including the Movable Type blogging platform and a bespoke solution using Ruby on Rails, and some Flash elements alongside a standards-complaint, accessible xHTML frontend. As an artistic project, our approach to requirements-gathering had to be extremely rigorous and sensitive, thereby ensuring that the client's wishes were reflected in every detail of the finished project.
The human-centric nature of the project required a human-centric web experience in which multiple elements could be incorporated. With the entire UK as potential participants we included a competition engine that would randomly select an equal spread of men and women across all regions of the UK. To engage the nationwide spectrum of potential participants we, among other functionality, created a blogging platform for viewer involvement, in order to form communities and foster participation around those with places on the plinth.
The site was built in an Agile, Test Driven manner using a variety of technologies, including the Movable Type blogging platform and a bespoke solution using Ruby on Rails, and some Flash elements alongside a standards-complaint, accessible xHTML frontend. As an artistic project, our approach to requirements-gathering had to be extremely rigorous and sensitive, thereby ensuring that the client's wishes were reflected in every detail of the finished project.
