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Explorations around dwelling/site based ontologies : Site/Life-specific installations.  Outpost 240123 Speculative/Creative /Geographies/around Moving Bodies of Thought. Explorations around dwelling/site based ontologies. Dwelling/Person/Environment/Engagements. The simple fluid ‘flat’ making ontologies of bringing/bonding clay forms together. Worlding/Water/Performative/Intraventions. A Practice of Transformational Modalities. The Processual Character of Form. Organic life, as I envisage it, is active rather than reactive,…

Playing With Structural Modalities/Making/Tensions : Speculative Spatial Constructions.  Structural Modalities/Making/Tensions : Spatial Forms to gather/interact with discursive research. https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/24337820341/in/dateposted-public/ 5 Procedural Architecture Start by thinking of architecture as a tentative constructing toward a holding in place. Architecture’s holding in place occurs within and as part of a prevailing atmospheric condition that others routinely call biosphere…

Giving Sensations Place/Site : Subjective/Hypothesis/Bricolage/Tectonics/Working Scripts/Making Camps.   IMMATERIAL ARCHITECTURES MAKING IN THE LANDSCAPE. RAVENINGHAM SCULPTURE TRAIL 2018/2020 STIMULATING TENSIONS. BRICOLAGE / HEURISTIC PRACTICE, Using things at hand, temporal, self constructions, becomings, mind forming explorations. Mediating/Architecting the experience of LANDSCAPE. The building as nothing more than an exposition of itself. Georg Simmel, text Frames, Handles,…

Camouflage/Concept and Design : Re-Working Aesthetics/The Everyday Everyday Aesthetics : Ordinary Lives If the everyday can be considered an ecology where passions circulate in a perpetual state of intensification and entropic decline, the empirical self (and not just David Hume’s version of it) is essentially in a state of flux. This posits the human as…

Sketch Books/Strange Loops : Drawings, Materials, Annotations, Collages and Constructions 2018-20  OUTPOST STUDIO 3.16 Agency through sketchbooks Apokatastasis : Jim Jarmusch, Jozef Van Wissem Spatial Asperity/Mesh, Membrane and Gauze Drawing and its attempts to map out/make visible contingent things Contingency, is what remains, as it comes up against causality/constantly passing through Objects/Things conceptualized by the…

Atmosphere and Surrounding Objects : Loose Assemblages/Living Emotions/Theoretical Gaze Paintings being living emotions. Mark Rothko The atmosphere of a work of art, what surrounds it, that ‘place’ in which it exists – all this is thought of as a lesser thing, charming but not essential. Professionals insist on essentials … not understanding that everything we…

Inquiry is essentially the way of learning : Fragile Architectures of Hapticity and Time In an era in which architecture is once more learning its potential as a form of inquiry, rather than as a service — as a producer of knowledge, and not merely of ‘projects’. Brett Steele, Atlas-Tectonics in Barkow Leibininger, Bricoleur Bricolage.…

Drawing Rooms : Cyanotypes/Collages/Photography Slow Philosophy. 2017 Reading against the institution Michelle Boulous Walker Saturnian Form : Lead and Library Dates Russell Moreton Emilio Prini The filter and welcome to the angel, 1967 Environment with participants, doves, artificial green grass, socks, ultra-violet light. Dimensions variable, Installation, Studio Bentivoglio, Bologna. Artist-run exhibition space Emilio Prini well…

Inside Phenomena : Innerness and Interior : Surface Pleasures Theory and Analysis. In the future will we be able to extract the Platonic values that Hans Coper writes about with regard to the Egyptian vessel? This essay is an attempt to get to understand my current concerns centred around the interior spaces of things and…

A humble, passive, somewhat absurd object, yet potent, mysterious, sensuous : Hans Coper Hans Coper, Theory and Object Analysis, Crafts Study Centre, Farnham. MA Interior Design A vessel (as membrane/threshold that can hold social rituals/traditions and memories) seems to occupy space but simultaneously be occupied by space. Theories of relativity and uncertainty have shown that…