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Thinking Things : The Archi-Textual Surface.     Rebecca Solnit explores Susan Bordo’s claim that ‘if the body is a metaphor for our locatedness in space and time and thus for the finitude of human perception and knowledge, then the post modern body is no body at all.’ Solnit comments on this post modern body…

Drawing Surfaces : Situated Knowledges  Outpost 120123 Red Is Not A Colour Architectural Concepts Bernard Tschumi What role does the audience play in the definition of a provocative project? What are the ways in which I want to construct my world? The in-between chapters that reveal his underlying beliefs and influences. From movies to built…

Corpus/Borderlands : A Society in Excess, Marc Auge. Corpus : Photographic drawings from human outlines Borderlines : Cley 19, speculative submission for exhibition ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTIONS AROUND ISSUES OF SPACES, ORIGINS, SOCIAL RITUALS AND TABOOS.   CREATING CREATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY INTO TEMPORAL SITES, between the concrete and the spatial. Utilising processes and strategies and terminologies. Demarcation, set…

Spatial/Diffractive Bodies Situated in Place : Matters of Fidelity and Precariousness.   Bringing Things To Life. Creative entanglements in a world of materials. The Environment Without Objects. Tim Ingold. 2008 Intermediaries within the cyanotype process. Trace drawings on paper with organic and material from the built environment. Drawing/Making Processes. Architectural Body : Organism, Person, Environment.…

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…

The phenomenal nature of the idea : Architectural Intertwining/Environs, object scripted inquiry Architectural Body Madeline Gins and Arakawa Working Notes/Holding in Place Wayfinding/Movements through accumulated research Running scripts, enactments, instances, involvements Collaborative texts, complexity, emergent, discursive From The Bookcase to The Field Table : Landing Sites of Inquiry Spatial Collage 2010 Lead, photographic (pinhole) and…

Visual/Spatial Vocabularies and Narratives (Livelihoods and Social Interactions)  The Solar Pavilion, Upper Lawn, Wiltshire. SP3 6SJ ‘A building intervenes between subject and space.’(Kengo Kuma) ‘Things need to be ordinary and heroic at the same time.’(Alison and Peter Smithson) ‘The Charged Void- contains references to the architects’ concern that their buildings should command a wider territory.…

Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity  Outpost 260622 CYANOTYPE SUN MAPPINGS SPAB Building Conservation/Casework Campaigning/Innovative Research/Immersive Training Programmes/Working Parties. INHABITATION, the inter-dependence of mankind within socio economic frameworks. SKIN, SURFACE, SUBJECTIVITY. Insistent moments of alienated encounter. Harriet Katherine Riches. Vernacular Concerns/Folklore/Heritage and Fabric of Buildings. TONALITIES BUILDING MATERIALS Site/Regional Specificity/Local Memory. MATTER AND…

  Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity. Source: Studio Practices : Matter/Material/Making , thinking with flux and mutuality.