Glanville: Researching Design and Designing Research
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Download pdf Glanville, R. (1999), Researching Design and Designing Research, MIT Press:Cambridge, MA. pp.771-8
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
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Download pdf Glanville, R. (1999), Researching Design and Designing Research, MIT Press:Cambridge, MA. pp.771-8
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
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A series of digitally coded collages produced for Surface Architects for exhibition in Hull, North East England. Each image explores different memories and vectoral layerings of the city by layering specific letters and fonts in an additive boolean process. The ‘designer’ acts as editor, selecting or rejecting different combinative forms in a dialogue with the running coding algorithm to produce a collaborative outcome.
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in September 2012
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Download pdf (if you tweet or facebook it) Kito, A. (2012) Delight in Architecture, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics, delight, GAD RC3, mobiles
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The Epigenetic Object was a mobile that performed and whistled noisily to attract attention, inflating in gratification when petted. Coded behaviours combined with the latent epigenetic qualities of the mobile’s body to produce a continually novel and playful sequence of form and dialogue with the observer. The ambiguities of this encounter were deliberately emphasised with the use of an androgynous yet strangely appealing doll’s head at the centre of the piece.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: installations, interaction
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Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Download pdf Khan, O. and Beesley, P. (2009), ‘Responsive Architecture/Performing Instruments’, in Khan, O. Scholz, T. and Shepard, M. (eds.) Situated Technologies Pamphlets 4. The Architectural League of New York: New York, US.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics, interaction
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Taken somewhere in Cornwall in December 2011
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Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Download pdf Kritikou, A. (2013) Constructing the Experience, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics, GAD RC3, phenomenology
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Taken in Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
Categories: Doodles & Scribbles • Tags: drawings, rome
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Taken in Fecamp, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Concept design for a ‘pop-up’ local library box to be installed in disused retail units. Rather than simply focussing on the materiel of books, the solution targets programmatic affordance, with projective and interactive surfaces, acoustic treatments that double as re-configurable seating seating and high density book storage and ‘vending’.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: drawings, installations, libraries, pop-up, temporary
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Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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Photo-record of ArcAngel’s 2011 sail around Cornwall, mooring at: Falmouth-Helston-Scillies-Padstow-Lundy-Milford Haven
Categories: Travel Records, Visual Vitamins • Tags: arcangel, cornwall, travel
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Download pdf Qingling, T. (2013) Mediated Reality In Bearable Prosthesis, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: GAD RC3, prosthetics, reality
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Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in January 2012
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Download pdf Koch, D. (2004), ‘Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning’, Licentiate Thesis, KTH, Stockholm:SWE.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: space syntax
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Download pdf Rengran, Z. (2012) Reification:Imitation, Symbol and Substitution, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: GAD RC3, imitation, substitution, symbol
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Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Download pdf McElhinney, S. (2010) Labyrinths, Mazes and the Spaces Inbetween, in Robert Trappl (ed), Cybernetics and Systems, V.20, Austrian Society for Cybernetics Studies:Vienna, Austria. pp.104-109
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics, labyrinths, mazes
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Design drawings and renders of proposed Beacon and Gantry structures produced in April and May 2012, during the London 2012 Wayfinding project. (See here for completed structures and project explanation). Completed with Surface Architects.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: drawings, london 2012
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[click & drag to pan] Discovered in Broadstairs, Kent, in January 2012
Categories: Research • Tags: food, photosynths, walking
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Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in May 2012
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A conversion of the isovist-agent software into c++ has led to a number of performance improvements. As a result new complexities of isovist analysis can be calculated and recorded in realtime. This includes reflection and projection of spatial depth; ie mirror and glazing surfaces, as well as barriers and mobile elements. A plan of the Soane Museum in London is being used as a test analysis for the system. These images illustrate different ‘spectral’ recordings of the spatial depths perceived […]
Categories: Research • Tags: agents, art, coding, drawings, isovists, labyrinths, mapping, mazes, space syntax
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Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Iterative ‘loom’ models proposing points and forms of intervention within the Valletta context. Based on an in-depth examination of the locally contextual and historically significant practice and processes of silk lace weaving, these models proposed a series of interventions within the ancient city fortifications.
Categories: Architecture • Tags: models, valletta
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Study of multiple generations of autonomous spatial agents progressing through a real-time reconfiguring maze-matrix. ‘Doors’ in this opened or closed depending on maze-inherent desires over occupation levels. Those that tended towards closure are illustrated as ‘walls’. Dependent on the desire sets exhibited by the maze, different ‘wall’ structures were observed. These can be related back to archetypal plan forms, suggesting an emergent occupational basis for common architectural devices.
Categories: Research • Tags: agents, coding, drawings, labyrinths
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[click & drag to pan] Wooden barn under reconstruction, recorded in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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