Battle Great Wood
by Sam
Taken near Battle, Kent, in August 2011
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Stellata
by Sam
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Timber, light, feet
by Sam
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Folded array
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The Switching Labyrinth: Installation
by Sam
A large installation constructed in a warehouse near Euston, London, in 2009, ‘The Switching Labyrinth’ provided a framework for two weeks of real-time interactive experimentation and observation. 250 metres of black curtains constructed a wrapping of pathways around a central ‘room’, where sliding curtain ‘doors’ periodically shifted, ‘switching’ openings to offer alternative entrance and exits. As an occupant navigated and learnt about the installation, it too observed them, learing about how it was explored and unilaterally modulating its entangling paths […]
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Bloomsbury Cider Press: Detail drawings
by Sam
Hypothetical design for an apple tree nursery and cider mill in Bloomsbury, London. Completed in collaboration with Tetsuro Nagata
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Choppy seas, Margate pier
by Sam
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Glanville: Researching Design and Designing Research
by Sam
Download pdf Glanville, R. (1999), Researching Design and Designing Research, MIT Press:Cambridge, MA. pp.771-8
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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Mers de Bains: Block corner.
by Sam
Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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White Cliffs and blue skies over Dover.
by Sam
Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Psarra & McElhinney: Just Around The Corner From Where You Are
by Sam
Download pdf Psarra, S and McElhinney, S. (2014) Just Around the Corner from Where You Are: Probabilistic isovist fields, inference and embodied projection, in Koch, D and Miranda Carranza, P (eds), The Journal of Space Syntax, V.5 Issue 1, UCL, London. pp.109-132 The work described in this paper was supported by the UCL Space Group EPSRC platform grant EP/G02619X/1 (P7726), in the context of a research project on Dynamic Three Dimensional Space Syntax Modelling, directed by Sophia Psarra at UCL.
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Drogo Jelly
by Sam
Taken at Castle Drogo, Devon, in March 2012
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Sea of Galilee and a hot tub #win
by Sam
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Lenin in clingfilm
by Sam
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Villa, dissolved
by Sam
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Field trip planning underway….
by Sam
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Red Triangles
by Sam
Taken in Oxford, in February 2012
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Berardi: Predictable Unpredictability
by Sam
Download pdf Berardi, V. (2012) Predictable Unpredictability, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Beauty and grief
by Sam
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Leaky lock
by Sam
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Here again
by Sam
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Walking Places: Wistman’s Wood
by Sam
Wistman’s Wood is a scrap of surviving ancient woodland that you can find near Two Bridges, Dartmoor. It is hidden 30 minutes walk up a steep sided valley. The trees are oaks, twisted and miniaturised by the rocky clitter upon which they have slowly grown. The tallest is seven metres high. [click & drag to pan] Similar woodland used to cover most of the moor and the UK, but beginning in the Neolithic Period, man’s activities have cleared the entire […]
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Abandoned at Quintins Boat Club
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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The Epigenetic Object
by Sam
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.
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Garden yellow no.3
by Sam
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Rooftop cactus garden above the Douro, Porto.
by Sam
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Magnolia seed harvest #orange #newbeginnings
by Sam
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Pom-Pom in red
by Sam
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BT future tech: pavement pop-up switcher
by Sam
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Gage: Edge Monkeys
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2005), Edge Monkeys, in Technoetic Arts, Intellect Ltd:Bristol, UK.
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Turing: Computing Machinery and Intelligence
by Sam
Download pdf Turing, A. (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Mind 49:London, UK pp.433-460.
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Davis: Assault on German Village
by Sam
Download pdf Davis, M. (1999), ‘Assault on German Village’, in Der Spiegel: Berlin, Ger.
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Gladiolus
by Sam
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Very little house
by Sam
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Digital Agents: Rotational Archaeologies
by Sam
Prototype testing of the responsiveness of high resolution, autonomously visual spatial agents within an active digital environment. This approach uses a geometric basis for the resolution and intersectional calculations of each agent’s ‘isovist’ or visual field, leading to successful pathseeking behaviours.
Solhem Barn Interior
by Sam
Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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Soane Museum: Real and Percieved Space
by Sam
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 […]
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McElhinney: European Meeting of Cybernetics and Systems Research 2010
by Sam
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
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Costa Rica: Life
Life shots from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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Most epic stamp-age
by Sam
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Rome: Churches
by Sam
Pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
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Ashby: An Introduction to Cybernetics
by Sam
Download pdf Ashby, W.R. (1957) An Introduction to Cybernetics. Chapman and Hall: London, UK.
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Just for you, DanWith thanks to RoJo et al
by Sam
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The Dog and the Sea
by Sam
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Varna: Improvisational Choreography
by Sam
Download pdf Varna, C. (2013) Improvisational Choreography as a design language for Spatial Interaction, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Palladio
by Sam
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Vista in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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Saline drip and flowers
by Sam
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Upholstery
Ongoing work restoring period furniture
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Teaser
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in January 2012
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