Berardi: Predictable Unpredictability
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Download pdf Berardi, V. (2012) Predictable Unpredictability, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Download pdf Berardi, V. (2012) Predictable Unpredictability, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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Piece experimenting with the properties of a paper-clay mix to achieve more complex and delicate structures.
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Taken in Heathrow, West London, in July 2012
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Taken in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011
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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.
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Geometric properties of an isovist provide a measure of the perceived spatiality from a defined ‘point of view’. As such they provide the basis for explorative movement, based on realtime numeric derivation of directional goals. Below we demonstrate three different movement strategies established in this manner. (above) Movement towards the perceived axial centroid of an unexplored space (axial movement). (above) Movement towards the nearest point on a perceived occluded edge of an unexplored space (proximal movement). (above) Movement towards the […]
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Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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The below diagrams are a taxonomic series in which we apply the methods described here and the spatial classifications described here to a plan analysis of Sir John Soane’s Museum. Interpretation of these results is ongoing and discursive annotations will be added in due course. The mappings above were produced using a methodology established in the context of a research project on Dynamic Three Dimensional Space Syntax Modelling directed by Sophia Psarra at UCL. The project was supported by the […]
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Taken in Hyde Park, Central London, in August 2012
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If a labyrinth is a continual spatial line, tightly wound onto, but never intersecting itself, what does it become if it is lifted into a different geometry and dimension? What novel things might this tell us about the spaces we construct and how we gain delight through their occupation? This experimental prototyping explores hyperbolic geometry; where instead of being limited to one degree of parallel line, infinite variation can be achieved. This project is ongoing.
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Second implementation and testing of a species of autonomously visual spatial agents within an active digital environment. This demonstrates ability to deal with a high degree of complexity and activity within the context whilst achieving successful pathseeking behaviours based upon long-distance vision. This approach uses a raytrace mechanic basis for the generation and resolution of the isovist.
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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’.
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Ongoing work restoring period furniture
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[click & drag to pan] Discovered in Broadstairs, Kent, in January 2012
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in September 2012
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Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (1979) Cybernetics of Cybernetics, Lecture, University of Illinois:Alabama, US
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Download pdf Letesson, Q. and Driessen, J. (2008) From ‘Party’ to ‘Ritual’ to ‘Ruin’: The Spatial Context of Feasting, in Hitchcock, L. Laffineur, R. and Crowley, J. CROWLEY (eds), DAIS, The Aegean Feast (AEGAEUM 29), University of Liège:Liège-Austin,BEL. pp. 207-215
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in August 2012
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Mapping of strategic opportunities on the tideways and basins of the East Thames, London. This work lead to identification of potential forms and typologies of housing to be floated on the river as a response to limited supply of key worker and family home supply in the surrounding areas.
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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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Download pdf Prougestaporn, N. (2012) Interactive Mobile Theatre, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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[click & drag to pan] Jake and Charlotta’s reception was held in an old milking barn. The bar was in the central wooden feed-trough Recorded in Solhem, West Sweden, in September 2011.
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Download pdf Koch, D. (2004), ‘Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning’, Licentiate Thesis, KTH, Stockholm:SWE.
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Drawings which iteratively explore common simple labyrinth forms; overlaying each to illustrate how one type might be switched or folded into another. This process subjects the delicate ‘coherence’ of the recognisable labyrinth symbols to fragmentation, generating potentially ‘switching’ or momentarily incoherent maze conditions.
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