Gandhi? endorses Portugese coffee.
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Millfield Inflatables Day
by Sam
A day long adventure in the experimental making of inflatable structures with the pupils of Millfield Prep School, Somerset.
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Inch Clare
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Labyrinth Drawings
by Sam
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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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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Harbour entrance #Dover
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Taken off Dover, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Crisp
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Hillier: Space is the Machine
by Sam
Download pdf Hillier, B (2007) Space is the machine: a configurational theory of architecture. Space Syntax: London, UK.
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Spatial fields in Hypothetical Layouts
by Sam
The below diagrams are a taxonomic series in which we apply the methods described here to a series of hypothetical geometric layouts. 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 UCL Space Group EPSRC platform grant EP/G02619X/1 (P7726).
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Von Foerster: Cybernetics of Cybernetics
by Sam
Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (1979) Cybernetics of Cybernetics, Lecture, University of Illinois:Alabama, US
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Digital Agents: Agent-Maze Ecologies
by Sam
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.
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Palladian Drift, Villa Rotonda
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Bobbins
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Graff'd dist board, Casa De Musica, Porto
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Startings
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Perimeter in a simple gridisovists.org
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Hedge perfection
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UCA third year architecture at Whitstable
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Poissonnerie.
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Taken in Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Long way down
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Chesil and back
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The Switching Labyrinth: Installation
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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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Field trip planning underway….
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UEL Reception
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Taken in Docklands, East London, in July 2012
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Puzzling
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Army bivvy with cunning camo kit #london2012
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Taken in Stratford, East London, in July 2012
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Basilica #budapest
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This is where my parents are today #jealous
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Taken in a fjord in Norway in July 2012
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The Generative Folly
by Sam
The Generative Folly was a week long building workshop with students from the Canterbury School of Architecture’s Third year Interior Architecture and Design BA and the MA Architecture courses. It was run in collaboration with Hanif Kara from Structural Engineers AKT II to come up with design solutions for the deployment of a repetitive timber module. 130 elements were prefabricated in the Canterbury workshop and over a week students developed competitive proposals, carried out structural tests and finally collaboratively assembled […]
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Glanville: The Purpose of Second Order Cybernetics
by Sam
Download pdf Glanville, R. (2004), ‘The Purpose of Second Order Cybernetics’, Kybernetes, vol.33 no.9/10, Emerald:UK. pp.1379-86.
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A bit of swell off Eagle Island
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Valletta: Models
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.
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Meet Nando the chicken
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Control in a simple gridisovists.org
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Folded array
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Costa Rica: Seascapes
Seascapes from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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Old bouquets
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Abandoned at Quintins Boat Club
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Honfleur, wooden tower with buttressing details.
by Sam
Taken in Honfleur, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Valletta: Sectional Drawings
Sectional and material proposals for a new lace weaving facility within the ancient city fortifications of Valletta, Malta.
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Cornish tree
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Taken somewhere in Cornwall in December 2011
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Walking Places: Harrods
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Recorded in Central London, in January 2012
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Travel Sketches
Lizzie’s assorted travel sketches
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Folkestone harbour arm
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The Dog and the Sea
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Much stairs
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Metallic grey
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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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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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Instagram Image
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Gage: How to Design a Black and White Box
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2007), ‘How to design a black and white box’, Kybernetes, vol.36 no.9/10, Emerald:UK. pp.1329-39.
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Digital Agents: Agent-Maze Dialogues
by Sam
Study of an autonomous spatial agent progressing through a real-time reconfiguring maze-matrix. Agent behaviours changed in response to modulation of individual spatial ‘desires’ and the ‘discovered’ or observed changing environment. Dependent on variation and combination of desire sets, different movement typologies can be categorised; these have a direct relation back to ancient labyrinth form elements. An emergent, emotive root for the occupation and understanding of spatialities is implied.
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Reflections and spatial fields in the Soane Museum
by Sam
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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Soane
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