#uca field trip #worldtour
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Subliminal Brexit messaging
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Walking Places: Naughty but Nice
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[click & drag to pan] Discovered in Broadstairs, Kent, in January 2012
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Chap I met in #Hull today
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Taken in Hull, in March 2012
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Great new book to read
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Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Doorbell detail, Córdoba
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Mers de Bains: Style collisions.
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Taken in Mers de Bains, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Starting our ten day marine trip from #Brighton Marina, actually an early Jan Kaplicky
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Taken in Brighton, South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Bike
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Taken on Hampstead Heath, North London, in January 2012
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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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#Guerilla garden under the westway flyover
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Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Dancing Chevrons
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A matrix of black and white chevrons which displays an inherent ability to iteratively resolve itself into a state of lower entropy. This process continues until a condition of equilibrium is established across the grid; from this point pattern iterations of the solution develop in perpetuity.
Gage: How to Design a Black and White Box
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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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Heading for #Dieppe
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Taken off Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Upholstery
Ongoing work restoring period furniture
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@swix saw this and thought of you #underpass #edge-space
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Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Paper Clay
Piece experimenting with the properties of a paper-clay mix to achieve more complex and delicate structures.
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Porcelain: Pockets of Life
Hanging installation based on a series of porcelain hemispheres.
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Pop Up Library
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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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Dolphin, chain and sun
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Koch: Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning
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Download pdf Koch, D. (2004), ‘Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning’, Licentiate Thesis, KTH, Stockholm:SWE.
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Villa, dissolved
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Von Foerster: Understanding Understanding
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Download pdf Von Foerster, H. (2003) Understanding Understanding, Springer:New York, US
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The Generative Folly
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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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Drift in a simple gridisovists.org
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London 2012 Wayfinding Structures
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Completed with Surface Architects, who were appointed to work with LOCOG and ISG in the design and delivery of a family of high profile Wayfinding structures for the 2012 Olympic Park. The proposals combine historic vectors and iconic influences into a highly distinctive design that fits LOCOG’s original ‘look and feel’ brief. Each form incorporates LED backlighting, creating a field of glowing beacons across the Stratford Park. Six 7m high zone beacons, five 15m high major beacons and two 12m […]
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Video art innit
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Foam on beach at Sandymouth #nofilter
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St Michaels Mount
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Taken in Mounts Bay, Cornwall, in December 2011
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Walking Places: Wistman’s Wood
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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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Costa Rica: Life
Life shots from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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Tin Man at the entrance to Sligo Harbour. Dandy.
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#burningman
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Bleak Horizons
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Travel Sketches
Lizzie’s assorted travel sketches
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Hyperbolic Geometries
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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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Sanlucar sunset
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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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#uca
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Party under the palms
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Endike Primary School, Hull
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RIBA Stage E design completed with Surface Architects as part of the Hull BSF Programme. Includes provision for a shared local library and full scale performance spaces.
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Baby samphire
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Most epic stamp-age
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Hmmm
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UCA: Inflatables Workshop
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Unit design workshop held at the start of the academic year 2011-12 at UCA examining potential modes of ‘self-making’ of low-tech inflatable structures.
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Hedge perfection
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