Thursday, November 3, 2011
Peripheries Conference
The Peripheries Conference is over! - Such a huge effort from Sarah, Agustina, Gamal, Keith, James, Paul and everyone else who helped to bring the conference to Belfast and all those amazing speakers. Everything went off so smoothly and the mix of really excellent keynote speakers, academics and practitioners made for a really stimulating 2 days) Thanks to AHRA and all the support of QUB for allowing us to host the conference!
Stockholm visit
As part of Fatale's Feminist Futures lecture and workshop series I was invited to present the work of TF and PS2 in a presentation called: 'Fabrication and Ms.Conduct.' (12th October 2011) In the follow-on workshop the students came up with some products driven by feminist agendas- very interesting
FATALE is a group of architects, based at the School of Architecture, KTH, pursuing research and education within, and through, feminist architecture theory and practice.
We are hoping that some collaborative work can emerge from these connections - so sincere thanks to those (Meike and Annika) who gave me this opportunity.
FATALE is a group of architects, based at the School of Architecture, KTH, pursuing research and education within, and through, feminist architecture theory and practice.
The following day on the 13th Oct, I was invited to give a kitchen talk as part of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists
-again on work of PS2 and TF - this time to a wide range of artists, architects, designers and curators. IASPIS is a fascinating organization and I felt very welcomed.
We are hoping that some collaborative work can emerge from these connections - so sincere thanks to those (Meike and Annika) who gave me this opportunity.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Ballykinler Village Fair
PS2 is organising the Ballykinler Village Fair for the 28th May 2011. This is part of an ongoing relationship with Anne Marie Dillon (artist) and the Ballykinler community that was documented as part of the Rhyzome network. More recently QUB architecture students worked on a project for the community as part of the Street Society Project. - the resultant work on Beach Huts has opened up discussions at community level and with external organizations about the relationship of the community to the beach and the neighboring army barracks
Monday, April 4, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Live Projects Colloquium, 25 March 2011, Queen's University Belfast
Live Projects Colloquium was a success - not only because of Jame's great skills in organising the event but also in the quality of people who attended and the level of discussion and insight they brought to the subject. From this we will be doing a themed issue of the Journal of education in the Built Environment and hope to build towards a larger output that collates some of the thoughts of the group on Friday.
A most collaborative and pleasant day!
For images see link
A most collaborative and pleasant day!
For images see link
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Trans-Local-Act
The Rhyzom Project has just published 'Trans-Local-Act: Cultural Practices within and Across' edited by Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou, Nishat Awan.
PS2 (pssquared) contributed one of the sections and is one of the sites of distribution for the publication - date of launch to be confirmed.
The publication will also be downloadable from the Rhyzom website
see press release
PS2 (pssquared) contributed one of the sections and is one of the sites of distribution for the publication - date of launch to be confirmed.
The publication will also be downloadable from the Rhyzom website
see press release
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Tactility Factory Surfaces to feature at Innovation Future Zone at Ecobuild
The Technology Strategy Board, Modern Built Environment KTN and EPSRC are joining forces to bring their Innovation future zone competition back to Ecobuild for a second year. The Zone will showcase shortlisted entries of new or near-to-market technologies relevant to the priority areas of energy efficiency, refurbishment, climate change adaptation and process efficiency, and the winning entry will be announced on the final day of Ecobuild.
Tactility Factory surfaces were shortlisted and some samples will be on display at ECOBUILD, London 1st - 3rd March 2011
Tactility Factory surfaces were shortlisted and some samples will be on display at ECOBUILD, London 1st - 3rd March 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Live Projects Colloquium, 25 March 2011, Queen's University Belfast
Live Projects 2011 invites academics and teachers in architecture, built environment and design disciplines to a one day colloquium about the use of live projects in higher education.
A live project in architectural education may be defined as a teaching project that brings students of architecture into contact with one or more aspects of the reality of architectural practice: a real client, a real timeline and a real outcome that is of value to the client. Established as an adaptation of the studio-based model of architectural education, their origins lie in nineteen-fifties’ experiments in the university-based architectural education. Contemporary UK live projects are increasingly cited as developing broader skill-sets in their students than traditional studio based projects, often drawing reference from design/build or service learning projects in North America. Yet despite their established use in architectural education, live projects remain under theorised, with primarily descriptive rather than analytical research.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words accompanied by a summary CV should be submitted no later than 21 January 2011 to: liveprojects2011@qub.ac.uk
see blog for further details
A live project in architectural education may be defined as a teaching project that brings students of architecture into contact with one or more aspects of the reality of architectural practice: a real client, a real timeline and a real outcome that is of value to the client. Established as an adaptation of the studio-based model of architectural education, their origins lie in nineteen-fifties’ experiments in the university-based architectural education. Contemporary UK live projects are increasingly cited as developing broader skill-sets in their students than traditional studio based projects, often drawing reference from design/build or service learning projects in North America. Yet despite their established use in architectural education, live projects remain under theorised, with primarily descriptive rather than analytical research.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words accompanied by a summary CV should be submitted no later than 21 January 2011 to: liveprojects2011@qub.ac.uk
see blog for further details
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Cultures that support 'doing' rather than 'writing' or 'capturing' seem to fail to register their worth - unless of course another culture writes about it
or unless the media through which the action is carried out is in itself easily transferable, exportable, downloadable, searchable. - (books, images, images of objects)
I suspect this is where in a e-connected world - the opportunity to see within the action (rather than at it's capturable format) is growing.
One concern of this blog is therefore to make 'actions' as 'searchable' and 'exportable' as traditional captured forms, hence giving them equal credence.
or unless the media through which the action is carried out is in itself easily transferable, exportable, downloadable, searchable. - (books, images, images of objects)
I suspect this is where in a e-connected world - the opportunity to see within the action (rather than at it's capturable format) is growing.
One concern of this blog is therefore to make 'actions' as 'searchable' and 'exportable' as traditional captured forms, hence giving them equal credence.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
first post - 2011
Feeling the need to have one place where activities come through.
Working across diverse platforms, methods, contexts, cultures and disciplinary languages with a wide range of people for different reasons is inspiring but the challenge is to keep some sort of core approach. We will see what emerges when those activities / networks are fed through this one channel.
Working across diverse platforms, methods, contexts, cultures and disciplinary languages with a wide range of people for different reasons is inspiring but the challenge is to keep some sort of core approach. We will see what emerges when those activities / networks are fed through this one channel.
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