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Place as Carrier of Cultural Memory.
In How Modernity Forgets, Connerton describes cultural memory as being carried in one of two ways, as a locus or as a memorial. Filtering and selecting historical events, a memorial immortalises one...
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Concrete Stool.
This piece was created to attempt to solve two problems of non-place. It creates a seat to allow people to inhabit the non-place. It also alters the sensory profile to both evoke and create memories,...
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Lavender Bench.
A development of the concrete stool, this bench allows inhabitation of generic streets. It emmanates the smell of lavender, cast into the concrete, the tactile qualities of which alter the sensory...
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The Breakdown of Place.
Study drawing bringing together all the elements investigated over previous weeks; the transition of cities from place to non-place, the occupation of streets, the way places store memories, the...
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Brockholes.
Adam Khan’s nature reserve mediates between man and nature by floating on a lake. A detailed review written for my recent humanities module will follow shortly.
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The future city will be everywhere and nowhere, and it will be a city so greatly different from the ancient city or any city of today that we will probably fail to recognise its coming as the city at...
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The Registrar.
The Registrar is worried by a growing cultural amnesia, generic city centres erase the loci which contain the past, causing the forgetting of histories. He does not want to lose touch with Wakefield’s...
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Briefing Document.
Initial version of the Briefing Document for Project 3, hand bound using the Secret Belgian Binding with a plywood cover. The Registrar is worried by a growing cultural amnesia, generic city centres...
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Resilience.
The latest Pamphlet Architecture is very relevant to current studio investigations. Dealing with Resilience, Stasus take the reader on a journey through a series of projects. Our cities are constantly...
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