Theme Projects

Urban Tranquility - Noise and Air Pollution

Urban Trees and Biodiversity

 Context sensitivity 

Space and Place

Limitless Creativity

“Geography… has meant different things to different people at different times and in different places.’’ (Livingstone)

Exploring space and place, opens up new possibilities and views while entrapping us at the same time in many different ways by the unexpected reactions people have in different places at different times.

 Made up spaces which become many time places related to our memories, desires having their own identity..

Trying to capture and express the feelings about different places where human interaction is taking place.

Exploring ideas, concepts, questions, and practices that examine the past, describe the present, and imagine the future.

Context matters. Creating places and spaces should enrich the lives of the people who use them. Every tree which is planned, every installation, every building can and should engage or contradict with history, beliefs and needs of a particular place and time. Place is to landscape as meaning is to language. Recognition, memory, choice, sharing with others, giving significance; all these contribute to the process of creation.

Materials matter. Have meaning, can evoke feelings, connotations and address deeper levels of our understanding. Putting materials to best use involves an appreciation of their innate sensory qualities as well as their technical potential.

People matter. Looking at the way society orders and organizes space, it’s easy to understand its values and principles. Usually people relate their desires and fears with specific places. It’s easy to like and love places that have been already loved, such as parks, plazas, monuments etc. Places that give us inspiration, energy, calmness which are related to our memories, or experiences that will become memories. But also neglected places where life is isolated or barely exists.

Sadly, we isolate, forget and hide away what we consider outcast, inferior, weaker, dangerous and useless in abandoned spaces. Those are the ones that should still give us inspiration through their energy and wisdom.

Ezra Pound said that beauty likes to keep away from the public glare. It likes to find a neglected or abandoned place, for it knows that it is only here it will meet the kind of light that respects its shape, dignity and nature.

But when does creativity and creation, once started, stop? Does it end when humans stop using or paying attention, when there is no more function for these spaces?

Through historical and cultural research and the collective memory of those neglected places we should recollect forgotten memories to create new narratives through re-interpretation and adaptation. Revive those neglected places that people choose to avoid, and the loss of the many benefits that come from cared-for green spaces.

Limitless creativity Part I

Part II

The Return

I assume, it's been a long time...

Let's start by delving into the past. 

The Line - The Movie 

The journey of the Line through space, materials, time...


Later on..

Inspiration

Final Design

Design With Nature

The Line - Group 2 Project

EXPLORING A LINE IN THE URBAN LANDSCAPE


Group 2


A3 Survey Book

• Topographical- X- sectional Survey  - Michaela Stevens - Zoi Antonaki
• Geology and soils - Sophia Stoyanova
• Planting and Vegetation - Danny Beever - Paddy Clarke
• Transport routes: bus, train, tube, bicycle, river, taxi, footpaths,
pedestrian streets, pedestrian flows - Hien Phan - Eirini Giannopoulou
• Vehicle Movement/ Flow characteristics - Arlene Decker
• Organic forms - Sofie Holst - Ed Gant
• Climatic Factors: Macro-climatic/ Micro- climatic/ Pollution Levels - Rowan Case
• Materials Palette, Textures, Colours and Character - Francesco Giraldo - Theo Kidman
• Population - Alexandra Toneva
• Photographic Survey: related to group survey topics - Sofie Host - Ed Gant


Graphic Producer: Arlene Decker


Short Film
Staring: Group 2 
Editting: Michaela Stevens, Zoi Antonaki, Theo Kidman




Team meetings are held every Wensdays and Friday in strange places such as Hadlow's Design Studio and North Studio in Avery Hill.... Far away from the Line. There have been created accounts on Skydrive and YouTube, in order to make the communication within the group easier.


The communication so far has been successful. Most of the people have chosen tasks that are away from what we have been used to see them in order to explore different skills. Everyone is involved in each of the tasks by sharing his/ her own skills / ideas / informations.


Tomorrow is going to be a very crucial day. We are going to see all the work that we have produced so far... and walk the line straight to the final week before the presentation!


..we 'll be just fine..       

Project 5 Space and Layers

4 Expressive Collages

Earth

Fire

Wind

Water

My 'Fantastic Presentation' as required by Jamie

Wind : the model

The important part of the conceptual model showing the context of the books