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Archive for February, 2008
early thoughts
Posted in Drawings on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Drawing the brief
Posted in Making, Maps on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The brief begins to take shape… Things are made in a workshop - tables, chairs, sculptures, smaller things, bigger things, and also coffins. The workshop is connected to an undertakers (or perhaps the joiners/carpenters are the undertakers).
Part of the project then is about how our society deals with death; about mourning, remembering and going on living. Part is [...]
Casting Spital Hill
Posted in Making, Provisional Construction on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The extrodinarily heavy site model (this section has used approximately 20kg of plaster of paris) is beginning to take shape. The slice through the lower part of the model is the path of ‘Fiery Jack’s Tunnel’ which runs from the site of the former Wicker station to the former Bridgehouses station. The section photographed is one of [...]
Life, Death, and Provisional Construction
Posted in Provisional Construction on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Provisional: existing for the present
but open to the future
and aware of the past
Provisional construction can be designing with an awareness of temporality and the possibility of change in use, appearance and strategy. A design for a construction is not something that becomes fixed in time. Like a map is like a snapshot, in reality an [...]
a longwinded statement of provisional construction
Posted in Provisional Construction on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thinking about life, death, health and provisional construction I started drawing a timeline of healthcare in Spital Hill, Sheffield, England and the World. I think this is going to be something that I continue as I go along - a bit of a provisional construction perhaps.
