Easter Work 2010

Books:

Catterall, C. (1999) Food: design and culture. London : Laurence King in association with Glasgow Festival Company.
Petrini, C. (1949) Slow food: the case for taste. New York, N.Y. ; Chichester : Columbia University Press.
Anderson, A. & Anderson, P. (2007) Prefab prototypes: site-specific design for offsite construction. New York : Princeton Architectural Press.
Herbers, J. (2004) Prefab modern. Houston, Tex. : HDI.
Werthmann, C. (1964) Green roof: a case study. New York : Princeton Architectural Press.
Harwood, E & Powers, A. (2008) Housing the twentieth century nation. London : Twentieth Century Society.
Pullen, T. (2008) Simply sustainable homes. Ellington : Ovolo
Hamm, B. & Muttagi, P.K. (1998) Sustainable development and the future of cities. London : Intermediate Technology Publications
Clement, G. & Rahm, P. (2007) Environ(ne)ment approaches for tomorrow = manieres d'agir pour demain. Milan : Skira

Exhibitions:

Various. (2010) Seeing Myself See. London: Wellcome Collection. 24 May 2010.
Various. (2010) Grace Kelly: Style Icon. London: Victoria and Albert Museum. 17 April - 26 September 2010

My current reading is looking different types of housing and house of currently un-utilised spaces. There is a lot of very interesting work already going on, the case study about the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) retrofiting a green roof atop its Washington, DC, brownstone headquarters was really interesting. The space (3300-square-foot) takes all ecologically issues into consideration, yet is welcoming and interesting in its design.

Bee Matrix

Saturday's midget adventure took me to the Wellcome Collection, one of my most favourite destinations in London, where i saw bees being taught how to see colour... Lots of interactive bits. Can't believe I didn't notice before the Garden of Earthly Delights painting in Medicine Man. Medicine now, great as ever, my favourite is still, 'SENSE' by Annie Cattrell, Transparent resin and rapid prototyped resin, 2001-03.




I had a wonderful cup of tea, slice of cake, and bought an amazing book in the book shop. All round lovely day.

OUTLINE OF SUMMER TERM RESEARCH DEFINITION TASKS

Define Question

- Research/Evaluate interests
- Define Main/Core Interest
- Define Focus/Real Question

Plan Research Strategy

- Confirm Research Methodology
- Verify Contact needs
- Verify Support Needs
- Verify Skill Needs
- Verify Location/s Needs
- Verify Budget Needs
- Verify Time Needs

Confirm Research Strategy

- Calculate From the Above What Can Be Done And When it Needs to be Done

Create Artifact and Give Dimension to Question/s

- Explore Metaphor
- Explore Analogy
- Clarify Core/Sub Questions

Action Research Using Artifacts

- Establish a Dialogue with Gatekeepers
- Invite Negative Criticism
- Notice and Make Use of Opportunity/ies
- Maintain Balance Between Commitment to your Thesis/Theory/Question and an Open Mind

Develop Better Question

- Analyse Feedback From Actions Identified Above
- Learn From What You Have Done Wrong
- Reinforce and Extend What you are Doing Right

Develop Better Artifact

- Respond to Criticism
- Clarify Sub-Questions
- Acknowledge Support/Skill/Resource/Budget Needs

Develop Research Strategy

- Confirm New/Better Sources of Feedback
- Return to Negative Sources of Feedback with Better Rationale/Question & Artifact
- Develop Your Research Techniques

Roadside Picnic and WHY

Our picnic project is progressing slightly slower than i had hoped, with certain members of the team coming up with completely inappropriate ideas, and wasting the very little time we have. We have our narrative now! Uncontrolability. Surprise. Opposite system to/process to cooking. Leads to...

RANDOM

which encompasses, the diversity of the students, the MADS projects we are given, the combinations, the randomness of the tutors and even why we have all taken the path to MADS...

The EXPERIENCE..
Channelled Randomness
twister dial to spin and chose different components to your mouthful
could do sushi, fondue etc
i thought maybe get sheets of seaweed or rice pancakes, and then lots of different ingredients and sauces for them
each components on a different coloured plate/bowl
each person get 3/4 spins, would have a few dials to ensure a number of people could experience at the same time, they spin the dial and depending where it lands build their own pancake/seaweed roll.

We also looked at WHY we were doing our projects. I great exercise where we wrote down and swapped our reasons with other students.