Design Research Dissertation, Epilogue

Reflective Epilogue.

RETURN OF THE PASSIONATE OBSERVER Sophie LinnĂŠa Rose Research Led Design P30035 Design Research Dissertation Epilogue 13.01.2014

Design Research REFLECTIVE EPILOGUE

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Design Research REFLECTIVE EPILOGUE

The research undertaken looks at the possibilities of architecture as a form of resistance and transformation through the practice of ‘vandalising’ buildings inspired by Dutch artists Asger Jorn’s vandalised kitsch paintings, however this practice of radical negative action in the urban space is only proposed as a instrument to construct a critique of certain contemporary architectural trends and aims to increase the consciousness of the individual within the urban environment. The proposed practice of intervening with the spectacle of the urban is that will provide for the initial stages of the design to follow. The reactionary milieu generated by a radicalized urban détournement will provide for a narrative which will lay the foundations for the design project. Narrative is an important design process, recognized by the institution or architecture, however, producing a narrative out of chaos and observation will hopefully encourage an honest design proposal for the benefit of the public and this process will hopefully liberate designers from the tick-box methods currently used in the urban landscape.

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It will be important to record these constructed instances that challenge the illusion of the city in order to aid an accurate design brief and therefore the intention is to collect information using trans disciplinary methods which can also help to create new and inspirational perspectives. Film will be a primary technique of exploring the city environment and the behaviour of it’s users and the tool allows for the opportunity to develop new ideas as the process of re-evaluating collected footage can initiate discoveries through a sequence of recorded experience.

The design itself will aim to challenge the very idea of ‘public’. The type of environment envisaged by the design program will, no doubt, be a unique environment which allows the opportunity for the general public to move beyond their current spectator position and in fact have a direct influence on their environment, and thus allowing the public to contrast this proposed environment with the contemporary image of coordinated urban life. The project will aim to inject desire and creativity into the banal city which in itself is a form of resistance to controlling systems, and of course, the space aims to be flexible and low maintenance so that there is no need for an organized system of authority to penetrate the area.

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Design Research REFLECTIVE EPILOGUE

It is encouraging to imagine the possibility of positive action and benefit developing from the negative intervention of dÊtournement and that part of Asger Jorn’s practice can be introduced into the architectural process to re-evaluate and redirect space design philosophy.

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Week 1 Tutorial: 27th January 2014.

Organise and propose ideas for the creation of a narrative as design process.

Week 2 Tutorial: 3rd February 2014.

Have planned and carried out a dĂŠtournement on site and reflect in tutorial possible ideas for design.

Week 3 Tutorial: 10th February 2014.

Further develop design brief.

Week 4 Tutorial: 17th February 2014.

Further develop design brief.

Week 5 Tutorial: 24th February 2014.

Further develop design brief. Begin experimental models and resent site analysis data.

Week 6 Tutorial: 3rd March 2014.

Sketch designs through sketch drawing and modelmaking.

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Design Research WORKPLAN

Week 7 Tutorial: 10th March 2014.

Develop sketches and models for design proposal.

Week 8 Design Reviews: 17th March 2014.

Review.

Week 9 Tutorial: 24th March 2014.

Develop drawings and strategy considering feedback from review.

Week 10 Interim Reviews of DRAFT RLD Project: 31st March 2014.

Further development of drawings.

Week 11 No Tutorial: 21st April 2014.

Develop drawings. Printing.

Week 12 Tutorial: 28th April 2014.

Final RLD Project hand in by 3pm. One hard copy.

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