Ma 2014 15 by University for the Creative Arts MA Architecture/MA Interior Design

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MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 UNIT 1.2: Exploratory Practice [CARCFAFAM]

2 Sir John Soaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum, London

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 STUDIO OVERVIEW: Contents

follies of mind and matter HANDBOOK CONTENTS THEMATIC OVERVIEW 03 ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT 04 METHOD OVERVIEW 05

UNITS 1.2_SOANE’S CURIOSITIES (exploratory practice) i_ SOANE’S CURIOSITIES 7 ii_ INDUCTION/THE FEAST OF FOOLS 8 iii_ SITE VISIT 9 iv_ THE GENERATIVE FOLLY 10 AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES 11 2.1_FIELD FEEDBACK (project development) 12 AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES 13 3.1_KNOWING (final project) 14 AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES 15 YEAR SCHEDULE SEMESTER 1 17 SEMESTER 2 21

SEMESTER 3 25

REFERENCE MATERIAL

Conollys Folly, The Obelisk, Ireland, 1740

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 STUDIO OVERVIEW: Thematic

follies of mind and matter THEMATIC OVERVIEW Folly, error and the act of failure are typically seen in negative terms. Contemporary consumer society appears to have little means of valuing traits or qualities that have no direct productive outcome. Symptomatically, knowledge is becoming more regularly accessed as subject of absolutist reference, rather than being understood as the outcome of conjecture and hard won experience. In the risk averse built environment we now commonly face triumphs of certainty or ‘firmness’ of delivery over speculative place making. In this vein, architectural follies are a historic building typology now generalised as being ‘constructed primarily for ornament, but suggesting some other purpose’. Such a definition implies a lack of ‘utility’ in favour of whimsy. It suggests that both the building and the act of making it is of reduced consequence. We contend the opposite; that the act of constructing a folly was a unique opportunity. Released from common constraints of function, the architect of folly is empowered to experiment and manipulate aspects of observer perception, subverting preconceived spatial couplings of cause and effect by sleight of hand. These ‘tricks’ are careful, explorative tests of architectural configurations recorded in built form. As we explore follies, unknown buildings or well known haunts, we compare our cognitive expectations to our perceptual experiences. What we preconceive often varies from reality, forming a spatial performance. In such a performance, decoration or ornament becomes not simply an minor surface treatment but influential spatial actors. A folly’s architect hopes that the mental interrogation of decoration and other constituent moves of a designed trickery will engender experiential ‘delight’ in an occupant. It is of value for us, as Architects, to explore and understand more deeply how such ‘delight’ occurs. During the next year, we will explore how common patterns, phenomena and performances might be reconstructed by the designer and observer, forming mimetic cultures of kinesis, animism, error and unexpected meaning. We will repeatedly test this process, constructing a series of follies at varying scales. Each failure of folly will inform a future, more refined experiment and suggest how to guide the production of artefacts or the crafting of objects and real spaces that seek to engage their users. Our built follies will bring us closer to our primary question; how people construct understandings of the world and how architects might manipulate these processes to create novelty and a sensation of wonder.

FOLLY: 1.1 [mass noun] Lack of good sense; foolishness. 1.2 [count noun] A foolish act, idea, or practice. 2. A costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, especially a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park. 3. A theatrical revue with glamorous female performers. origin from Old French folie ‘madness’, in modern French also ‘delight, favourite dwelling’ 3

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 UNIT 1.2: Exploratory Practice

ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK Each unit will be assessed on a final portfolio submission in the form of a completed project output. Portfolios should demonstrate exemplar ordering and presentation of your individual work. They will be based upon completion of the three units and all assignments outlined in this handbook. Assessment will be based upon clearly identified criteria that are mapped to the learning outcomes itemised in the unit briefings. Formative feedback will be provided at each review whilst summative feedback will be given at the end of units 1.2 and 3.1. Unit 1.2 has a credit value of 30, whilst units 2.1 and 3.1 each provide a maximum value of 60 credits towards the year total of 180 credits. TEACHING AND LEARNING SUPPORT Your tutors are Sam McElhinney [sam@mudarchitecture.com] and David Di Duca [david@batstudio.co.uk]. Sam McElhinney is the MA Course Leader and should be contacted in the first instance. Linda Griffiths the campus study skills advisor is available for consultation and can be located in the School of Architecture room G0.9, you can contact her on 01227 817 338 or email- lgriffiths@ucreative.ac.uk myUCA, UCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s virtual learning environment, will be utilised to support the delivery of this course. The project brief, timetables and lecture handouts will be posted there. To access myUCA; on the student web portal click on myUCA then enter your username and password (same as your IT username). Tarot Cards: The Ruler, The Traveller, The Devil

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 STUDIO OVERVIEW: Methods

follies of mind and matter METHOD OVERVIEW - THE REAL THING During this course you will be freed to identify your personal lines of enquiry, beginning with observations drawn from natural phenomena, making processes or behaviours that intrigue. We will mis-use contemporary technologies, referencing current work in the fields of phenomenology, neuroscience, robotics, material studies, art and interactive installations. We will borrow from a long history of artistic representation, narrative performance and craft making. We will hack into consumer culture and manufactured products as and when it suits our agenda. Our work will speculate upon possible outcomes and alternate realities that have been grown from familiar contemporary technologies; but we will do so through an assimilation and expert application of making skills and artistic craft knowledge that is readily accessible in the wider UCA community. Throughout the year, hands on, 1:1 scale prototyping will be used to design and fabricate phenomic devices and interactive installations of increasing scale and complexity. These will be used as a means with which to iteratively and intensively refine distinctive motive performances, patterns of behaviour, novel forms of communication or interaction and manufactured artefacts. You will be expected to demonstrate expert knowledge of your chosen field of interest and complete mastery of your performative outcomes. Much of your work will exhibit a time based narrative element. It is expected that you will record and document every stage of your making and testing; explaining your manufacturing processes as physical cognition where error or failure is an accepted part of learning. These records will form an important element of your peer recognition and each project portfolio. In tandem to your prototyping work, you will be encouraged to speculatively draw, paint or simulate as a parallel means of representation of design thought. These exercises will act as an important feedback loop; cognitively dissecting your built artifacts whilst informing and forming subsequent design steps. In so doing, you will learn to extrapolate the outcomes of your prototyping to provoke and disseminate dialogue on larger scale, contextual interventions.

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 UNIT 1.2: Exploratory Practice

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MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 UNIT 1.2: Exploratory Practice

follies of mind and matter UNIT 1.2 - SOANE’S CURIOSITIES [introduction] This first project will act as a vehicle for you to discover and engage the wide range of practical making skills that reside within the Canterbury UCA campus. It begins with a series of group assignments that run through your induction period, before we focus on the main individual assignment of the unit (see below). In completing this unit you will gain a working knowledge of CSA’s digital fabrication suite but are also expected to explore the campus workshop and seek out connections within the fine art and other neighbouring facilities. By iteratively making, failing and remaking you will develop profound and inherent knowledge in areas such as mechanics, illusion, phenomena or materiality. Alongside this making you will simulate and model, painting and drawing either digitally or in analogue form; comparison of your simulated and real work will require you to examine the often fraught relationship between planning and doing.

UNIT 1.2i - INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT - SOANE’S CURIOSITIES [automate and illude] As an outcome of the first semester you will produce a portable ‘curiosity box’ device that might become a contemporary artefact to be curated within the Soane Museum. These will be simple newtonian and sensory objects; trompe-l’œil, automata, unpredictable pattern makers or haptic pieces; but they should intrigue by hiding the exact mechanics of how they deliver their effect. They are opportunities to test and explore contextual architectural themes that you observe within the Soane museum Begin by recording select phenomena or illusions from the Soane and re-make them to delight an audience. Scale of proposals:

1:1 to fit within a 400mm cube of space.

Project outcomes:

A beautifully constructed, contextual ‘Curiosity Box’ artefact

A location drawing that situates your object within the Soane Museum

A public exhibition of the completed collected devices.

Portfolio outcomes:

Online & paper recording of making & show of the Curiosity Boxes

Learning outcomes:

Introduction to simulation methodologies

Proficiency in making skills

Knowledge of areas of illusion or perception

Timescale:

September 2014 - January 2015

Untitled, Bridget Riley

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 UNIT 1.2: Exploratory Practice

follies of mind and matter UNIT 1.2ii - INDUCTION WEEK - induction tasks - [15/09 - 19/09] Welcome to the MA Architecture. We are pleased to welcome you to the Canterbury School and hope you are looking forward to an enjoyable, successful year. Below is your timetable for key induction events. A course handbook will be distributed at 14.00 on Monday 17th September at our first group meeting. In preparation for this please complete your first assignment; the brief is below. Here a second assignment of team fabrication will be set; this is an important preparation task that will form part of your work this term.

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10.00 -11.00

11.00 - 11.30

11.30 -12.30

14.00-15.00

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MArch STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

FAB LAB GROUND FLOOR G BLOCK

WORKSHOP

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WELCOME TO UCA DRINKS

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WELCOME TO COURSE + HEALTH & SAFETY INTRO

FAB LAB INDUCTION

MA ARCHITECTURE INTRODUCTION

RECEPTION AREA

GABOR STARK SAM MCELHINNEY ALLAN ATLEE

CHRIS SETTLE

SAM MCELHINNEY

VARIOUS

WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION

SIMON NIMMO

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14.00 -15.30

11.00 - 12.00

13.00-18.00

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10.00 - 17.00

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CRAGG LECTURE THEATRE

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RECEPTION

WORKSHOP

ENROLMENT BRING ID & QUALIFICATION CERTIFICATES

SECOND ASSIGNMENT FABRICATION ROUND ONE

UCA DROP IN WELCOME FAYRE

SECOND ASSIGNMENT FABRICATION ROUND TWO

VARIOUS

SAM MCELHINNEY BEN WESTACOTT

VARIOUS

SAM MCELHINNEY BEN WESTACOTT

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LIBRARY & STUDENT SERVICES IT INDUCTION VARIOUS

FRIDAY 19/09

TUESDAY 16/09

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THURSDAY 18/09

MONDAY 15/09

On Thursday 25th September we will be in London for a walking tour and a visit to your first semester site. The following week we will be running an intensive fabrication workshop. Details of these two events will follow shortly.

[COURSE ENROLMENT CODE: CARCFAFAM MA Architecture]

GROUP ASSIGNMENT - the feast of fools - [due Wednesday 24/09] Design and construct a delightful plate of food; savoury or sweet. Your offering and any implements required to eat it must be brought to the group meeting in the MA studio space at 14.00 on the 17/09. The plate should provide a small taster (or nibble) serving for a total of six people. It must be ‘cooked’ and relate to your personal tastes in some way. Be prepared to talk briefly about the reasons for your choice of recipe as you serve it to the group; to tell us why it delights you and why you think that others will like it. Briefly document your preparation process for portfolio purposes.

The Peasant Wedding, Pieter Brueghel the Younger

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 UNIT 1.2: Exploratory Practice

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On the 25th September we will spend the day in London, including a visit to the Soane Museum, your site for unit 1.2. Make your own way to London. We will meet at 10.30 the south end of St Pancras terminal building, on the upper concourse. Assemble by the bronze statue next to Carluccios’ restaurant. Do not be late; we won’t have time to wait. The first off peak train of the day is the 9.23, Canterbury West - St Pancras. One day return will cost just over £30 full fare (around 30% off with student cards)

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IMPORTANT: You MUST be on time for the Soane Museum booking at 14:00. It will be your first semester site and this is an invaluable opportunity to visit it!!!!

UNIT 1.2iii SITE VISIT - urban explorations and the soane museum - london, 25/09 - 12.2km - 10.30-18.30

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- Barbican (walkthrough including highwalks)

ESSENTIALS: Money for food/nibbles/coffee/other Suitable clothing (hats, coats, umbrellas if wet) Practical comfortable footwear (no stilettos!) Mobile phones - Sam is on 07709 488689 Sketchbooks, notebooks, cameras NB: London is a busy international city. Take the usual precautions you would when visiting such a place!

km_10-11 - New Change (rooftop) km_12+ - Millenium Bridge (walkover) - Tate Turbine Hall (free shows in Boiler rooms)

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MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 UNIT 1.2: Exploratory Practice

follies of mind and matter UNIT 1.2iv - COLLABORATIVE BUILD - the generative folly - [runs 18/09 until 03/10] In collaboration with Hanif Kara of AKT2 Engineers, you will be lead participants in the construction of a full scale pavilion on the lawn outside CSA. As part of an extended workshop you will competitively prepare design proposals for the assembly of a series of geometric building blocks into a novel structure. These will be reviewed and critiqued and a final proposal selected. Subsequently you will work with other members of the architecture department and the wider university to construct this proposal by the workshop finale.

PREPARATION PERIOD

We will begin to fabricate the necessary building blocks for the pavilion on Thursday 18th September, after your formal enrolment. You will have to work as a team and with UCA technicians to complete the mass preparation of 150 simple modular structural elements. This will provide you with an immediate introduction to CSAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s making culture and act as an advanced induction into the facilities available to you in the year ahead.

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WHEN

WHERE WHAT

DESIGN & BUILD PERIOD

Friday 19/09

Monday 22/09

13.00-18.00

10.00-17.00

WORKSHOP

LONDON

WORKSHOP

MODULE FABRICATION ROUND ONE

MODULE FABRICATION ROUND TWO

MODULE FABRICATION ROUND THREE

WALKING TOUR [see separate brief]

MODULE FABRICATION ROUND FOUR

DATE

WHO

WHEN

Thursday 18/09

WHERE

WHAT

WHO

DESCRIPTION

SAM MCELHINNEY BEN WESTACOTT

Thursday 25/09

355.0

45.0

800.0

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DRAWN

Friday 26/09

SCALE

CHECKED

SAM MCELHINNEY

355.0

10.00-17.00

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CHECKED

SAM MCELHINNEY BEN WESTACOTT

45.0

PROJECT No.

SAM MCELHINNEY BEN WESTACOTT

Monday 29/09

Tuesday 30/09 Wednesday 01/10

Wednesday 01/10

Thursday 02/10 Friday 03/10

Friday 03/10

09.00-10.30

11.00-17.00

10.00-17.00

15.00-18.00

10.00-17.00

15.00-18.00

LAWN

FOYER G-FLOOR G BLOCK

IAD STUDIO G14A 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

FOYER G-FLOOR G BLOCK

WORKSHOP INTRO

DESIGN CHARETTE

INITIAL TEST OF MODULE ASSEMBLY

INTERIM REVIEW

FINAL BUILD

FINAL REVIEW

HANIF KARA ALLAN ATLEE

ADAIM SERTZU JEROEN JANSSEN SAM MCELHINNEY

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA BEN WESTACOTT

ALLAN ATLEE ADAIM SERTZU JEROEN JANSSEN

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA BEN WESTACOTT

HANIF KARA ALLAN ATLEE

TITLE

CAD FILENAME

DRAWING No.

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 UNIT 1.2: Exploratory Practice

AIMS The aims of this unit are: A1. To enable you to locate your practice in relation to appropriate fields of research and enquiry and develop your in-depth specialist understanding of these in relation to your own research. A2. To introduce and develop creative practice methodologies in relation to theoretical investigation. A3. To introduce and develop specialist knowledge, technical skills and processes and to begin to explore experimental approaches to your work A4.To develop your ability to critically appraise your own work and that of others through regular critiques and student forums A5. To support you in developing your project proposal providing a framework for the planning and implementation of your research within clear practical and theoretical parameters.

LEARNING OUTCOMES On satisfactory completion of the unit you will have: LO1. Demonstrated specific knowledge of research methods, critical theory and historical and contemporary practices relevant to the discipline. LO2. Demonstrated an ability to recognise potential areas for investigation, formulate research questions and identify appropriate strategies and methods of enquiry for further development through creative practice. LO3. Conducted investigation through experimentation developing an appropriate level of technical skill. LO4. Developed an ability to present creative work as a response to a research context in a clear and coherent manner. LO5. Demonstrated an ability to set goals, manage workloads and meet deadlines.

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 UNIT 2.1:Project Development

follies of mind and matter UNIT 2.1 - FIELD FEEDBACK [try again, fail again, fail better] In the second semester we will introduce you to cybernetic notions of design through the mechanism of the feedback loop. By attempting to produce deployable objects or installations that appear to sense or act intelligently, we will examine the extent to which we, as cognitive observers, project our own agency onto our environment. The outcome will be a series of built micro-follies that extend your understanding of how we engage with and conceptualise the built environment. These systems might be technically refined, with sensory understandings of their context and ‘goals’ which they seek to achieve, rather as a thermostat both monitors and heats or cools a room in an attempt to maintain a constant temperature state. Alternatively they might have material or detail sophistication or combine en-masse to demonstrate emergent cellular ‘intelligence’. They may be sensory, combining techniques of sound, light, movement, touch or taste, but should develop and extend your original curiosities. Each piece will be deployed within a specific, real, site that we will select together. They should filter responses to this context to inform projected or mapped outputs that the observer can engage with. To achieve these in a sophisticated manner, continue to explore your chosen themes through 1:1 iterative making and experimentation. Where necessary you will add skills in programming, electronics and control systems to suit specific project needs. Each step of your experimentation should be meticulously recorded as a designed, interventive act. Scale of proposals:

1:1 human scale intervention/installation.

Project outcomes:

A deployable dialogue device that maps or explores a particular context

Portfolio outcomes:

Online and video recording of making & final mapping

Detailed drawings and code/control/interaction system diagrams

Learning outcomes:

Introduction to coding and computational control methodologies

Proficiency in interactive installation design

Expertise in a specific area of illusion or perception

Timescale:

February 2015 - April 2015

Waterfall, Escher

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 UNIT 2.1:Project Development

AIMS The aims of this unit are: A1. To develop a critical and contextual understanding of the agreed project proposal. A2. To achieve conceptual clarity through experimental practice and research methods. A3. To utilise and gain further competency in the skills and processes required for the development of the project. A4. To research and develop the project proposal towards an interim outcome. A5. To develop as an independent researcher and practitioner. A6. To develop an understanding of theoretical concepts in relation to the project.

LEARNING OUTCOMES On satisfactory completion of the unit you will have: LO1. Engaged in experimental and exploratory processes in the development of your MA project, both practically and theoretically and critically reflecting on that process. LO2. Developed an advanced knowledge and use of materials, processes and techniques appropriate to the project proposal. LO3. Gained a clear understanding of the critical context of relevant contemporary practices and the particular significance within this of the individual research proposal. LO4. Developed writing and reading skills in the formulation and understanding of ideas. LO5. Presented your research in writing in a structured form, showing a clear and coherent series of arguments and themes. LO6. Demonstrated the ability to work independently, set goals, manage workloads and meet deadlines.

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 UNIT 3.1: Final Project

follies of mind and matter UNIT 3.1 - KNOWING [afford, adapt and contextualising intelligence] Once your physical crafting, experimental knowledge and technical control skills are sufficiently advanced you will propose large scale semi-permanent interventions. The delivery of these in a site location of your choosing will form the basis of both your final project assessment and the content of your end of year show. In developing their designs you should allow for a process of affordance or continual reinterpretation, including of established behavioural or material properties and the extent to which they can be re-designed to evolve into changing environmental understandings. As well as demonstrating your knowledge of design and artistic construction, you would at this point be expected to be versed in parallel contemporary themes of architectural significance, such as artificial intelligence, cognition, adaption, communication or emergence. From this knowledge base, you will aim to complete a high quality, site specific construction. This will draw upon, further develop and ultimately demonstrate the expertise developed within the MA grouping. Scale of proposals:

1:1 to fit within a 4000mm cube of space.

Project outcomes:

A pavilion, large scale installation or site specific intervention

Portfolio outcomes:

Online and video recording of mapping, making & final intervention

Detailed drawings and code/control/interaction system diagrams

Learning outcomes:

Proficiency in coding and computational control methodologies

Expertise in interactive design

Expertise in artistic making skills

Expertise in a specific area of illusion or perception

Timescale:

May 2015 - August 2015

Alternative Lanscape, Benoit PaillĂŠ

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 UNIT 3.1: Final Project

AIMS The aims of this unit are: A1. To consolidate and realise the MA project both practically and/or theoretically. A2. To demonstrate a personal and creative approach to research. A3. To enhance technical skills through the realisation of a major visual or written project. A4. To demonstrate concepts and ideas as a response to research, critical, practical and professional contexts. A5. To encourage and support the dissemination of research outcomes in appropriate professional and or public contexts.

LEARNING OUTCOMES On satisfactory completion of the unit you will have: LO1. Developed a rigorous and independent research project, which fully integrates theory and practice. LO2. Developed a rigorous and complex understanding of your MA project through critical evaluation and self-reflection. LO3. Developed an advanced understanding and use of, materials, processes, techniques and methods to a professional standard. LO4. Developed communication and presentation skills that allow you to demonstrate ideas in relation to research contexts. LO5. Demonstrated the ability to situate your MA project within a range of appropriate public/professional contexts. LO6. Demonstrated the ability to work independently, set goals, manage workloads and meet deadlines.

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 YEAR SCHEDULE: Doodle Page

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MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 YEAR SCHEDULE: Key Events

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WEEK THREE W/C 06/10/2014

WEEK TWO W/C 29/09/2014

WEEK ONE W/C 22/09/2014

WEEK ZERO W/C 15/09/2014

SCHEDULE SEMESTER ONE [weeks 0-3] WHAT

STUDIO INTRO

ENROLMENT

FABRICATION WORKSHOP

WHEN

15/09/14 10.00 - 16.00

18/09/14 11.00 - 12.00

18-19/09/14

WHERE

SEE ENROLMENT TIMETABLE

WHO

VARIOUS

WHAT

FABRICATION WORKSHOP

SITE VISIT

FABRICATION WORKSHOP

WHEN

22/09/14

25/09/14 10.30-18.00

26/09/14

TITLE

FOLLY FABRICATION WORKSHOP

URBAN WANDERING Walking tour of City of London & SITE VISIT

FOLLY FABRICATION WORKSHOP

WHERE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

Meet at St Pancras Station, 10.30am

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

VARIOUS

SAM MCELHINNEY

VARIOUS

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

WHEN

29/09/14 09.00-11.00

29/09/14 - 03/10/13

WORKSHOP INTRO

FOLLY FABRICATION WORKSHOP

FOYER G-FLOOR G BLOCK

VARIOUS

WHO

HANIF KARA

VARIOUS

WHAT

SEMINAR

REVIEW

MULTISTORY

WHEN

07/10/14 14.00 - 16.00

09/10/14 10.00-17.00

09/10/14 18.00-19.00

ALL DESIGN

UNIT 1.2 MAIN PROJECT IDEAS PIN-UP & FORMATIVE REVIEW

PETCHA KUTCHA What happened next?

CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

FOYER/CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WILL ALSOP

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

CSA ALUMNI

TITLE WHERE

TITLE

WHERE WHO

LONDON FIELD WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE IS ELECTIVE BUT HIGHLY ADVISED FABRICATION WORKSHOP IS A COMPULSORY GROUP TASK

PLEASE ALSO SEE UNIT 1.2 GROUP ASSIGNMENT 03 BRIEF FOR FULL DETAILS AND PROGRAMME OF THE FABRICATION WORKSHOP

JOINT CRIT WITH IAD YEAR 3 VERBAL FORMATIVE FEEDBACK PROVIDED

SEMINAR DESIGN STUDIO FIELD WORKSHOP SELF DIRECT TIME SCHOOL EVENT !_REVIEW_! !_ASSESSMENT_!

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 YEAR SCHEDULE: Semester 1

WEEK FOUR W/C 13/10/2014

SCHEDULE SEMESTER ONE [weeks 4-7] WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

14/10/14 14.00 - 16.00

13/10/14 10.00-17.00

16/10/14 18.00-19.00

POLITICAL PROJECTS #1: THE ACTIVIST ARCHITECT grass roots, participatory design and situated spatial resistance

STUDIO TUTORIALS

ALL DESIGN

CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WILL ALSOP

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

TITLE

WHERE

WEEK FIVE W/C 20/10/2014

WHEN

21/10/14 14.00 - 16.00

23/10/14 10.00-17.00

POLITICAL PROJECTS #2: AUTONOMY architecture in and of the city as a project against capitalism

STUDIO TUTORIALS

CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

TITLE

WHERE

WEEK SEVEN W/C 03/11/2014

WEEK SIX W/C 27/10/2014

WHEN

28/11/14 14.00 - 16.00

30/10/14 10.00-17.00

30/10/14 18.00-19.00

POLITICAL PROJECTS #3: TECHNO UTOPIAS & RETREATS INTO NATURE cybernetics, systems and ecological approaches

STUDIO TUTORIALS

FIELDEN FOWLES

CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

FERGUS FEILDEN

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

04/11/14 14.00 - 16.00

06/11/14 10.00-17.00

06/11/14 18.00-19.00

MODERN BIO GEOGRAPHIES

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

UMBRELLIUM

TITLE

WHERE

TITLE WHERE WHO

CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK GABOR STARK

MULTISTORY SPACE SELF DIRECTED

USMAN HAQUE

PLEASE NOTE STUDIO DAY HAS CHANGED TO MONDAY, NOT THURSDAY FOR THIS WEEK

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 YEAR SCHEDULE: Semester 1

WEEK ELEVEN W/C 01/12/2014

WEEK TEN W/C 24/11/2014

WEEK NINE W/C 17/11/2014

WEEK EIGHT W/C 10/11/2014

SCHEDULE SEMESTER ONE [weeks 8-12] WHAT

REVIEW

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

10/11/14 10.00-17.00

11/11/14 14.00 - 16.00

13/11/14 10.00-17.00

13/11/14 18.00-19.00

UNIT 1.2 MAIN PROJECT INTERIM CRIT

SPATIAL METRICS, COGNITION AND KNOWLEDGE

STUDIO TUTORIALS

ALA

FOYER/CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

SAM MCELHINNEY

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

ALICE DIETSCH

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

18/11/14 14.00 - 16.00

20/11/14 10.00-17.00

19/11/14 13.00-14.00

20/11/14 18.00-19.00

TITLE

WORKSHOP #1 Writing Styles, Academic Conventions & Publishing

STUDIO TUTORIALS

EAST

HAWKINS BROWN

CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

JUDITH LOESING

ROGER HAWKINS

WHAT

DEADLINE

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

25/11/14 14.00

27/11/14 10.00-17.00

27/11/14 18.00-19.00

SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPER BY 1400

STUDIO TUTORIALS

JANE RENDELL

WHERE

REGISTRY OFFICE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

REGISTRY STAFF

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

JANE RENDELL

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

02/12/14 14.00 - 16.00

04/12/14 10.00-17.00

04/12/14 18.00-19.00

WORKSHOP #2 FORMATIVE FEEDBACK ON DRAFTS

STUDIO TUTORIALS

CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

STEPHANIE MACDONALD

WHAT

REVIEW

XMAS DRINKS

WHEN

11/12/14 10.00-17.00

11/12/14 17.00

UNIT 1.2 FINAL FORMATIVE CRIT

XMAS DRINKS

FOYER/CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

FOYER G-FLOOR G BLOCK

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA + GUESTS

VARIOUS

TITLE

WHERE

TITLE

TITLE WHERE

WEEK TWELVE W/C 08/12/2014

WHO

TITLE WHERE WHO

JOINT CRIT WITH IAD YEAR 3 WRITTEN FORMATIVE FEEDBACK PROVIDED

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 YEAR SCHEDULE: Semester 1

WEEK THIRTEEN W/C 05/01/2015

CHRISTMAS BREAK

SCHEDULE SEMESTER ONE [weeks 13-15] WHAT

XMAS BREAK

WHEN

13/12/14 - 05/01/2015

TITLE

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

WHO

SELF DIRECTED

WHAT

DEADLINE

STUDIO

WHEN

06/01/15 14.00

08/01/15 10.00-17.00

SUBMISSION OF FINAL PAPER BY 1400

PORTFOLIO SURGERY

REGISTRY OFFICE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

REGISTRY STAFF

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

TITLE

WHERE

WEEK FOURTEEN W/C 12/01/2015

WHO WHAT

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

15/01/15 10.00-17.00

15/01/15 18.00-19.00

STUDIO TUTORIALS

MUF

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

LIZA FIOR

TITLE WHERE WHO

WEEK FIFTEEN W/C 19/01/2015

PORTFOLIO WORK SHOULD BE PROGRESSED DURING CHRISTMAS BREAK

WHAT

REVIEW PREP

FINAL REVIEW

MULTISTORY

WHEN

19/01/15 - 21/01/15

22/02/15 10.00-17.00

22/01/15 18.00-19.00

INSTALL OF WORK

UNIT 1.2 FINAL REVIEW/SHOW OPENING

SEE POSTER!

LOCATION TBC

FOYER/CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

TBC

TITLE WHERE WHO

FINAL PROJECT ASSESSMENT OCCURS AT THIS POINT. SUMMATIVE FEEDBACK WILL BE GIVEN SUBMISSION/PRESENTATION PROCESS WILL BE CONFIRMED FOLLOWING WEEK 12 REVIEW

SEMESTER ONE BREAK 24/01/14 - 01/02/14

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 YEAR SCHEDULE: Semester 2

WEEK FOUR W/C 23/02/2015

WEEK THREE W/C 16/02/2015

WEEK TWO W/C 09/02/2015

WEEK ONE W/C 02/02/2015

SCHEDULE SEMESTER TWO [weeks 1-4] WHAT

FIELD TRIP

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

SEMINAR

WHEN

01-04/02/15

05/02/15 10.00-17.00

05/02/15 18.00-19.00

06/02/15 14.00 - 16.00

INNSBRUCK VISIT

INTRODUCTION TO UNIT 2.1

SEE POSTER!

[THESIS THEMES DISCUSSIONS]

INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

TBC

LUCY JONES

WHAT

REVIEW

MULTISTORY

SEMINAR

WHEN

12/02/15 10.00-17.00

12/02/15 18.00-19.00

13/02/15 14.00 - 16.00

TITLE

UNIT 2.1 IDEAS PIN-UP & FORMATIVE REVIEW

SEE POSTER!

[RESEARCH AND REFERENCING]

FOYER/CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

LIBRARY

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

TBC

LEARNING SUPPORT

WHAT

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

SEMINAR

WHEN

19/02/15 10.00-17.00

19/02/15 18.00-19.00

20/02/15 14.00 - 16.00

STUDIO TUTORIALS

SEE POSTER!

[ESTABLISHING A QUESTION]

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

TBC

LUCY JONES

WHAT

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

SEMINAR

WHEN

26/02/15 10.00-17.00

26/02/15 18.00-19.00

27/02/15 14.00 - 16.00

STUDIO TUTORIALS

SEE POSTER!

[ABSTRACTS AND STRUCTURES]

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

LIBRARY

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

TBC

LEARNING SUPPORT

TITLE WHERE

WHERE

TITLE WHERE

TITLE

WHERE WHO

JOINT CRIT WITH IAD YEAR 3 VERBAL FORMATIVE FEEDBACK PROVIDED

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 YEAR SCHEDULE: Semester 2

WEEK EIGHT W/C 23/03/2015

WEEK SEVEN W/C 16/03/2015

WEEK SIX W/C 09/03/2015

WEEK FIVE W/C 02/03/2015

SCHEDULE SEMESTER TWO [weeks 5-8] WHAT

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

DEADLINE

WHEN

04/03/15 10.00-17.00

05/03/15 18.00-19.00

06/02/15 14.00

STUDIO TUTORIALS

SEE POSTER!

SUBMISSION OF DRAFT 3,000 WORDS INC. ABSTRACT, STRUCTURE & INTRO

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

REGISTRY OFFICE

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

TBC

REGISTRY STAFF

WHAT

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

SEMINAR

WHEN

12/03/15 10.00-17.00

12/03/15 18.00-19.00

13/03/15 14.00 - 16.00

STUDIO TUTORIALS

SEE POSTER!

[DRAFT FEEDBACK DISCUSSIONS]

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

TBC

LUCY JONES

WHAT

REVIEW

SEMINAR

WHEN

19/03/15 10.00-17.00

20/03/15 14.00 - 16.00

UNIT 2.1 INTERIM CRIT

[LANGUAGE REVIEW & CONCLUSIONS]

FOYER/CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

LIBRARY

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

LEARNING SUPPORT

WHAT

STUDIO

SEMINAR

WHEN

25/03/15 10.00-17.00

27/03/15 14.00 - 16.00

STUDIO TUTORIALS

[DISCUSSION OF REVISIONS AND CONCLUSIONS]

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

LUCY JONES

TITLE

WHERE

TITLE WHERE

TITLE

WHERE WHO

JOINT CRIT WITH IAD YEAR 3 WRITTEN FORMATIVE FEEDBACK PROVIDED

PLEASE NOTE STUDIO DAY IS ON A WEDNESDAY NOT A THURSDAY FOR THIS WEEK

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 YEAR SCHEDULE: Semester 2

WEEK THIRTEEN W/C 27/04/2015

WEEK TWELVE W/C 20/04/2015

WEEK ELEVEN W/C 13/04/2015

WEEK TEN W/C 06/04/2015

WEEK NINE W/C 30/03/2015

SCHEDULE SEMESTER TWO [weeks 9-13] WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

WHEN

31/03/15 14.00 - 16.00

02/04/15 10.00-17.00

PAPER WRITE UP

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

WHO

SELF DIRECTED

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

WHEN

07/04/15 14.00 - 16.00

09/04/15 10.00-17.00

PAPER WRITE UP

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

WHO

SELF DIRECTED

WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

16/04/15 10.00-17.00

TITLE

WHERE

THIS PERIOD IS UCA EASTER BREAK AND WORK SHOULD BE PROGRESSED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS

STUDIO TUTORIALS MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WHAT

REVIEW

SEMINAR

WHEN

23/04/15 10.00-17.00

24/04/15 14.00 - 16.00

UNIT 2.1 FINAL CRIT

[FINAL PROOFS REVIEW]

WHERE

FOYER/ CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

LUCY JONES

WHAT

DEADLINE

STUDIO

WHEN

28/04/15 14.00

29/04/15 10.00-17.00

SUBMISSION OF FINAL PAPER TO COLLEGE OFFICE BY 1400

PORTFOLIO SURGERY

REGISTRY OFFICE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

REGISTRY STAFF

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

TITLE

TITLE WHERE WHO

JOINT CRIT WITH IAD YEAR 3 WRITTEN FORMATIVE FEEDBACK PROVIDED

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 YEAR SCHEDULE: Semester 2

WEEK FIFTEEN W/C 11/05/2015

WEEK FOURTEEN W/C 04/05/2015

SCHEDULE SEMESTER TWO [weeks 14-15] WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

07/05/15 10.00-17.00

TITLE WHERE

PORTFOLIO SURGERY MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WHAT

ASSESSMENT

WHEN

14/05/15 12.00

TITLE WHERE WHO

UNIT 2.1 SUBMISSION AND ASSESSMENT REGISTRY OFFICE

FINAL UNIT 2.1 ASSESSMENT OCCURS AT THIS POINT SUBMISSION/PRESENTATION PROCESS WILL BE CONFIRMED FOLLOWING WEEK 10 REVIEW

REGISTRY STAFF

SEMESTER TWO BREAK 16/05/14 - 24/05/14

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 YEAR SCHEDULE: Semester 3

WEEK FIVE W/C 22/06/2015

WEEK FOUR W/C 15/06/2015

WEEK THREE W/C 08/06/2015

WEEK TWO W/C 01/06/2015

WEEK ONE W/C 25/05/2015

SCHEDULE SEMESTER THREE [weeks 1-5] WHAT

STUDIO

WHOLE SCHOOL

WHEN

28/05/15 10.00-17.00

29/05/15 17.00-21.00

UNIT 3.1 ‘FINAL PROJECT’ INTRODUCTION

DEGREE SHOW OPENING

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

UCA CAMPUS

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

VARIOUS

WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

04/06/15 10.00-17.00

TITLE WHERE

TITLE

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

WHO

SELF DIRECTED

WHAT

SEMINAR

REVIEW

WHEN

09/06/15 14.00 - 16.00

11/06/15 10.00-17.00

CRITICAL PAPER SEMINAR

UNIT 3.1 IDEAS PIN-UP & FORMATIVE REVIEW

WHERE

CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

FOYER/CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

TBC [PER STUDENT]

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

TITLE

WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

18/06/15 10.00-17.00

TITLE WHERE

WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

25/06/15 10.00-17.00

WHO

JOINT CRIT WITH IAD YEAR 3 VERBAL FORMATIVE FEEDBACK PROVIDED

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WHERE

FINALISED TIMES FOR EXTERNAL EXAMINATION AND MA FINAL SHOW WILL BE CONFIRMED IN 2014

STUDIO TUTORIALS

WHO

TITLE

PROJECT #3 IS LIKELY TO INCLUDE EXTENDED CONSTRUCTION WORK AND AS SUCH STUDIO TUTORIAL LOCATIONS WILL BE CONFIRMED AT THIS POINT

STUDIO TUTORIALS MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 YEAR SCHEDULE: Semester 3

WEEK SEVEN W/C 06/07/2015

WEEK SIX W/C 29/06/2015

SCHEDULE SEMESTER THREE [weeks 6-10] WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

02/07/15 10.00-17.00

TITLE

STUDIO TUTORIALS MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHERE WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WHAT

REVIEW

WHEN

09/07/15 10.00-17.00

TITLE

UNIT 3.1 FINAL PROPOSALS REVIEW

WHERE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK SAM MCELHINNEY DAVE DI DUCA

WEEK TEN W/C 27/07/2015

WEEK NINE W/C 20/07/2015

WEEK EIGHT W/C 13/07/2015

WHO WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

WHEN

14/07/15 14.00 - 16.00

16/07/15 10.00-17.00

CRITICAL PAPER SEMINAR

STUDIO TUTORIALS

WHERE

CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

TBC [PER STUDENT]

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

WHEN

21/07/15 14.00 - 16.00

23/07/15 10.00-17.00

CRITICAL PAPER TUTORIAL

STUDIO TUTORIALS

WHERE

CRIT ROOM G-FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

TBC [PER STUDENT]

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

TITLE

WHAT

REVIEW

WHEN

30/07/15 10.00-17.00

TITLE WHERE WHO

WRITTEN FORMATIVE FEEDBACK PROVIDED

UNIT 3.1 FINAL CRIT MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK SAM MCELHINNEY DAVE DI DUCA

WRITTEN FORMATIVE FEEDBACK PROVIDED

MA ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 YEAR SCHEDULE: Semester 3

WEEK TWELVE W/C 10/08/2015

WEEK ELEVEN W/C 03/08/2015

SCHEDULE SEMESTER THREE [weeks 11-15] WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

06/08/15 10.00-17.00

TITLE

PORTFOLIO SURGERY MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHERE WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

13/08/15 10.00-17.00

TITLE

FINAL BUILD TUTORIALS MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHERE

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WEEK FOURTEEN W/C 24/08/2015

WEEK THIRTEEN W/C 17/08/2015

WHO WHAT

DEADLINE

ASSESSMENT

WHEN

18/08/15 14.00

20/08/15 12.00

21/08/15 10.00-17.00

CRITICAL PAPER SUBMISSION

PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION & INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

FINAL INSTALLATION PERIOD BEGINS

WHERE

REGISTRY OFFICE

G BLOCK

WHO

REGISTRY STAFF

SAM MCELHINNEY

WHAT

ASSESSMENT

DEGREE SHOW

WHEN

24/08/15 - 26/08/15

27/08/15 10.00-17.00

28/08/15 18.00

FINAL INSTALLATION PREPARATION PERIOD CONTINUES

EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS

OPENING

G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

SAM MCELHINNEY

ALL STAFF

TITLE

TITLE WHERE

WEEK FIFTEEN W/C 31/08/2015

WHO WHAT

DEGREE SHOW

WHEN

03/09/15 18.00

TITLE WHERE WHO

TAKE DOWN MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

FINAL FULL YEAR PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT OCCURS AT THIS POINT SUBMISSION/PRESENTATION PROCESS WILL BE CONFIRMED FOLLOWING WEEK 9 SURGERY

ALL MA STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO ORGANISE AND SHARE SITE INVIGILATION DUTIES DURING THE MA SHOW PERIOD

ALL

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follies of mind and matter REFERENCE MATERIAL - LIBRARY SUPPORT The University Library provides comprehensive visual arts and design resources. Visit the library on campus, online via myLibrary on myUCA, or at http://community.ucreative.ac.uk/library <http://community. ucreative.ac.uk/library> You can reserve selected materials across the five sites, on campus or online from home. Our Faculty Librarian is Ian Badger. You can find him in the library, telephone him to make a research appointment on 01227 817314 or email- ibadger@ucreative.ac.uk

REFERENCE MATERIAL - FIRST OVERVIEWS AND VOCABULARY The following list is an introduction to the field of interactive art and architecture, with extensions into the realms of robotics and cybernetics. They are useful compendia for those exploring our field for the first time. Being able to access and reference them will do much to help you understand the vocabulary involved, find precedents and potential approaches for your installations and understand the architectural outcomes and relevance of the theoretical works. You are expected to assimilate and understand the arguments within these texts as a first minimum. As your individual areas of interest come into focus you should greatly expand your library of relevant theoretical sources to suit. Usman Haque, ‘Distinguishing Concepts: Lexicons of Interactive Art & Architecture’, in Lucy Bullivant (ed.) 4dSocial: Interactive Design Environments, (London: Wiley & Sons, 2007) ISBN 0470319119 Discusses terms common in interactive art and architecture, including “interactive”, “open source” and “public & private”. Michael Fox & Miles Kemp, Interactive Architecture (Princeton University Press, 2009) ISBN 1568988362 An overview of themes that architects have been exploring using responsive technologies. Norman M Klein, Vatican to Vegas: A History of Special Effects (The New Press, 2004) ISBN 1565848039 A tour through special-effects environments from 1550 to the present, this book demonstrates how Renaissance and early Baroque artists pioneered interactive, cinematic, and even digital environments. Klein reviews this syntax and demonstrates how it is not only a barometer for politics, myths of identity and economic relations, but a parallel for understanding where our civilization may be heading. Anthony Dunne, Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, & Critical Design (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006) ISBN 9780262042321 A compact manual that explores the complex chemistry whereby industry, design, use, misuse, and marketing combine to form product. Dunne describes the potential for objects to offer ‘complicated pleasures’ akin to those we get from film or literature, and points to concrete ways that poetic products could be engineered.

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REFERENCE MATERIAL - PARADIGM SHIFTS These sources have been selected as they offer major shifts in the way you might consider architecture.They are generally succinct and easy to read; as such they are a must read. Take the time to understand the careful distinctions that they draw

Richard L. Gregory, Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing, (Princeton University Press, 1997) ISBN 0691048371 A succinct and successful introduction to the psychology of vision. It presents what we know, what we don’t know, what we think we know and how we think we know it. Valentino Braitenburg, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986) ISBN 0262521121 This is a brilliant work. It outlines a series of thought experiments and is both a stunning example of how to conceptually develop a series of ideas and how to narrate them clearly. It is inventive, creative and light to read; demonstrating how, by accumulation of well-defined and feasible mechanisms, initially trivial “vehicles” can develop emergent properties that can be defined by psychological jargon and assume the appearance of purposeful, thinking brains. Rodney A. Brooks, Cambrian Intelligence: the early history of the new AI, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999) ISBN 0262522632 Brooks was once the sole vanguard of what is now accepted wisdom in the field of AI. This book narrates his pioneering of the field of behaviour based robots and overturning of long established understandings of intelligence as being held endosomatically as a complete map of everything. The cornerstone of this approach is the realization that the coupling of perception and action gives rise to the power of intelligence and that cognition is only in the eye of an observer. Stephen Gage, ‘The Wonder of Trivial Machines’, Systems Research and Behavioural Science, vol.23 (London: Wiley, 2006) pp.771-8 Stephen Gage, ‘How to design a black and white box’, Kybernetes, vol.36 no.9/10 (Emerald, 2007) pp.1329-39 An argument that physical architecture can be observed as the nesting of a trivial machine within a machine whose function is not fully known, thus producing the attributes of non-trivial machines [ie delight and surprise]. Gage links the basic vocabulary of cybernetics to architectural design practices to establish a link that you must have a critical awareness of. Gordon Pask, ‘A comment, a case history and a plan‘, in Jasia Reichardt (ed.) Cybernetics, Art and Ideas (Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1971), pp.76-92 Usman Haque, ‘The architectural relevance of Gordon Pask’, in Lucy Bullivant (ed.) 4dSocial: Interactive Design Environments, (London: Wiley & Sons, 2007) Together these two papers provide an accounting of the processes and a review of the work of cybernetician Gordon Pask, with suggestions of how his ideas can inform the development of authentically interactive architecture. Omar Khan and Philip Beesley, ‘Responsive Architecture/Performing Instruments’, in Khan, O. Scholz, T. and Shepard, M. (eds.) Situated Technologies Pamphlets 4. (New York : The Architectural League of New York, 2009) ISBN 9780980099430 This pamphlet pursues an expanded view of architectural “performance” that attempts to move beyond instrumental systems oriented towards efficient service. It explores humans’ relationship with responsive technologies, discusses our propensity to ‘project’ our consciousness and proposes a renewed engagement with instruments that establish complex organic relationships between environment and occupant. Heinz Von Foerster, Understanding Understanding: Essays On Cybernetics and Cognition, (New York: Springer, 2003) ISBN 0387953922 In this series of essays Heinz von Foerster (one of the founders of the study of Cybernetics) discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge.

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REFERENCE MATERIAL - ONLINE RESOURCES These are self explanatory and the list is far from exhaustive; it is intended to act as a point of departure for your own research. FIRSTLY: mudarchitecture.com - Sam McElhinneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s site; includes a small online archive of papers, (some of which are listed above) ARTISTS IN THE FIELD: calder.org/ cyberneticserendipity.net/ camilleutterback.com/ chrisoshea.org/ flong.com/ lozano-hemmer.com/ smoothware.com/danny/ uva.co.uk/ tmema.org/messa/messa.html lebbeuswoods.net/ christian-moeller.com/ lumiskin.net/ ruairiglynn.co.uk/ snibbeinteractive.com/

BLOGS/ONLINE COLLECTIONS: bldgblog.blogspot.com/ interactivearchitecture.org we-make-money-not-art.com/ creativeapplications.net infosthetics.com nanoarchitecture.net visualcomplexity.com machinethinking.org smart-machines.blogspot.com/ createdigitalmotion.com/ pixelsumo.com generatorx.no

MAKING KNOWHOW: Kobakant - http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/ - Tutorials and more relating to textiles and interaction design Arduino - http://www.arduino.cc/ - Popular cheap open source microcontroller. It has a large online support community. Freeduino - http://www.freeduino.org/ - Knowledge base for the Arduino Instructables - http://www.instructables.com/ - Massive open source database of tutorials from the simple to the complex projects. Make - http://www.makezine.com/ - Similar to the above with a more deliberate project based approach Fritzing - http://fritzing.org/projects/ - Useful for gaining knowledge about designing electronic circuits Cool Components - http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/ - UK Store for your component supplies. Robives - http://www.robives.com/mechs - handy guide to mechanic gear systems Grand Illusions - http://www.grand-illusions.com/ - Online shop of optical and other tricks Rapid - http://www.rapidonline.com/Education/Systems-Control -Useful online supplier of basic kits including gear and electronics packs. Check out their education section in general also!

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