Dip Unit 10 Yr 4: Yao-jen Chuang, Lei Guo, Jonathan Hagos, Tom Hillier, Ben Masterton-Smith, Maxwell Mutanda, Gemma Noakes, Emma Seabright, Adeline Wee, Tumpa Yasmin. Yr 5: Dimitrios Argyros, Julian Busch, Andreas Helgesson, Tomasz Marchewka, Alleen Siu, John Paul Young.
Building Assemblage of our Travels At times all I need is a brief glimpse, an opening in the midst of an incongruous landscape, a glint of lights in the fog, the dialogue of two passerby meeting in the crowd, and I think that, setting out from there, I will put together, piece by piece, the perfect city... Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Travel transports people on a journey and is the time and process of displacement from one location to another. Tourism is the world’s largest industry today. A round the world tour with Thomas Cook + Son, started in 1872, for 200 guineas and included a steamship across the Atlantic, a stagecoach across America, a paddle steamer to Japan, and an overland journey across China and India. Souvenirs are a material memento and just like photographic imagery they evoke the experiences of our foreign travels, and both signify the experience of ownership and aspects of cultural otherness. Fasten your seatbelt! We start our architectural and cultural odyssey from DEPARTURE, a series of assemblage-based workshops exploring the issues and myths of travel. Our interest lies in the physical potential and the intellectual relationships between ‘drawing’, ‘assembly’ and architecture as ‘built assemblage’. The initial 2D and 3D assemblages will form an itinerary of architectural explorations and narrative for ARRIVAL, the eventual architectural propositions in Luxor.
cj Lim and Bernd Felsinger
Top: Jonathan Hagos, Colonising with Tea. Middle: Ben Masterton-Smith, China in Luxor. Bottom: Maxwell Mutanda, Christmas in Luxor.