Dip Unit 23 Yr 4: Aaron Brookes, Timothy Barwell, Catriona Forbes, Michael Garnett, Paul Jakulis, Ryan Martin, Ruth Oldham, Cheng-E Tham. Yr 5: Ralf Eikelberg, Thomas Housden, Yiannis Kanakakis, Lucie Reuter, Manuel Shvartzberg.
CODEMAKER Unit 23 invites individuals to establish diverse and critical positions on making architecture. For the unit, questions on how we design are of equal importance to those on what we design. Propositions are established and developed through the production of objects, texts, drawings and interventions that test attitudes towards technology, theory, history, politics, culture, buildings and the city. CODEMAKER refers on one level, to the production and design of information protocols from industrial processes, but it also may refer to the intellectual meaning of that information. For example; modes of conduct, behaviour, identity, and so on. CODEMAKER suggests a method and application, a subject and an object, an idea and its translation. Project 1 : Fixtures and Fittings. Objects usually associated with property inventories, Fixtures and Fittings occupy a liminal place between permanent and temporary, communal and private, universal and personal, utilitarian and decorative. Based on an extract from Perec's Species of Spaces, listing the humdrum actions within an imaginary apartment building, students were invited to invent and make a 1:1 Fixture or Fitting. Project 2: A Private Collection Informed by Project 1 and our field trip to Vienna, Graz, Bratislava and Walter Pichler's farm in Burgenland, the project sought to expand the potential for diverse and implied meanings for a Private Collection, exploring the illicit, the bizarre, the hidden, the repulsive and the eccentric. Our thanks to the following critics and consultants who generously offered their time and insight throughout the year: Abi Abdolwahabi, Matthew Barnett-Howland, Paul Bavister, Kate Davies, Max Dewdney, Matt Driscoll, Tom Emerson, Bernd Felsinger, Christophe Gerard, Brain Greathead, Stephen Greenberg, Richard Grimes, Sean Hanna, Simon Herron, Charles Holland, Jack Hosea, Prashant Kapoor, Eoin Keating, Brigid McLeer, Paul Monaghan, Luke Olsen, Ron Packman, Peg Rawes, Mark Smout, Emmanuel Vercruysse, Oliver Wilton, Umut Yamac.
Bob Sheil, Zoe Smith and Graeme Williamson
This page: Michael Garnett, Prosthetic caviar cooler and mother of pearl tasting spoons for the National Institute of Stem Cell Research, Harley