BSc Unit 2 Yr 2: Barry Cho, Grace Cooper, Elspeth Cornish, Yat Hoi Desmond Hung, Zachary Anthony Keene, Ruth Watkinson, Lukas Westcott. Yr 3: Carolyn Behar, Jason Kwok Kwan Chan, Morten Engel, Hsiao-Wei Lee, Sara Mohammadi Khabazan, Amelia Rule, Bashrat Verjee, George Wong.
Tales of Two Moods There is a sense of a heightening of experience when objects and settings are distanced from use as autonomous ‘stories’, and yet at the same time are fully accepted as part of our day-to-day existence. It is this tension, this excitement created by the simultaneous perception of the ordinary and the strange, which we investigate this year in two distinctive ways and stories. 1 Mood Catchers The first story takes place in the area around the Serpentine in Hyde Park, where you can swim, eat, see art, ride horses, sail, listen to music, and here we look at developing a new ‘topography’ for the Serpentine. From this, we attempt to generate a spatial gesture for the building project that is evocative of a particular mood, capturing a fleeting moment, and is a discourse about contemporary leisure and the ephemeral in architecture. 2 Mood Makers In the same way that the introduction of train travel led to a faster and different perception of the landscape, the internet and other digital media have changed our way of communicating and seeing, and offer different, more open-ended and interactive ways of story-telling. We investigate how these new technologies can influence our understanding and movement through space, extending our knowledge of the city as a place of public event. These projects deal with film/video making and screening in a dense urban setting and involve not only the study of film, digital and video as media of performance, but also traditions of theatricality, spectacle and public event.
Felicity Atekpe and Karl Unglaub
Clockwise from top: Bashrat Verjee, Amelia Rule, George Wong, Hsiaio-Wei Lee.