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magical fabrications MA ARCHITECTURE 2013-2014 UNIT 1.2: Exploratory Practice [CARCFAFAM]

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Cover Image: Detail adapted from The Alchemist, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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magical fabrications HANDBOOK CONTENTS THEMATIC OVERVIEW & AIMS 02 METHOD OVERVIEW & LEARNING OUTCOMES

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TEACHING & LEARNING SUPPORT 06 ASSESSMENT 07 INDUCTION WEEK PROGRAMME 09 URBAN WANDERING 11 UNIT PHASES

1_THE MIRACLES 13

2_FIELD FEEDBACK 14 3_KNOWING 15 YEAR SCHEDULE

SEMESTER 1 17

SEMESTER 2 21

SEMESTER 3 25

REFERENCE MATERIAL

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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.

A traveller puts his head under the edge of the firmament in the Flammarion engraving [artist unknown]

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magical fabrications THEMATIC OVERVIEW A travelling magician seeks to stimulate a sense of wonder in her audience. She does this by unpacking and constructing a trick. The scenario that she describes, although theatrical, is usually grounded in normal terminologies and so is accepted as normal by the observer. Once this suspension of disbelief has occurred, our magician’s performance manipulates aspects of the observer’s perception, subverting preconceived couplings of cause and effect by sleight of hand. As the audience attempt to reconstruct how these tricks work, moments of collective delight are created.

In many ways, an Architect behaves in the same way as the Magician. Starting from an imagined audience, the Architect coordinates space as a performance. This arrangement is based on what we think that the audience will appreciate and enjoy; we repeatedly deploy ‘tricks’ from our design repertoire. Once again, it is the reconstruction of the constituent moves of this trickery that we hope will engender delight in our audience, the occupants of our buildings.

It is therefore of value for us, as Architects, to explore and understand more deeply how the performer - audience couple works and how the notion of ‘delight’ in architecture can be triggered.

During the next year, we will seek to explore how patterns, motion and phenomena of performance that we perceive in the natural world might be reconstructed by the observer, forming a mimetic cultural manufacture of imagination, ritual and meaning. We will examine how this process might guide to the production of artefacts and the crafting of objects that seek to interact or communicate with their user.

Themes of kinesis, time-based performance, perceived animism and the inaccuracies of reality will frame enquiry into our primary question; how people construct understandings of the world and how, as designers, we can manipulate these processes to create novelty and a sensation of wonder.

MAGICAL: 1. relating to, using, or resembling magic 2. beautiful or delightful in a way that seems removed from everyday life FABRICATION: 1. the process of producing a thing 2. an invention, concoction or myth

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LEARNING OUTCOMES 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

The Alchemist, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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magical fabrications METHOD OVERVIEW - THE REAL THING In this unit 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.

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TEACHING AND LEARNING SUPPORT Your tutors are Sam McElhinney [sam@mudarchitecture] and Will Alsop [w.alsop@all-worldwide. com]. Sam McElhinney is the Unit 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 Ian Badger is the Faculty Librarian for Architecture and for Interior Architecture & Design. Find him in the library on campus, or contact him to make a research appointment: tel: 01227 817314, email- ibadger@ucreative.ac.uk 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. myUCA, UCA’s virtual learning environment, will be utilised to support the delivery of this unit.

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

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ASSESSMENT The 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 structured based upon your completion of the three unit phases as outlined in this handbook.

Assessment will be based upon the following criteria, as mapped to the learning outcomes previously itemised and represented by the briefed outputs of each phase: 1. CONCEPTUAL SKILLS Demonstrated through knowledge of theoretical and creative practice contexts, references and methods specific to your area of enquiry and appropriate specialist technical knowledge Criteria will be mapped against LO1 & LO3 2. RESEARCH SKILLS Demonstrated through the practical application of research methods to address questions in your own work Criteria will be mapped against LO2, LO3 & LO4 3. TECHNICAL SKILLS Demonstrated through your use of and experimentation with specialist technical skills Criteria will be mapped against LO3 4. COMMUNICATION Demonstrated through the communication of interim projects/critiques and a coherent and wellstructured project proposal Criteria will be mapped against LO1 & LO4 5. SELF MANAGEMENT Demonstrated through your planning and organisation of exploratory creative practice projects Criteria will be mapped against LO5

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magical fabrications INDUCTION WEEK ARRANGEMENTS Welcome to the MA Architecture Course. We are pleased to welcome you to the Canterbury School of Architecture and hope you are looking forward to an enjoyable and successful year.

Below is your timetable for key events during the induction week. Your course will start in earnest on Tuesday 24th September with a first History and Theory session. Our first Studio Day will be held on Thursday 26th of September, as an extended walking tour introducing and exploring the City of London. Arrangements for and details of this day will follow shortly.

THURSDAY 19/09

TUESDAY 17/09

A course brief will be distributed at 15.45 on Thursday 19th September, followed by an MA group meet. In preparation for this please complete your first assignment; a brief for this is also below.

WHEN

11.00 -11.45

11.45 - 12.30

WHERE

UCA LIBRARY

WHAT WHO

14.00-15.00

15.00-16.00

UCA LIBRARY

WORKSHOP

WORKSHOP

LIBRARY INTRODUCTION [GROUP 1*]

LIBRARY INTRODUCTION [GROUP 2†]

WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION [GROUP 1*]

LIBRARY INTRODUCTION [GROUP 2†]

IAN BADGER

IAN BADGER

SIMON NIMMO

SIMON NIMMO

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14.30 - 15.00

15.00 -15.30

15.45 - 16.00

16.00-17.00

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Cragg Lecture Theatre

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

ENROLMENT

HISTORY & THEORY INTRODUCTION

MA ARCHITECTURE INTRODUCTION

MECHANICAL MARVELS VIEWING

REGISTRY

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

SAM MCELHINNEY

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LUNCH

PAUSE

*GROUP ONE: Osita Nwachukwu, Ania Djermouli, Maki Uesaka, Ahmad Buba, Jiahui Li, Ivor McNamara †GROUP TWO: Jui-Heng Chuang, Hualing Jiang, Constantina Zacharia, Ediz Orac, Jo Ong, Jason Le Mare [COURSE ENROLMENT CODE: CARCFAFAM MA Architecture]

ASSIGNMENT 01 [due 19/09] Design and construct a delightful plate of food; savoury or sweet.

The Peasant Wedding, Pieter Brueghel the Younger

Your offering and any implements required to eat it must be dropped off in the ‘Goldfish Bowl’ on the ground floor of G Block before Allan Atlee’s History and Theory introduction at 15.00 on Thursday 19th.

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.

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magical fabrications URBAN WANDERING - london, (city of), 26/09 - 13.84km - 10.30-18.00

EXPECTED ITINERARY

We will meet at the south end of St Pancras terminal building, on the upper concourse. Assemble by the giant bronze statue next to Carluccios’ restaurant at 10.30 sharp!

km_00 - St Pancras Grand (Meet)

download ‘MapMyWalk’ for iphone/android for exact route http://www.mapmywalk.com/routes/view/284611611

The first off peak train of the day is the 9.23 from Canterbury West. This arrives into St Pancras at 10.21.

One day return will cost £32.70 full fare (around 30% off with student cards)

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km_09 7_KM - New New Place, urban shed coffee shop - Bunhill Fields Burial Ground (walkthrough)

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Mobile phones Sketchbooks, notebooks, cameras

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km_11-12 - Gherkin, Bank of England, Poultry (walkby) - New Change (rooftop)

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km_13+ - Millenium Bridge (walkover) - Infinite Stair outside Tate (public installation) - Tate Turbine Hall (free shows in Boiler rooms)

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magical fabrications PHASE ONE - THE MIRACLES [automate and illude] 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.This will include an introduction to the school’s digital fabrication suite but you will also be 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.

As an outcome of the first semester you will be expected to produce a portable ‘miracle box’ device that could be part of a modern day magic show.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.

Begin by taking simple ‘found’ phenomena and re-making them to surprise and delight your audience.

Scale of proposals:

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

Project outcomes:

A beautifully constructed, portable ‘Miracle Box’ artefact

A public exhibition of the completed collected devices.

Portfolio outcomes:

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

Learning outcomes:

Introduction to simulation methodologies

Proficiency in artistic making skills

Knowledge of a specific area of illusion or perception

Timescale:

September 2013 - January 2014

Untitled, Bridget Riley

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magical fabrications PHASE TWO - FIELD FEEDBACK [try again, fail again, fail better] In the second semester we will introduce you to computational and cybernetic design through the mechanism of the feedback loop. Your established mastery of illusion and its creation will be developed into a teleological system with which a user or environment can begin to establish a dialogue. These systems should have sensory understandings of their context and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;goalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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.

By aiming to produce deployable objects or installations that sense, think and act, we will examine the extent to which we, as cognitive observers, project our own intelligences onto our environment.

Data fed from or filtered in response to a site specific context will be used to inform projected or mapped an output effects using sensory techniques such as sound, light, movement, touch or taste.

This refraction back onto the context will be recorded as a designed, interventive phenomenon.

You will continue to explore your chosen themes through 1:1 iterative making, increasing the scale and refined quality of what you are producing. Where necessary you will add skills in programming, electronics and control systems to suit specific project needs.

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 2014 - April 2014

Waterfall, Escher

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magical fabrications PHASE THREE - KNOWING [afford, adapt and contextualising intelligence] Once your physical making and cybernetic control skills have become advanced we will attempt to transplant these into a real site. Based on the outcomes of your previous mapping work, you will propose large scale permanent interventions that meet a real brief. In doing this, you will learn how the notion of affordance allows for continual re-interpretation of your previous proposalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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 current design and artistic construction, you would at this point be expected to be versed in parallel contemporary themes of artificial intelligence, cognition, adaption, communication or emergence. From this knowledge base, we 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 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 2014 - August 2014

Alternative Lanscape, Benoit PaillĂŠ

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magical fabrications

WEEK THREE W/C 07/10/2013

WEEK TWO W/C 30/09/2013

WEEK ONE W/C 23/09/2013

WEEK ZERO W/C 16/09/2013

SCHEDULE SEMESTER ONE [weeks 0-3] WHAT

ENROLMENT

STUDIO INTRO

WHEN

17/09/13 11.00 - 16.00

19/09/13 14.00 - 17.00

WHERE

SEE ENROLMENT TIMETABLE

SEE ENROLMENT TIMETABLE

WHO

VARIOUS

VARIOUS

WHAT

SEMINAR

FIELD WORKSHOP

WHEN

24/09/13 14.00 - 16.00

26/09/13 10.30-18.00

FUTURE LANDSCAPES Themes, trends and tendencies in contemporary urbanism

URBAN WANDERING Walking tour of City of London

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

Meet at St Pancras Station, 10.30am

WHO

GABOR STARK

SAM MCELHINNEY

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

01/10/13 14.00 - 16.00

03/10/13 10.00-16.30

03/10/13 18.00-19.00

TBC

STUDIO TUTORIALS

FARSHID MOUSSAVI

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

JOHN BELL

SAM MCELHINNEY

FARSHID MOUSSAVI

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

08/10/13 14.00 - 16.00

10/10/13 10.00-16.30

10/10/13 18.00-19.00

TITLE

ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SPACE STUPID! spatial turns in the fine arts, social sciences, political economy and anthropology

STUDIO TUTORIALS

PETCHA KUTCHA What happened next?

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

CSA ALUMNI

TITLE

WHERE

TITLE WHERE

WHERE WHO

LONDON FIELD WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE IS ELECTIVE BUT HIGHLY ADVISED

PLEASE NOTE ALL MULTISTORY DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CONFIRMATION; ALTERATIONS WILL BE ANNOUNCED VIA MYUCA AND POSTERS

SEMINAR DESIGN STUDIO STUDIO+WILL ALSOP FIELD WORKSHOP TESTBED VISIT SELF DIRECT TIME SCHOOL EVENT !_REVIEW_! !_ASSESSMENT_!

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SCHEDULE SEMESTER ONE [weeks 4-6] WHAT

SEMINAR

TESTBED

MULTISTORY

WHEN

15/10/13 14.00 - 16.00

17/10/13 10.00-16.30

17/10/13 18.00-19.00

THE NEW PHENOMENOLOGISTS the return to craft; spatial and material affective possibilities

WORKSHOP #1 BAD ARCHITECTURE

FIELDEN CLEGG BRADLEY STUDIOS

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

TESTBED, BATTERSEA

MULTISTORY SPACE

ALLAN ATLEE

WILL ALSOP SAM MCELHINNEY GABOR STARK JOHN BELL ALLAN ATLEE

JULIAN GITSHAM

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WEEK FOUR W/C 14/10/2013

TITLE

WHERE WHO

WHAT

WEEK SIX W/C 28/10/2013

WEEK FIVE W/C 21/10/2013

WHEN

22/10/13 14.00 - 16.00

21/10/13 10.00-16.30

24/10/13 18.00-19.00

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

STUDIO TUTORIALS

DAVID KOHN

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

DAVID KOHN

WHAT

SEMINAR

REVIEW

MULTISTORY

WHEN

29/10/13 14.00 - 16.00

31/10/13 10.00-16.30

31/10/13 18.00-19.00

TITLE

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

INTERIM CRIT

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

ALLAN ATLEE

WILL ALSOP, SAM MCELHINNEY GABOR STARK

WILL ALSOP

TITLE

WHERE

WHERE WHO

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ALL DESIGN

JOINT WORKSHOP WITH UCA MAUD UCA MARCH

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

JOINT CRIT WITH UCA MAUD FORMATIVE FEEDBACK PROVIDED AT THIS POINT N.B. SATURDAY 1ST NOVEMBER & SUNDAY 2ND NOVEMBER WILL BE STAFF AND GUESTS TESTBED FIELD WORKSHOP TRIP TO GIRONA, SPAIN.

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WEEK ELEVEN W/C 02/12/2013

WEEK TEN W/C 25/11/2013

WEEK NINE W/C 18/11/2013

WEEK EIGHT W/C 11/11/2013

WEEK SEVEN W/C 04/11/2013

SCHEDULE SEMESTER ONE [weeks 7-11] WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

05/11/13 14.00 - 16.00

07/11/13 10.00-16.30

07/11/13 18.00-19.00

TITLE

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

STUDIO TUTORIALS

CRUZ & COLLETTI

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

MARCOS CRUZ, MARJAN COLLETTI

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

12/11/13 14.00 - 16.00

14/11/13 10.00-16.30

14/11/13 18.00-19.00

TITLE

ARCHITECTURE IDOL media and celebrity and the function of the icon

STUDIO TUTORIALS

JONATHON CHARLEY

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

WILL ALSOP SAM MCELHINNEY

JON CHARLEY

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

19/11/13 14.00 - 16.00

21/11/13 10.00-16.30

21/11/13 18.00-19.00

TITLE

WORKSHOP #1 Writing Styles, Academic Conventions & Publishing

STUDIO TUTORIALS

KASPER MUELLER KNEER ARCHITECTS

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

MARIANNE MUELLER

WHAT

DEADLINE

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

26/11/13 14.00

28/11/13 10.00-16.30

28/11/13 18.00-19.00

SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPER BY 1400

STUDIO TUTORIALS

PETER ACKROYD

COLLEGE OFFICE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

WILL ALSOP SAM MCELHINNEY

PETER ACKROYD

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

WHEN

03/12/13 14.00 - 16.00

05/12/13 10.00-16.30

WORKSHOP #2 FORMATIVE FEEDBACK ON DRAFTS

STUDIO TUTORIALS

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

WHERE

WHERE

WHERE

TITLE WHERE

TITLE WHERE WHO

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WEEK THIRTEEN W/C 06/01/2014

CHRISTMAS BREAK

WEEK TWELVE W/C 09/12/2013

SCHEDULE SEMESTER ONE [weeks 12-15] WHAT

REVIEW

XMAS DRINKS

WHEN

12/12/13 10.00-16.30

12/12/13 17.00

PROJECT #1 FINAL CRIT

XMAS DRINKS

TESTBED, BATTERSEA

TESTBED, BATTERSEA

WHO

WILL ALSOP SAM MCELHINNEY GABOR STARK

ALL STAFF

WHAT

XMAS BREAK

WHEN

13/12/13 - 05/01/2014

TITLE WHERE

TITLE

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

WHO

SELF DIRECTED

WHAT

DEADLINE

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

07/01/14 14.00

09/01/14 10.00-16.30

09/01/14 18.00-19.00

SUBMISSION OF FINAL PAPER BY 1400

PORTFOLIO SURGERY

NAT CHARD

COLLEGE OFFICE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

NAT CHARD

WHAT

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

13/01/14 10.00-16.30

16/01/14 18.00-19.00

STUDIO TUTORIALS

HOW TO LIKE EVERYTHING

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY

PAUL SHEPHEARD

WHAT

EXHIBITION PREP

MULTISTORY

WHEN

23/01/14 10.00-16.30

23/01/14 18.00-19.00

PROJECT #1 SUBMISSION AND ASSESSMENT

COLIN PRIEST

HERBERT READ GALLERY SPACE

MULTISTORY SPACE

SAM MCELHINNEY

COLIN PRIEST

TITLE

WHERE

WEEK FIFTEEN W/C 20/01/2014

WEEK FOURTEEN W/C 13/01/2014

WHO

TITLE WHERE

TITLE WHERE WHO

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JOINT CRIT WITH UCA MAUD FORMATIVE FEEDBACK PROVIDED AT THIS POINT PORTFOLIO WORK SHOULD BE PROGRESSED DURING CHRISTMAS BREAK

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

FINAL PROJECT ASSESSMENT OCCURS AT THIS POINT SUBMISSION/PRESENTATION PROCESS WILL BE CONFIRMED FOLLOWING WEEK 12 REVIEW EXTERNAL EXAM DATES FOR TOP-UP CANDIDATES TBC

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PRESENTATION/ASSESSMENT W/C 27/01/2014

SCHEDULE SEMESTER ONE END / SEMESTER TWO [weeks 1-4] WHAT

EXHIBITION OPENING

WHEN

27/01/14 - 29/01/14

TITLE

PROJECT #1 SUBMISSION AND ASSESSMENT

WHERE

HERBERT READ GALLERY SPACE

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY

WEEK THREE W/C 24/02/2014

WEEK TWO W/C 17/02/2014

WEEK ONE W/C 10/02/2014

SEMESTER ONE BREAK 03/02/14 - 09/02/14

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

11/02/14 14.00 - 16.00

13/02/14 10.00-16.30

13/02/14 18.00-19.00

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT #2

EDWARD BURTYNSKY

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MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

EDWARD BURTYNSKY

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

18/02/14 14.00 - 16.00

20/02/14 10.00-16.30

20/02/14 18.00-19.00

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

STUDIO TUTORIALS

SARAH ICHIOKA

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MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

WILL ALSOP SAM MCELHINNEY

SARAH ICHIOKA

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

25/02/14 14.00 - 16.00

13/02/14 10.00-16.30

27/02/14 18.00-19.00

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

STUDIO TUTORIALS

URBAN NARRATIVE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

STEVE SMITH

TITLE WHERE

TITLE WHERE

TITLE WHERE WHO

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WEEK SEVEN W/C 24/03/2014

WEEK SIX W/C 17/03/2014

WEEK FIVE W/C 10/03/2014

WEEK FOUR W/C 03/03/2014

SCHEDULE SEMESTER TWO [weeks 4-7] WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

04/03/14 14.00 - 16.00

06/03/14 10.00-16.30

06/03/14 18.00-19.00

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

STUDIO TUTORIALS

TBC

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MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

TBC

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

11/03/14 14.00 - 16.00

12/03/14 10.00-16.30

13/03/14 18.00-19.00

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

STUDIO IN LONDON

NIC CLEAR

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LONDON

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

NIC CLEAR

WHAT

SEMINAR

REVIEW

MULTISTORY

WHEN

18/03/14 14.00 - 16.00

20/03/13 10.00-16.30

20/03/14 18.00-19.00

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

INTERIM PIN UP

GORT SCOTT

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MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

GORT SCOTT

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

WHEN

25/03/14 14.00 - 16.00

27/03/14 10.00-16.30

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

STUDIO TUTORIALS

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

TITLE

WHERE

TITLE WHERE

TITLE WHERE

TITLE WHERE WHO

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WEEK TWELVE W/C 28/04/2014

WEEK ELEVEN W/C 21/04/2014

WEEK TEN W/C 14/04/2014

WEEK NINE W/C 07/04/2014

WEEK EIGHT W/C 31/03/2014

SCHEDULE SEMESTER TWO [weeks 8-12] WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

01/04/14 14.00 - 16.00

03/04/14 10.00-16.30

03/04/14 18.00-19.00

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

STUDIO TUTORIALS LIVE LINK TO INNSBRUCK

THE PLACE HACKERS

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MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

THE PLACE HACKERS

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

MULTISTORY

WHEN

08/04/14 14.00 - 16.00

08/04/14 10.00-16.30

10/04/14 18.00-19.00

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

STUDIO TUTORIALS

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MULTISTORY SPACE

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

ALISON BROOKS

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

WHEN

15/04/14 14.00 - 16.00

17/04/14 10.00-16.30

PAPER WRITE UP

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

WHO

SELF DIRECTED

SELF DIRECTED

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

WHEN

22/04/14 14.00 - 16.00

24/04/14 10.00-16.30

PAPER WRITE UP

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

WHO

SELF DIRECTED

SELF DIRECTED

WHAT

DEADLINE

FIELD WORKSHOP

WHEN

29/04/14 14.00

30/04/14 - 03/04//14

SUBMISSION OF FINAL PAPER TO COLLEGE OFFICE BY 1400

INNSBRUCK

TITLE

WHERE

TITLE

WHERE

TITLE

TITLE

TITLE WHERE WHO

ALISON BROOKS

FORWARD PLANNING FOR FIELD TRIP PRESENTATIONS PROVIDED AT THIS POINT WORK IS TO BE PROGRESSED BASED ON THIS DURING WEEKS 11 & 12

INNSBRUCK FIELD WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE IS ELECTIVE BUT HIGHLY ADVISED

INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA ALLAN ATLEE

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WEEK FOURTEEN W/C 12/05/2014

WEEK THIRTEEN W/C 05/05/2014

SCHEDULE SEMESTER TWO [weeks 13-14] WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

08/05/14 10.00-16.30

TITLE

STUDIO TUTORIALS

WHERE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY

WHAT

ASSESSMENT

WHEN

15/05/14 10.00-16.30

TITLE WHERE WHO

PROJECT #2 SUBMISSION AND ASSESSMENT MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK SAM MCELHINNEY

FINAL PROJECT ASSESSMENT OCCURS AT THIS POINT SUBMISSION/PRESENTATION PROCESS WILL BE CONFIRMED FOLLOWING WEEK 10 REVIEW EXTERNAL EXAM DATES FOR TOP-UP CANDIDATES TBC

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

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WEEK TWO W/C 02/06/2014

WEEK ONE W/C 26/05/2014

SCHEDULE SEMESTER THREE [weeks 1-5] WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

29/05/14 10.00-16.30

TITLE

INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT #3

WHERE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY

WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

05/06/14 10.00-16.30

TITLE

STUDIO TUTORIALS MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHERE

WEEK THREE W/C 09/06/2014

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

WHEN

10/06/14 14.00 - 16.00

12/06/14 10.00-16.30

TITLE

CRITICAL PAPER SEMINAR

STUDIO TUTORIALS

WHERE

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WEEK FOUR W/C 16/06/2014 WEEK FIVE W/C 23/06/2014

WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

19/06/14 10.00-16.30

TITLE WHERE

STUDIO TUTORIALS MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

26/06/14 10.00-16.30

TITLE WHERE WHO

FULL SCOPE OF PROJECT #3 INCLUDING FINALISED TIMES FOR EXTERNAL EXAMINATION AND DEGREE SHOW WILL BE CONFIRMED IN 2014

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WHO

WHO

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

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WEEK SEVEN W/C 07/07/2014

WEEK SIX W/C 30/06/2014

SCHEDULE SEMESTER THREE [weeks 6-10] WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

03/07/14 10.00-16.30

TITLE

STUDIO TUTORIALS MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHERE WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVID DI DUCA

WHAT

REVIEW

WHEN

10/07/13 10.00-16.30

TITLE

INTERIM REVIEW MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHERE

SAM MCELHINNEY DAVE DI DUCA

WEEK NINE W/C 21/07/2014

WEEK EIGHT W/C 14/07/2014

WHO WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

WHEN

15/06/14 14.00 - 16.00

17/07/14 10.00-16.30

TITLE

CRITICAL PAPER SEMINAR

STUDIO TUTORIALS

WHERE

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

WHAT

SEMINAR

STUDIO

WHEN

22/06/14 14.00 - 16.00

24/07/14 10.00-16.30

TITLE

CRITICAL PAPER TUTORIAL

PORTFOLIO SURGERY

WHERE

G BLOCK LECTURE SPACE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

WEEK TEN W/C 28/07/2014

WHO

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WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

31/07/14 10.00-16.30

TITLE

[PROJECT DEVELOPMENT]

WHO

SELF DIRECTED

FORMATIVE FEEDBACK PROVIDED AT THIS POINT

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WEEK TWELVE W/C 11/08/2014

WEEK ELEVEN W/C 04/08/2014

SCHEDULE SEMESTER THREE [weeks 11-15] WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

07/08/14 10.00-16.30

TITLE

STUDIO TUTORIALS MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHERE WHO

SAM MCELHINNEY

WHAT

STUDIO

WHEN

14/08/14 10.00-16.30 PORTFOLIO PRE-REVIEW TUTORIALS

TITLE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHERE

WEEK FOURTEEN W/C 25/08/2014

WEEK THIRTEEN W/C 18/08/2014

WHO WHAT

DEADLINE

DEADLINE

WHEN

19/08/14 14.00

21/08/14 10.00-16.30

CRITICAL PAPER SUBMISSION

DEGREE SHOW SET UP/PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION

TITLE

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

WHERE WHO

ALLAN ATLEE

SAM MCELHINNEY

WHAT

ASSESSMENT

ASSESSMENT

DEGREE SHOW

WHEN

26/08/14 10.00 - 16.30

28/08/14 10.00-16.30

29/08/14 18.00

FULL PORTFOLIO INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS

OPENING

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK

SAM MCELHINNEY

SAM MCELHINNEY

ALL STAFF

TITLE WHERE WHO

WEEK FIFTEEN W/C 01/09/2014

SAM MCELHINNEY

WHAT

DEGREE SHOW

WHEN

03/09/14 18.00

TITLE WHERE WHO

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

PRIVATE VIEW MA STUDIO 1st FLOOR G BLOCK ALL STAFF

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magical fabrications REFERENCE MATERIAL - FIRST OVERVIEWS AND VOCABULARY This 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.

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. The theoretical possibility of realizing spatial systems that are based on precise patterns of spatial cognition and occupation invites renewed consideration.

Ruairi Glynn & Bob Sheil, Fabricate: Making Digital Architecture, (London: Riverside Architectural Press, 2011) ISBN 1926724097 Ruairi Glynn & Sara Shafiei, Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands, (Self Published, 2009) ISBN 0956363903 Two publications which are linked to the Bartlett, UCL and comprehensively detail recent cutting edge work done in this field.

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REFERENCE MATERIAL - PARADIGM SHIFTS These sources have been selected as they offer major shifts or baseline readings 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 and how these are relevant to architecture.

Ranulph Glanville, An Intelligent Architecture, in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, vol. 7 (Sage, 2001) pp.12-24 This paper starts a process of redefining where intelligence is found and how it should be understood as shared, a product of interaction. What this means for an intelligent building is developed, and intelligent architecture is redefined.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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