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Leading on from the previous post, Site Specific, as the architect I tried to carry the importance of observation (as played by the Gridders) because in order for me and […]
Leading on from the previous post, Site Specific, as the architect I tried to carry the importance of observation (as played by the Gridders) because in order for me and […]
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For Praxis 2, I will be creating a manifesto for Studio Weave, which I will then go onto critically analyse in the essay. We really like working with the Makers (Ahn, […]
An integral proposition within my scenario for Norton Hammer is the addition of a community run market incorporating produce from aCommunity garden along with utilising produce no longer sold by […]
Before visiting Fireside Housing Co-op, I was hesitant about the idea of shared communal living. Now, I’m sold! Physical Fireside housing co-op is a collective of a 4 common terraced […]
Investigative animation of how my proposed building might begin to grow out from a frame, in which the role of the architect is to design the infrastructure, to allow the […]
By making a website nortonhammercommunity.wordpress.com from the perspective of the community as way to alter my thought process to ensure the community opinions are being considered and expressed to help the project […]
Whilst researching Praxis 2 and the form of which a manifesto can take physically and linguistically, I came along a publication I’ve never heard of, but one that was world renowned […]
One way to expand the role of myself as the architect in my scenario is to host a dinner party. After seeing some elements of the scenario starting up (the […]
For the duration of this project, I have been thinking of the architect as an ‘other’ rather than myself, and through pursuing DaDA within my scenario I think I have […]
In this image, the existing billboard – a generic billboard that can be found globally – is used as just a ‘noun’ or recognised as just an ‘object’ it is […]
A happening, demonstration or event can be changed by the slightest detail, so getting to know each one of the unlikely hosts intimately is important. We are looking at these […]
In order to plan out, choreograph, conduct we need to know these unlikely host spots intimately, starting with existing 3D drawings for me or Zoe and the dancers to use […]
While Zoe walked around speaking to the other businesses around Centenary Works, she was told that getting in touch with an architect / council / landlords / events organiser / […]
Zoe, dance school teacher at Nursery Works, wants to try to use one of the billboards along Woodseats road and is interested in putting up a billboard made with the […]
Four billboards in forty metres, by JCDecaux. A annotation of how the billboards on Woodseats Road are currently used, who uses them and who makes them.
This post is just a collection of a few notes / thoughts after reading more of Johnathon Hill’s The Illegal Architect and Miwon Kwon’s One Place After Another – site […]
Preface: May I apologise for this post. This is not intended, necessarily to be read by others in relation to their project or the studio theme, but as my summary […]
Mastersvo and The Mind is a fictional project involving a charity called SYPS (Supporting Young People in Sheffield). SYPS is a mental health charity for young people aged 15-25. They […]
Although I think may have slightly misjudged my approach to the Interim Review last week, I feel that I received some pretty stellar criticism and questioning that has afforded me […]
Below is feedback from the Crit. I have elaborated based on the general conversations and thoughts I have had since. Please ignore the poor formatting, it has come straight from […]
Last week we took it in turns to present our definitions of design as distributed agency as posted on the blog. It was a really interesting discussion and we had […]
Lloyd, T. and Wilson, A. (no date) Trajectory of the everyday #5. Available at: http://www.lloyd-wilson.co.uk/html/trajectory_5.html (Accessed: 14 February 2017). At Artist House 45, the live/work position that artists Toby Lloyd […]
I feel that a part of the idea of distributed agency acts, in some ways, toward an encouragement of the rearrangement and challenge of the role of the architect within […]
Following Jonathan Wilkinson’s (graphic) design lecture last week – I was inspired by his ‘Beyond Repair: An Urban Sketchbook.’ I have tried to present my ideas from 130 Vicar Lane […]
Design as distributed agency, to me, is simply to design with people rather than for people. This change in intent identifies the role of the so-called “end user” and in […]
design verb To conceive and plan out the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is made. distributed adjective Divided and given out […]
Originally my assumptions of distributed agency within design were that it led to a more bureaucratic, slow and tedious design process with limiting faculties. I believed this as it is […]
Design as distributed agency is seen in all projects related to architecture and never stops. Even the design and production of something as small as of a piece of furniture […]
“Architecture is too important to be left to architects” (De Carlo, 1970/2005, p13.) Architecture is omnipresent, the history of architecture is intertwined with that of human, political and cultural […]
To me, design as distributed agency is a collective method of working, where influence on the design is actively encouraged from those who might not usually be included in the […]
Below, is a project overview of Caistor Arts and Heritage Centre, which I believe is a prime example of design as a distributed agency. It is a project I was […]
This post follows on from my previous post regarding our studio phrase of ‘Design as Distributed Agency’, explaining in more detail the initiative that allows for distributed agency in the […]
My simple response to the phrase ‘Design as Distributed Agency’ is; giving others the change to impact a design. My issue with the initial interpretation is the breadth: Does this […]
‘Accessibility’ is forming the basis of my understanding of ‘Design as Distributed Agency’. If we are trying to understand design through other people’s eyes, we need to be reachable to […]
Diary entry #1 – 3rd may 2024 Well it’s starting the petrol stations are starting to close down, God knows where I’m guna fill up now, suppose we have seen […]
Kenneth Frampton is a renowned British Architect and critic, known best for seminal work, “Towards a Critical Regionalism: 6 Points for an Architecture of Resistance”. I’d heard of this work […]
These first person stories came out of an excercise undertaken in studio, that was unbelievably helpful in isolating the process of my scenario. The main explanatory actors are The Mechanic […]
Amongst Other Things. “…what can I do about it?” He snapped. His head dropped. With forehead resting upon inflated fingers and his chin either buried within or sitting atop of […]
Carina I have been working as a Creative Producer at SYPS (Supporting Young People in Sheffield charity) since 2009. It will be really sad to say goodbye to our premises […]
Phil Proctor, Managing Director at Robert Sorby: “I work for Robert Sorby and I have been struggling to recruit new staff as the older people who work here start to […]
Archie Workman, a lengthsman who maintains the up-keep of roads (including mending signs, cutting vegetation and unblocking drains) shares his fascination of drain and manhole covers that he collects and […]
Note: “Stories from a self-managed suburb” is a narrative based on the scenario and brief I’ve established so far through research of the site and precedence. It is an account […]
My name is Mark. I’m a knife maker but also like to work on other projects involving design and crafts. I live on Athol Road with my wife; my daughter […]
A soft Scottish accent reads the opening monologue of the 1996 cult classic, Trainspotting. Mark Renton’s monologue acts as a satirical manifesto for the life of the Edinburgh based group […]
The story of how are new street came to be.
A Cycling ‘Heat Map’ based off Strava data, showing the most commonly used cycle routes. There’s clear routes though the site which extent primarily out towards Dore and the Peaks. […]
Experiential. This ones a bit of a long one, sorry! 797 Words.. Although not directly relevant to other works that I have been pursuing, shortly after I arrived at home […]