https://designstudio18.com Design Studio 18 Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:14:43 +0000 https://designstudio18.com en https://designstudio18.com/Pinup Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:05:59 +0000 Design Studio 18 https://designstudio18.com/Pinup Cross Crit 116.12.2021 Link to Microsoft Teams provided in emailDS18 Virtual Space https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MDQwZWU3YzEtMTY3OS00Y2NmLTg1NzQtMTNkZWI1N2I4MjEz@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%22bb3c97ff-11b5-4b37-92cf-1897b2d8766b%22,%22Oid%22:%22108e8b81-99ca-4d6c-b4e5-d0b1383d9552%22%7D Pin-up Session Plan Morning session10:00 - 13:00 Guests Critiques:Richard Difford (DS23) Lindsay Bremner Emma Colthurst 10:00 - Carl Fletcher 10:30 - Kirsten Davis 11:00 - Justyna Lesny 11:30 - Georgios Malliaropoulos 12:00 - Guy Sinclair 12:30 - Daria-Suzanne Donovetsky 13:00 - Closing comments LUNCH Afternoon session14:00 - 18:00 Guests Critiques: Ben Stringer (DS12) Christina Nan Tom Benson 14:00 - XXXX Chada Elalami 14:30 - Vilde Bakkeli Sand 15:00 - XXXX Sully Muhammad 15:30 - Tas Mojnu 16:00 - &lt;BREAK&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; 16:30 - Yuechuan Xi 17:00 - Arvindaa Balamurugan 17:30 - Nicholas Tsangaris 18:00 - Closing comments https://designstudio18.com/ALLBOARDS Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:28:09 +0000 Design Studio 18 https://designstudio18.com/ALLBOARDS Almu Tesorero Amy Lee Chantal Barnes Daria Donovetsky Denise Carcangiu Gary Chan Hannah Pinsent Helen Windsor Jamie Williams Justyna Lesny Kasia Maskowicz Lizzie Terry Nikhil Berwal Seni Agunpopo Sully Muhammad Tas Mojnu https://designstudio18.com/Temp-References Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:28:43 +0000 Design Studio 18 https://designstudio18.com/Temp-References Abouts page selection (update Aug 2021): Upcoming: Hannah Pinsent, Helen Windsor &amp; Elizabeth Terry: Radical Architecture Practice for Sustainability (RAPS) Confrence and Echibition, Bristol, 2021 Daria-Suzanne Donovetsky, Hannah Pinsent, Jamie Williams, Elizabeth Terry, Nikhil Berwal, Muhtasim Mojnu, Seni Agunpopo: MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Projections 16 | Measuring the City: The Power of Urban Metrics, Visualizing Cities, 2021 Elizabeth Terry, KooZA/Rch Interview:A Carbon Re-wilding: Decolonisation of Contentious Territories, 2021 Anthropocene Teaching Practices in Architecture, Territorial Matters and Interfaces Workshop, TU Berlin &amp; Field Stations, 2021 Seni Agunpopo, KooZA/Rch Interview: Peat Observations, 2021 Seni Agunpopo, Dezeen, University of Westminster Feature, 2021Helen Windsor, Shoaib Rawat Award, Third Place, UoW, 2021 Jamie Williams, KooZA/Rch Interview: The Didactic Kingdom Of Nowhere in Particular, 2021 Kate Hosking, KooZA/Rch Interview: Black Ice Form, 2021 100 Day Studio Talk, Architecture Foundation, studio and student presentations, 2020 Katie Dechow, Dezeen Virtual Design Festival, 2020 Rachel Wakelin, RIBA Silver Medal, Serjeant Winner 2019 - RIBA Raymonde Bieler, One Symposium: Low Energy Architecture, panelist, 2019 Blueprint for the Future - Blueprint Magazine, 2019 Raymonde Bieler, RIBA West London Architects Group Award for Best Student in MArch Year 1, 2019 Content Contribution, Studio Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life Resources, 2019 Pamphlet Architecture 36 Competition, 2016 - Honourable Mention for “Thinking Architecture from the Maldives” Studio Book: Energy, Architecture, Matter, 2016 John Cook, RIBA President’s Medals Silver nominee - 2015 &lt;a full studio bibliogrpahy 2013-2021 can be seen here&gt; Design Studio 18 Bibliography AwardsHelen Windsor, Shoaib Rawat Award, Third Place, 2021 - UoW Rachel Wakelin, RIBA Silver Medal, Serjeant Winner 2019 - RIBA Presidents Medals Reviews 2019 - AJ President’s Medals Silver, 2019 - RIBAJ Vol. 126, Issue 12. Charlotte Birch, Blueprint for the Future, Blue Riband Prize, 2018 - Blueprint Magazine, Issue 360. Raymonde Bieler, CLAWSA Prize for Best First Year M.Arch student, 2018 - UoW Alice Thomposon, Detail Magazine Student Award, Tech Prize, 2016 - Detail Magazine &amp; UoW J. Cook - RIBA Silver Medal Nomination, 2015, RIBA ...I feel like we should put this ;) Any other prizes or nomiations? PublicationsSeni, Dezeen Schools Show, 2021, Dezeen Hannah, Helen, Lizzie - RAPs Bristol Tas, Daria, Jamie, Nikhil, Lizzie, Hannah, Seni MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Projections 16 | Measuring the City: The Power of Urban Metrics, Visualizing Cities, 2021 Jamie williams KooZA/Rch Interview Kate Hosking, KooZA/Rch Interview, Black Ice Form, 2021 Katie Derchow, Virtual Design Festival, 2020 - Dezeen Pamphlet Architecture 36 Competition, 2016 - Honourable Mention for “Thinking Architecture from the Maldives” Energy, Architecture, Matter 2016 - Studio Book In Real Life Resources, content contribution 2019 - Studio Olafur Eliasson BP - EDIT EXPO, Torronto exhibition of ‘that bloody map’ 2017 John other drawing exhibition at a similar time? Laura - anything else from past years ? MonAss stuff: Studio Broadsheet, 2019 - DS18 Studio Broadsheet, 2018 - DS18 Studio Broadsheet, 2017 - DS18 Monsoons [+ other] Grounds 2020 - Monsoon Assemblages Monsoons [+ other] Waters 2019 - Monsoon Assemblages Monsoons [+ other] Airs 2017 - Monsoon Assemblages - LINDSAY provided more approprate citations of student work within the monsass books above which she would prefer. see list below... (this is what kickstarted the studio bibligoraphy approach... haha) L. Bremner and G. Trower (eds.). (2017). Monsoon [+ other] Airs. London: Monsoon Assemblages Tom Benson and Calvin Sin. (2017). ‘Interview with Sean Lally.’ In Monsoon [+ other) Airs, ed. L. Bremner and G. Trower, 087-095. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Tom Benson. (2017). ‘Abstract simulation of acid rain deforming layered plates.’In Monsoon [+ other) Airs, ed. L. Bremner and G. Trower, 096-077. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Cid Schuler. (2017). ‘Simulation of a Thunder Clap.’ In Monsoon [+ other) Airs, ed. L. Bremner and G. Trower, 026-027. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Calvin Sin. (2017). ‘Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal.’ Monsoon [+ other) Airs, ed. L. Bremner and G. Trower, 107. London: Monsoon Assemblages. L. Bremner (ed.). (2019). Monsoon [+ other] Waters. London: Monsoon Assemblages.Constantina Avraamides. (2019). ‘Simulation of water percolation.’ In Monsoon [+ other] Waters, ed. L. Bremner, 044. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Sarah Bass, Charlotte Birch and Georgia Trower. (2019). ‘Interview with Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha.’ In Monsoon [+ other] Waters, ed. L. Bremner, 103-121. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Sarah Bass. (2019). ‘Simulation of sediment dynamics on a river bed.’ In Monsoon [+ other] Waters, ed. L. Bremner, 148-051. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Tom Benson. (2019). ‘Hydrological flows.’ In Monsoon [+ other] Waters, ed. L. Bremner, 206. London: Monsoon Assemblages. ‘Section through the sky over India, 23 November 2017.’ In Monsoon [+ other] Waters, ed. L. Bremner, 008-009. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Charlotte Birch. (2019). ‘Simulation of turbulence caused by sandmining.’ In Monsoon [+ other] Waters, ed. L. Bremner, 046. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Laura Nica. (2019). ‘Simulation of water droplets.’ In Monsoon [+ other] Waters, ed. L. Bremner, 183, 222. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Georgia Trower. (2019). ‘Simulation of a fiddler crab burrowing into sediment.’ In Monsoon [+ other] Waters, ed. L. Bremner, 088-089. London: Monsoon Assemblages. L. Bremner and J. Cook (eds.). (2020). Monsoon [+ other] Grounds. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Raymond Bieler. (2020). ‘Making Ground at Chaung Gyi, Myanmar.’ In Monsoon [+ other] Grounds, ed. L. Bremner and J. Cook, 151-169. London: Monsoon Assemblages. Fiona Grieve. (2020). ‘The Shwe Recuperation Corridor.’ In Monsoon [+ other] Grounds, ed. L. Bremner and J. Cook, 200-212. London: Monsoon Assemblages. TalksBerlin Athropocence talk Architecture Foundation 2020, 100 Day Studio Talk Air Architecture + Other Climates, Lecture, 2019 - Oslo School of Architecture and Design Other studio talks / presentations? Durring MonAss - Lindasy must have done some durring the trips. Johns additions (16.09.2020) Awards: ‘Visualising the Future of the City’, CAA and RIBA International Competition 2015:&nbsp;First prize. Nominations: 2015: Nominated for the RIBA President’s Medals Silver Exhibitions: 2015 : RIBA CAA 50th Anniversary and International Summit : ‘Visualising The Future Of The City’, London. 2015 : ‘Drawn to the Future’ Exhibition, The Building Centre, London. 2016 : RIBA ‘Presidents wall’ rotating exhibit, Portland Place, London. 2017 : ‘Postcards from the Anthropocene’ Exhibition and symposium, University of Edinburgh. 2017 : ‘Ambiguous Territory’ Exhibition and symposium at the University of Michigan and Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York Publications featured in: 2016 : Dr. Paul Cureton: ‘Strategies for Landscape Representation’, Routledge, London 2016 : John O’Reilly + Dr Jamie Brassett: ‘Philosophy and Design’, Springer, Netherlands. Upcoming (best leave for now): 2021 : C. Dwyre, C. Perry, D. Salomon, K. Velikov: ‘Ambiguous Territory’, Actar, New York. 2021 : B. Cincik + T.Torres-Campos: ‘Postcards from the Anthropocene’, DPR, Barcelona. FROM OLD ABOUT PAGE: Architecture Foundation 2020, 100 Day Studio Talk Virtual Design Festival 2020 - Dezeen RIBA Silver Medal, Serjeant Winner 2019 - RIBA Presidents Medals Reviews 2019 - AJ Blueprint for the Future 2019 - Blueprint Magazine In Real Life Resources, content contribution 2019 - Studio Olafur Eliasson Postcards from the Anthropocene 2017 - Exhibition and symposium, University of Edinburgh. Ambiguous Territory 2017 - Exhibition and symposium at the University of Michigan and Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New Yor Pamphlet Architecture 36 Competition, 2016 - Honourable Mention for “Thinking Architecture from the Maldives” Energy, Architecture, Matter 2016 - Studio Book RIBA ‘Presidents wall’ rotating exhibit 2016 - Portland Place, London. Nominated for the RIBA President’s Medals Silver - 2015 First prize: Visualising the Future of the City 2015 - CAA and RIBA International Competition. RIBA CAA 50th Anniversary and International Summit 2015 - ‘Visualising The Future Of The City’, London. Drawn to the Future Exhibition 2015 - The Building Centre, London. By Others:Monsoons [+ other] Grounds 2020 - Monsoon Assemblages Monsoons [+ other] Waters 2019 - Monsoon Assemblages Monsoons [+ other] Airs 2017 - Monsoon Assemblages https://designstudio18.com/Home-Page Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:14:43 +0000 Design Studio 18 https://designstudio18.com/Home-Page <img width="800" height="448" width_o="800" height_o="448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4dbd20d22911087f79c6ab2698af7bce02fc70869b7e4b9bab9e1a0ea4da0709/DS18_About_Speed-Reading_Final.gif" data-mid="112087042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/4dbd20d22911087f79c6ab2698af7bce02fc70869b7e4b9bab9e1a0ea4da0709/DS18_About_Speed-Reading_Final.gif" /> <img width="400" height="796" width_o="400" height_o="796" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fdd741718103c1157508baca48a8c91b72be8435ba84ccff1df76cf6832b5900/2_DS18-Instagram-Scroll_Optimised.gif" data-mid="112087039" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/fdd741718103c1157508baca48a8c91b72be8435ba84ccff1df76cf6832b5900/2_DS18-Instagram-Scroll_Optimised.gif" /> <img width="600" height="424" width_o="600" height_o="424" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afc0cd855d29bf9f779370687a2858824be077120e8ef275f6112cf846dbb3b6/DS18_Carbon-Transitions_Gif.gif" data-mid="112087040" border="0" alt="Studio 2020/21 : Carbon Transitions, UK" data-caption="Studio 2020/21 : Carbon Transitions, UK" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/afc0cd855d29bf9f779370687a2858824be077120e8ef275f6112cf846dbb3b6/DS18_Carbon-Transitions_Gif.gif" /> <img width="800" height="450" width_o="800" height_o="450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c2fd14ba18e374cdddbab8920bc2968ab75b784b45ac5857c6e2b3e4a695f29/DS18_Totem_Gif.gif" data-mid="112087038" border="0" alt="Studio 2019/20 : +Other Climates, Norway" data-caption="Studio 2019/20 : +Other Climates, Norway" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/2c2fd14ba18e374cdddbab8920bc2968ab75b784b45ac5857c6e2b3e4a695f29/DS18_Totem_Gif.gif" /> https://designstudio18.com/Project-Nav Wed, 13 May 2020 20:52:14 +0000 Design Studio 18 https://designstudio18.com/Project-Nav ︎ ︎ https://designstudio18.com/About Wed, 13 May 2020 20:52:13 +0000 Design Studio 18 https://designstudio18.com/About AboutDesign Studio 18 (DS18) is a postgraduate MArch Studio at the School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster,in London. The digital platform hosts the extraordinary creative student work undertaken with the main purpose to: to present and archive the programmes, research &amp; creative student outputs each year; to position the work of DS18 within the broader intellectual, scientific and aesthetic fields;&nbsp; to invite dialogue and debate for new organisational systems in the global state of ecological and climatic emergency;&nbsp; to provide a reference for past and future iteration of the studio paths Ethos Climate Change / Un-Sustainability The context of our global climate and ecological emergency provides the foundation for all DS18 design research investigations. Alongside the sciences, we believe that the arts and architecture has a critical role in playing out and exploring future scenarios, testing the effects of changing environmental processes upon life and design, whilst using the project as a tool to communicate and represent these often intangible global threats to new audiences and in new ways. Data / Computational Tools We aim to ground projects through directed and appropriately rigorous levels of research. We gather and build datasets, employ cartographic methods and experimental diagrams to record, illustrate, and analyse these wide ranging conditions and complex relationships. We use computational design tools to process these, to simulate and explore them across ranging scales, and prepare or directly use their outputs to inform an evidenced based design process. Design / Representation We encourage individually led and original design projects, exploring multi-programme briefs and new typologies, driven by context and of appropriate project scale. Our objective is to deliver these through new and creative forms of representation - to celebrate complexity and communicate the vast assemblage and entanglement of project themes, relationships, scales, actors and material. Ethos unchanged since 2019 Studio Publications, Awards &amp; Talks Chada Elamami, KooZA/Rch Portoflio: Rad(iation/ical) Atheneum &amp; The Transient Estate, 2023 Carl Fletcher, Scollar to the Norman Foster Foundation, Energy Workshop, Madrid, 2023 Chada Elamami, Justyna Lesny &amp; Kirsten Davis, Radical Architecture Practice for Sustainability (RAPS) Confrence and Exhibition, Eindhoven Confrence, 2022 Georgios Malliaropoulos, Scollar to the Norman Foster Foundation, Sustainability Workshop Madrid, 2022 Kirsten Davies, KooZA/Rch Portoflio: Saline Landscapes, Dungeness UK, 2022 Daria Donovetsky, KooZA/Rch Portoflio: The Liquid Landscape, Dungeness UK, 2022 Justyna Lesny, KooZA/Rch Portoflio: The Lichen Incubator, Dungeness UK, 2022 Jamie Williams,&nbsp;exhibited at Imagine Glasgow 2021, COP26 edition, New Glasgow Society. Jamie Williams, MIT’s Projection 16 – Visualising Cities Awards, 2021. Winner for Best Visualization Award: The Atlas of the Carbon Economy Hannah Pinsent, Helen Windsor &amp; Elizabeth Terry: Radical Architecture Practice for Sustainability (RAPS) Confrence and Exhibition, Bristol, 2021 Daria-Suzanne Donovetsky, Hannah Pinsent, Jamie Williams, Elizabeth Terry, Nikhil Berwal, Muhtasim Mojnu, Seni Agunpopo:&nbsp;MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Projections 16 | Measuring the City: The Power of Urban Metrics, Visualizing Cities, 2021 Elizabeth Terry, KooZA/Rch Interview: A Carbon Re-wilding: Decolonisation of Contentious Territories, 2021 Anthropocene Teaching Practices in Architecture, Territorial Matters and Interfaces Workshop, TU Berlin &amp; Field Stations, 2021 Seni Agunpopo, KooZA/Rch Interview: Peat Observations, 2021 Seni Agunpopo, Dezeen, University of Westminster Feature, 2021Helen Windsor,&nbsp;Shoaib Rawat Award, Third Place, UoW, 2021 Jamie Williams, KooZA/Rch Interview: The Didactic Kingdom Of Nowhere in Particular, 2021 Kate Hosking, KooZA/Rch Interview: Black Ice Form, 2021 100 Day Studio Talk, Architecture Foundation, studio and student presentations, 2020 Katie Dechow, Dezeen Virtual Design Festival, 2020 Rachel Wakelin, RIBA Silver Medal, Serjeant Winner 2019 - RIBA Raymonde Bieler, One Symposium: Low Energy Architecture, panelist, 2019 Blueprint for the Future - Blueprint Magazine, 2019 Raymonde Bieler,&nbsp; RIBA West London Architects Group Award for Best Student in MArch Year 1, 2019 Content Contribution, Studio Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life Resources, 2019 Pamphlet Architecture 36 Competition, 2016 - Honourable Mention for “Thinking Architecture from the Maldives” Studio Book: Energy, Architecture, Matter, 2016 John Cook, RIBA President’s Medals Silver nominee - 2015 &lt;a full studio bibliogrpahy 2013-2021 can be seen here&gt; Studio LeadsJohn Cook is an architect and a research associate at Monsoon Assemblages, using novel data and computational processes to explore and communicate the South Asian Monsoon across ranging mediums, spatial and temporal scales - with work exhibited at Broken Nature, XXII Milan Triennale Milan 2019 and Venice Biennale 2021.&nbsp; Climate Cartographics coming soon... Ben Pollock is an architect, researcher, and educator with experience at Hopkins, Fletcher Priest, and Jestico Whiles Architects where his work was primarily in the educational sector and large-scale commercial retrofits. In 2020, Ben co-founded 4D Island, a non-profit design research practice using computational design for spatial intelligences, material insights, and climate adaptation with frontline communities in the Maldives. Notable projects include COP26 and Weaving the Nakaiy, a Prince Claus Fund and Goethe-Institut’s funded climate art project. He is also a founding members of Climate Cartographics, a UKRI grant-funded design research studio specialising in climate, data, and cartographic visualisation. Laura Nica is a prize-winning Architect, Digital Designer and Lecturer, with specialisms in computational design, material research, digital fabrication and simulation tools. Founder of Laura Nica Studio, the practice focuses on sustainable restorations, creative installations and regenerative masterplans. Her previous experience included working at Foster + Partners, dRMM, Giles Miller Studio and Fathom Architects. Currently, a PhD/Doctoral Researcher candidate, collaborating with the Zaha Hadid Foundation &amp; the University of Westminster; with research interests in digital archival procedures, pre/post digital apparatuses, models, and architectural interfaces. &nbsp; Lindsay &amp; Roberto, DS18&nbsp;2013-2019 Lindsay Bremner is a research architect whose work focuses on human-more-than-human entanglements in oceanic worlds. She currently holds a European Research Council for Monsoon Assemblages (2016-2021), a project exploring these themes in three Bay of Bengal cities - Chennai, Dhaka and Yangon. She began her academic and professional life in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she published, lectured and exhibited widely on the transformation of Johannesburg after apartheid.&nbsp;She taught architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, at Temple University in Philadelphia, and at MIT as a Visiting Professor, before taking up her current post as Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster. Bremner holds a B.Arch from the University of Cape Town and an M.Arch and DSc.Arch from the University of the Witwatersrand. Roberto Botazzi is an architect, researcher, and educator based in London. He is currently the BPro Urban design programme director at The Bartlett School of Architecture and teaches in Research Cluster 14. Between 2016 and 2019, DS18 was sponsored by Monsoon Assemblages, a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 679873). For more information, go here: http://monass.org/ StudentsIn addition, the studio would be nothing without the efforts, criticality and intrigue of each year's student cohort &lt;3 Affiliations &amp; CollaboratorsARUP’s Advanced Digital Engineering Group Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment (FRAM) We support climate action Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) Students Climate Action Network (StuCAN) Contact j.cook2@westminster.ac.uk b.pollock@westminster.ac.uk l.nica@westminster.ac.uk © 2025 DS18 &amp; Students Except where otherwise noted, all contents on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonComercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. For further information, higher resuluition images or for republication - please contact us Studio As Book See page here &gt;&gt;&gt; <img width="4482" height="2954" width_o="4482" height_o="2954" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/adef729557eee2fec9b4d5bd37ce13fef6336bd15457ee72ebe74c8b7c908c69/IMG_5046.jpg" data-mid="235842819" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/adef729557eee2fec9b4d5bd37ce13fef6336bd15457ee72ebe74c8b7c908c69/IMG_5046.jpg" /> https://designstudio18.com/Archive Fri, 15 May 2020 07:48:56 +0000 Design Studio 18 https://designstudio18.com/Archive Studio Archive2013-2020 https://designstudio18.com/2013-14-Fracked-Urbanism Thu, 02 Jul 2020 08:43:00 +0000 Design Studio 18 https://designstudio18.com/2013-14-Fracked-Urbanism Architecture, Energy, Matter 1: Fracked Urbanism - 2013/14United KingdomLindsay Bremner &amp; Roberto Bottazzi ︎︎︎ Home ︎︎︎ Previous // Next ︎︎︎ <img width="1000" height="613" width_o="1000" height_o="613" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f2a60c9c185ec691c0640040ed8f1a4539e3fc21bc473af83bbcfc44009b719/367848.png" data-mid="76279880" border="0" alt="Caption" data-caption="Caption" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f2a60c9c185ec691c0640040ed8f1a4539e3fc21bc473af83bbcfc44009b719/367848.png" /> This studio was framed by three big, interrelated ideas: 1 The Anthropocene, the idea that since human life began on earth, our species has interfered with it to such an extent that new geological conditions have emerged. This means that it is no longer possible to distinguish between what used to be called nature and what used to be called culture. Instead we now live in a complex technically mediated system of material, energies and information flows, evolving according to its own history in ways we do not necessarily control and barely understand. 2 Thinking about architecture and urbanism as matter, energy and data i.e. as density, flow and information. Buildings, cities and infrastructures are intensities within the Anthropocene, mobilising it in ever evolving ways. These systems were analysed and visualised in space and time using computational tools and intervened in through design. 3 Architecture, infrastructure and urbanism are deeply entangled with geology. They are geological agents, mobilising geological matter and speeding up geological time. Buildings in fact, are geology. How can this intimacy be exploited through design? How can design intervene strategically and instrumentally to reshape or redirect flows of geological matter, energy and data? During the first semester of the year, we investigated these ideas via the shale gas fracturing (fracking) industries in the USA and the UK. We identified risks associated with fracking, such as geological instability, water pollution, health-related disease, biodiversity loss etc. and developed spatial and architectural strategies to address them. These were spatialised as masterplans and prototypes. During the second semester of the year, we developed architectural propositions in response to pervasive global conditions of anthropogenic climate change, ambient intelligence, information technology and the privatization of the public sphere on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. We developed hybrid architectural programmes (Micro Public Places) that combined new institutional architectures, buildings, urbanism and computation. Their objective was to re-animate public life and engage the public imaginary in issues related to resource extraction, the Anthropocene and global warming. Study trip to Berlin and field trip to the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. Critics: Nabil Ahmed, Laura Allen, Nick Axel, David Dernie, Tom Fox, Jon Goodbun, Kate Heron, Janike Kampevold Larsen, Adrian Lohoud, Constance Lou, Lilit Mnatsakanyan, Douglas Murphy, John Palmesino, Rosa Schiano Phan, Francecso Sebregondi, Ann-Sofi-Ronnskog, Ronald Wall, Liam Young. Thanks: Alan Holiday, Chairman Dorset Geologists Association for the geological tour of the Isle of Purbeck Christos Antonopoulos and Jeg Dudley for assistance in digital workshops https://designstudio18.com/2014-15-Energy-Economies Thu, 02 Jul 2020 08:52:04 +0000 Design Studio 18 https://designstudio18.com/2014-15-Energy-Economies Architecture, Energy, Matter 2: Energy Economies the Karoo - 2014/15South AfricaLindsay Bremner &amp; Roberto Bottazzi ︎︎︎ Home ︎︎︎ Previous // Next ︎︎︎ <img width="4752" height="3168" width_o="4752" height_o="3168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5a8b466bb433c973c1b840c31827600ea3d67a17d8ec69285c72ff1ffe5a138/IMG_4193.JPG" data-mid="76280650" border="0" alt="Petroglyph rock carving - Karoo, South Africa" data-caption="Petroglyph rock carving - Karoo, South Africa" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5a8b466bb433c973c1b840c31827600ea3d67a17d8ec69285c72ff1ffe5a138/IMG_4193.JPG" /> “What we have then is a kind of 'wisdom of the rocks,’ a way of listening o the creative, expressive flow of matter for guidance on how to work with our own organic strata.”1 During 2014/15, DS18 sited its investigation into architectures of energy, geology and computation in Graaff Reinet, a small historic tow n in the Karoo in South Africa where hydraulic shale gas licenses were pending. These were opposed by legal challenges and community activism and have subsequently been withdrawn due to the drop in global oil prices. The studio began with a series of computational exercises to investigate and simulate the behaviour of matter in motion using the fluid simulation software Realflow. This was undertaken as a way of visualising material processes and beginning to cultivate an aesthetic sensibility to be developed later in the studio. At the same time students mined and represented data on South Africa's resources and how they are transformed into energy and value and circulated through society. After a 10-day long field trip to Cape Town and the Karoo, the studio developed energy masterplans for Graaff Reinet and the surrounding hamlets using solar, wind, shale gas, solid waste or more experimental technologies. Each student then identified an architectural project within their strategy and fully realised and represented it in spatial, material and aesthetic terms. Central to the design agenda promoted by DS18 is computational software, particularly Rhino, Grasshopper and Realflow. 1; Manuel DeLanda, "Non-organic Life" in Incorporations Zone 6, eds. Jonathan Crary &amp; Sanford Kwinter (New York: Urzone, Inc., 1992) p 143 Guest Critics:Christos Antanopoulos, Jennifer Beningfteld, Richard Difford, Jeg Dudley, Neil Dusheiko, Jon Goodbun, Dirk Lellau, Costas Grigoriadis, Jennifer Juritz, Constance Lau, Lorenzo Pezzani, Dimitar Pouchnikov, Francesco Sebregondi, Maria Veltcheva, Filip Visnjic, Etienne Turpin, Robert Wall, Alex Watts Thanks:The Reinet Foundation for sponsorship for the field trip to South Africa; Jan Glazewski for organising the Shale Gas Symposium at the University of Cape Town; Christos Antanopoulos, Jennifer Beningfield, Stefan Cramer, Jeg Dudley, Ian Fraser, Derek Light Gabby Shawcross and Robert Wall for additional input to the studio More can be read here https://designstudio18.com/2015-16-Emergent-Energies-in-a-Coral-Archipelago Thu, 02 Jul 2020 08:56:05 +0000 Design Studio 18 https://designstudio18.com/2015-16-Emergent-Energies-in-a-Coral-Archipelago Architecture, Energy, Matter 3: Designing with Emergent Energies in a Coral Archipelago - 2015/16MaldivesLindsay Bremner &amp; Roberto Bottazzi ︎︎︎ Home ︎︎︎ Previous // Next ︎︎︎ <img width="5410" height="3601" width_o="5410" height_o="3601" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/858842bc8747654c3029bb8a62b8e7765ef7a598b0951c3631b9cc5363ac741c/south-male-atoll-rgb1.jpg" data-mid="76280806" border="0" alt="Caption" data-caption="Caption" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/858842bc8747654c3029bb8a62b8e7765ef7a598b0951c3631b9cc5363ac741c/south-male-atoll-rgb1.jpg" /> In 2015/16, DS18 based its design investigations into architecture, energy and matter in the Maldives, the coral archipelago running down the centre of the Indian Ocean. Since the underwater cabinet meeting held by former President Nasheed in 2009 to sign a document calling for global cuts in carbon emissions, the Maldives has been associated in the global imaginary with low-lying nations threatened by sea level rise. We investigated this and other emergent energies in the archipelago as grounds for design. We did so, in part to critique a model of archipelago urbanism promo ted by architectural theorists since the I 970's, of architecture as a collection of value laden fragments floating in a value-less metropolitan sea. Instead, we thought and made architecture as an element of (rather than in opposition to) the emergent, non-linear dynamics of the archipelagic ocean. The studio interrogated how and what to design in such highly dynamic and fragile conditions. This involved analysing various material flows – geophysical and socio-political – at work on the Maldives and proposing a series of architectural and urban interventions able to adapt, evolve and proliferate in them. In the first semester, students modelled physical elements like waves, sea levels, winds and sand at a local scale, and other no less material flows of things - capital, tourists, building materials etc. - that move through the Maldives, but stretch across the scale of the globe. The first were computationally simulated, whereas the second resulted in data-driven maps and visualisations. In the second semester, students developed design proposals at the inter section of the two orders of flows they had modelled. Guest CritiquesAdam Holloway. Andrew Baker-Falkner (Tate Harmer Architects), Jed Baron (East), Stefania Boccaletti, David Chandler. John Cook (Birds Portchmouth RussumArchitects), Anthony Engi-Meacock (Assemble), Annette Fierro, Chris Green, Kostas Grigoriadis, Susannah Hagan, Julie Hagopain, Luke Heslop, Karin Jaschke, Hseng Tai Lintner, Michael O'Hanlon (Gianni Botsford Architects), Isis Nunez Ferrera, John Palmesino, Ana Pia Catala, Douglas Spencer; Roberte Trempe, Filip Visnjic, Alex Watt (Eric Parry Architects), Fiona Zisch Thanks to:Christos Antonopolous (Foster and Partners), Jeg Dudley (AKT II), Lorraine Leeson, Ghaanim Mohamed. Mark Pelling, Next Limit Technologies