UnitSixteen and former DS14, Exhibit in 

Bahrain’s 2013 Spring Festival of Culture.

IMAGINE: Fictional Architecture And 

The Liberation of Ideas

As part of the annual spring festival of culture in Bahrain, the Shaikh Ebrahim Centre presents “IMAGINE: Fictional Architecture And The Liberation of Ideas” an exhibition of experimental architectural drawings. With this show the centre continues its series of exhibitions focusing on the world of architecture and design which started with the 2010 exhibition of Zaha Hadid’s design objects and paintings in Bin Matar House - the first in the Gulf region.

Greenwich has a considerable presence in this year’s exhibition, focusing for the first time on architectural drawings.  

"In these projects of final year graduate students at some of Europe’s leading architectural schools, these drawings and three dimensional objects find there greatest sense of personal expression and liberty to explore fictional domains. Prior to entering the world of real architecture, where illustrative and technical drawings dominate, architecture students are free to create utopian and imaginary projects." Melissa Enders-Bhatia Head of Art and Exhibitions at the Shikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Centre for Culture and Research, Bahrain

United Nations Stratford City:

The foreground Image above was by Adis Dobardzic Diploma Unit16, 2012, 

Conceived in a previous era, the United Nations is re-imagined, geocentrically realigned to a shifting world order along the meridian. A scene from the Anthropocene, this new landscape of the United Nations begins as a flat sterile gridded surface, a multifunctional fertile plain with architectural outcrops, moments of false geology.

Fluctuating sub assemblies, immature buildings are prepared in advance, empathising with volatile political events, new structures emerge with renewed stability, set against a backdrop of such paradox.

Caught someplace between construction, use, abandonment and renewal, these new monuments in the making, are potent signifiers of delirious speculation, where history is continually remade.

The exhibition was designed and curated by Elke Frotscher and Florian Frotscher, suported by Simon Herron and Susanne Isa, work exhibited was from The Bartlett, University of Greenwich, Oxford Brookes and University of Westminster graduates.

Those former unit Sixteeners and DS14 exhibited also include . . .

Meor Haris Bahrin , Luke Chandresinghe, Michael Dean, Mark Hatter, Sun Hwang, Jinhyuk  Ko, Gill Lambert, Christopher Leung, Jorg Majer, Tania Okpa, Pernilla Ohrstedt, Yumi Saito, Matthew Wilkinson, Nick Szczepaniak