Wednesday 16th January

If the world should still exist, these are your hand-in requirements for the new term:

DIPLOMA STUDENT INFORMATION ON ESSAYS AND THESES FOR START OF NEXT TERM

Conference Reviews and Essays

The deadline for BOTH essays (1000 word Conference Review and 3000 word Essay) is 10:00am on wednesday 16th January. Please hand in TWO copies of both the Conference Review and the Essay (1 hardcopy and 1 digital copy (Word file format) on a mac-readable CDROM to Lauren/the front desk. 

Fiona will shortly send out Header sheets for both submissions.        

Theses Research Methods and Methodology Statements and Diagrams Progress Reviews

Mark and Unit tutors will review Theses Research Methods and Methodology statements (1000 Words) and project diagrams Friday 18th January (timings TBC)

You will be expected to bring for review:

1. Draft Thesis Structure/Contents Page (chapter titles and bullet points)

2. Draft Abstract and Introduction. This should summarise your argument or the specific theoretical position your Thesis will explore or  (500-1000 words)

3. Draft Methods and Methodology Statement (1000 words)

4. Draft Bibliography (using the Harvard referencing system, see the Greenwich portal study skills for this) 

5. Diagram of Thesis including (or as a separate diagram) a timetable showing a plan of work up to the final Thesis submission deadline on the 15th April 

Optional

6. Images of any relevant precedent projects you are referenceing (photographs, drawings, models, diagrams artworks, films etc)

7. Draft notes on literature and research field survey (quotes and notes on key arguments, positions and your critical and analytical comments and notes on these references) 

8. Brief research journal/diary (summarising what you have done to date)

N.B. Unit Tutors may set internal First Draft deadlines to review progress. 

DESIGN PORTFOLIO SUBMISSIONS

Please note that the interim portfolio hand-in after Christmas has been moved back toWEDNESDAY 16TH JANUARY. Please hand in your portfolio to BETWEEN 9-10am into theFirst year studio R 011 workshop.

Header sheets for your portfolios can be accessed through the student portal. Print 2x header sheets off, attach one to your portfolio and take the other to the school reception for receipting once you have handed in

Dr Julius Neubronner’s Miniature Pigeon Camera

In 1908 Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism. The invention brought him international notability after he presented it at international expositions in Dresden, Frankfurt and Paris in 1909–1911. Spectators in Dresden could watch the arrival of the camera-equipped carrier pigeons, and the photos were immediately developed and turned into postcards which could be purchased.

(All images from the National Air & Space Museum Spy Technology Section via Wikimedia Commons)



 

   

Spend a night in a rectum.

Spending a nigh inside a large replica of the human bowels isn’t very expensive. At 120 Euros a night, guests are made to feel quite comfortable with 3-star hotel amenities. On arrival, guests are taken on a stroll around the grounds and through all the important collections of collage works done by artists from around the world. A bar-cum-café allows mingling between the residents and the owners, who fill everyone in on what to expect at their hotel. Sleeping at CasAnus involves strolling through works of art including a clutch of live chickens and a huge white pod, before reaching a large, comfy bed. The silence is unnerving to a few, but others sleep very peacefully. Since it opened, CasAnus has attracted several people ranging from curious hacks to paying customers, and even overnight artists. Breakfast is included in the aforementioned price, but imagine having a meal inside a colon! mmm.

Read more here

Dear All . . . . . In advance of this evenings lecture Aeron Betsky will be in conversion with diploma units at QM15 between 13:00 - 14:00

Pleaase follow this link Architect Magazine Blog.

Star Wars fans build full-size Millennium Falcon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20536090

UNITSIXTEEN END OF TERM REVIEWS [REVISED]:

Wednesday 10am: Year 1 The Robinson Institute North Studio
Unit Staff with guest critic Mark Garcia

Thursday 13:00 - 17:00 : Aaron Betsky Review of Diploma

Presentation of Unit 16 [SH] with selected Year 1 projects by students
(To be confirmed on Wednesday).

Monday 10am: Year 2 & 3 End of Term Reviews, First Year Studio

[This should include a draft thesis direction including with reading list]
Unit Staff & guest critic Tim Norman

Postcard from Liverpool...

Was at TATE Liverpool over the weekend where the 'Thresholds' exhibition for the biennial contains a lot of work on the theme of colonialism/cultural exchange/migration... may be of some use to some of us?

Kader Attia

Untitled (Ghardaïa)

The installation presents a model of the Algerian town Ghardaïa made from cous cous, shown alongside photographs of the Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier and the French architect Fernand Pouillon, and a print of theUNESCO declaration that the town is a World Heritage site.

Link here

Oil and Sugar

Yukinori Yanagi

Pacific

Yanagi filled a series of interconnecting Perspex boxes with coloured sand to represent the flags of 49 nations. These include nations bordering the Pacific, former colonial powers, and native populations without sovereign territories such as the Maoris and Aborigines. He then released thousands of ants, whose movement distributed the sand from one flag to another. Suggestive of patterns of global migration, the ants gradually eroded the borders between different nations, creating new designs. ‘I question the concept of a nation’, Yanagi has said. ‘A nation, its border and national flag, has become an imaginary fiction.’