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FABRICATE: Conference and Call for Work

Looks like it should be an interesting event.. note that call for work has been extended to 20 September 2010.. Conference and Call for Work FABRICATE International Peer Reviewed Conference and Publication London 15–16 April 2011 The Bartlett School of Architecture announces FABRICATE. A London Conference to assess the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century. Discussion on key themes will include: digita...

Sky-Watcher/Papymerlin Panorama Robot

Below is a demonstration by Aaron Estrada of his panoramic Sky-Watcher/Papymerlin Panorama Robot. Sky-Watcher/Papymerlin Panorama Robot from LoRdTaNgEnT on Vimeo. Aaron states that the kit, all-in, is still less expensive than any other dedicated panorama robot on the market yet in many ways more flexible. For example, it can be programed to do custom shooting patterns, “gigapans” and even time-lapse. The software has a great GUI and integration on the N810. On top of it all, the ...

FABRICATE

FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE will bring together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation. Discussion on key themes wi...

Alpha-ville 2010

Alpha-ville is the new London Festival of Digital Arts, Music and Culture Festival that will take place at the Whitechapel Gallery and Rich Mix Cultural Foundation on the 17th & 18th September 2010. Expect 2 days of live music and visual performances with a theme of Visionary Cities, including: LIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC /// LIVE CINEMA PERFORMANCES /// INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS /// 3D AUDIO-VISUAL PERFORMANCES /// MOVING IMAGE COMPETITION /// OVER 4 HOURS OF DIGITAL SCREENINGS /// BARTLETT SC...

Camp for Climate Action 2010: RBS-Break the Bank! in Edinburgh

**Camp for Climate Action 2010** *RBS-Break the Bank! in Edinburgh* Four days of training and direct action: 21st-24th August http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-md598WLIL4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyfeMcnVw The Camp for Climate Action is a grassroots movement taking direct action against the root causes of climate change. We’ve already had major successes with Heathrow’s third runway and E.ON’s plans for a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth. *This year we’...

Jess Rostron

JESS ROSTRON (Dip Yr 2) Back from the Front, Soho How can our society deal with the return of traumatised soldiers from quasi-colonial wars in the Middle East? We could, as normal, exile them once again to suburban institutions, or else, as here, offer them a base in Soho to campaign for compensation and receive soothing aromatherapy treatment in rooms off a hidden fragrant courtyard, complete with bee-keeping.

Alex Chan

ALEX CHAN (Dip Yr 2) Smells of the City, Islington Set on the bank of a busy canal basin along the City Road in Islington, a new urban smokery is there to treat fish and other food for the social activity of eating. The importance of smell in London, slowly eradicated since the nineteenth century, is brought back inside a giant pleasure park that is concealed behind what must be the city’s largest inhabited hedge.

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GRANT SHEPHERD (Dip Yr 2) Dementia Centre, NoHo On the currently empty NoHo site off Goodge Street, a new dementia centre is set within a vibrant urban park. Based on the idea of walking as a therapeutic treatment for mental disorders, a snaking route offers access to various medical rooms while also framing glimpses of the existing chapel building and surrounding context, as a means to trigger useful memories.

Jack Gregory

JACK GREGORY (Dip Yr 2) The Paupers’ Graveyard, Southwark Southwark’s Crossbones cemetery was for many of the poorest in London, including so-called outcasts like prostitutes and criminals. Today its supporters have turned it into a place for worship and performance, London’s closest thing to voodoo culture. This project suggests a scientific research centre to exhume the dead coupled with spaces for the cult of remembrance.

Alex Cook

ALEX COOK (Dip Yr 2) City of the Dead, Bloomsbury London cannot cope with the requirements of burying/cremating its dead. This project suggest a new method for the disposing of the dead, returning to the earth and providing soil fertiliser for loved ones to remember them. Dealing with all the needs for the southern half of Camden, the design is subtly and seamlessly integrated into St George’s Gardens, south of Kings Cross.

Ben Kirk

BEN KIRK (Dip Yr 1) The New Religion, Finsbury With the decline of Christianity in London, and the resulting emptying of churches, remaining devotees get to commission praying machines to represent them in churches. But as they too die off, these machines begin instead to dismantle the churches and recycle them into centres for a new religion — cryogenics, a different kind of search for immortality.

Sarah Custance

SARAH CUSTANCE (Dip Yr 1) Artists’ Collective, Broadgate Starting off with a fascinating study of a threatened artists’ collective in Hammersmith, this atmospheric project imagines a new force for urban development on the fringes of the City of London. Here a new facility allows artists to work and display their work, while also providing a new gateway marker to start to diversity the activities of the financial area.

Laurence Pinn

LAURENCE PINN (Dip Yr 1) Displaced Astoria, Tottenham Court Road With the demise of the old Astoria music venue, and the current clearance of the area around Tottenham Court Road tube station, why not instead use the opportunity to create a stunning new urban square? A sinuous field of wavy columns create unpredictable urban views, while also providing discreet notices of what is happening in the relocated facilities of the Astoria.

Elizabeth Blundell

LIBBY BLUNDELL (Dip Yr 2) Lost Love, Paddington Nothing divides London’s citizens quite like the failed relationships between its one-time lovers. Here, on an astonishing infill site hidden behind a false terraced house and above the underground line in Paddington, is a collection point for the capital’s old love letters. It becomes a place to see how love flourishes and dies — a heartbreaking museum like no other.

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NATALIE BENES (Dip Yr 1) The Company of Mudlarks, Southwark A secret society — London’s mudlarks — thrives by scavenging antiques and more prosaic debris along the banks of the Thames. Here they are given a new base on a jetty in Southbank, hidden beneath a vertical storage tower for our semi-desired objects, as well as a new auction house run no doubt by flashy guys who are strangers to the taxman.

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