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Programme 09-10:
Unit 14 is experimental. Our aim is to support individual original work of exceptionally high quality within the framework of time-based architecture, architecture that is designed and understood in 4 dimensions. The unit explores how architecture responds to the natural and man made physical world and how this response is perceived by human users and observers,
each with a wealth of prior experience and knowledge. This year we will specifically examine how architecture coexists with the world of invention.
Resources: Students are encouraged to use the resources and contacts of the Bartlett
Interactive Architecture Workshop both within and beyond the UCL context. Many Unit 14 graduates now run their own practices, undertake research, teach in the unit and collectively represent an unrivalled knowledge base. They work in a world where historical distinctions between disciplines are breaking down and are constructing new creative alliances and new working practices. As a result Unit 14 students are resourceful, self confident and self-directed.
Programme Year 4: The Experimental Toy Factory
We return to the theme of ‘doing it for real ‘ with The Experimental Toy Factory. Toys are part of a wider range of social objects that are used by children and adults to construct and maintain their appreciation and understanding of the worlds that they inhabit. They can often contain extreme examples of cutting edge technology mass produced at very low cost. What useful purpose is served by shipping these intimate objects from one side of the world to the other when they can be devised and tested closer to home? Students are asked to design an experimental factory where toys are invented, prototyped, tested and (possibly) made. Students will then be asked to develop a key idea so that it becomes a personal experimental toy in the latter part of the year. This project is designed to help each student establish an area of interest to be taken further in year 5.
Programme Year 5: Individual Agendas
We are committed to the idea that students in year 5 should have complete freedom to establish their own area of interest and their own approach to techniques of representation and testing. Some of the most successful Unit 14 projects have existed in the form of drawn and animated representation However many important ideas about response and perception can only be examined by constructing 1:1 fragments or complete installations. Where appropriate students will be encouraged to do this.
Field trip: We are going to Copenhagen to see the city and present work at the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Art. Critics at the Academy will include Mette Thomsen and Phil Ayres from the CITA research group.
Staff: Professor Stephen Gage & Richard Roberts
London critics: Jason Bruge (jasonbruges.com), Usman Haque (haque.co.uk) Dominic Harris (cinimodstudio.com) Ruairi Glynn (intertactivearchitecture.org) Paul Bavister
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