Experiments: Type on Buildings 02
Alvar Aalto, Villa Mairea Elevation
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Research: British
Cartlidge Levene: http://www.cartlidgelevene.co.uk/
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Vince Frost: http://www.frostdesign.co.uk/
SEA: http://www.seadesign.co.uk
Research: Swiss
Wolfgang Weingart: http://www.weingartarchive.com/
Mueller+Hess: http://www.muellerhess.ch/
Happy Pets: http://www.happypets.ch/
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Research: Multi/Trans/Cross-disciplinarity
Multidisciplinarity
Multidisciplinarity examines multiple subjects from different disciplines but only uses the methods of one discipline in its examination. This approach is related to the think tank model, where the objective is likely to be the solution of an immediate problem, rather than exploration of disciplinary perspectives.
Transdisciplinarity
A transdisciplinary approach dissolves boundaries between disciplines. Transdisciplinarity becomes necessary when the concept or method cannot be understood from within a single discipline and requires the input of many disciplines to be understood. An example is the field research method called ethnography, which was originally developed in anthropology but is now more fully understood with insights from psychology, philosophy, sociology, and other disciplines.
Crossdisciplinarity
This describes a method that crosses disciplinary boundaries but does so from a foreign angle and with no cooperation. Basically, crossdisciplinary approaches attempt to explain a subject in the terms of a foreign method. Some good examples of such interaction would be describing the physics of music or the politics of literature.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Influences: Carlos Garaicoa / Lisa Openheim
Carlos Garaicoa
Nowhere is the constant march of history more obviously stamped on our surroundings than in cities, with the seemingly endless processes of demolition, reconstruction and rebuilding going on all around us. The cityscape of Liverpool, in particular, is currently changing so rapidly that even lifelong residents are bewildered. This makes it a perfect site for Carlos Garaicoa, whose art has long focused on the complex structures and ongoing evolutions of cities – the ways in which, although cities are constantly changing, they always retain, half-hidden, the traces of what went before. For International 06, Garaicoa makes intriguing use of his own photographs, ‘invading’ their surfaces to create poignant images of Liverpool buildings haunted by their own past.
Lisa Openheim 
We tend to think of archives as impersonal collections of documents, but behind any archive there is a person (or many people), a purpose and an agenda. Lisa Oppenheim is fascinated by the human stories hidden within archives – the notes handwritten in the margins of historical documents, the scribbled descriptions on the backs of old photographs. She’s also fascinated by the many ways in which archives allow us to slip between past and present. For International 06, Oppenheim will make use of the archive of Liverpool photographer Edward Chambré Hardman, but with a twist, setting words alongside images and past alongside present to create a uniquely fluid portrait of the changed – and changing – city.
04 October 2006
The H-Block of Leeds Metropolitan University is an iconic figure for an observer. Behind the hardness and stiffness of its walls, there is life. Activities and creative processes, ideas, workshops and conversations. Behind the harsh exterior a living organism is evolving and developing in order to discover and experiment with contemporary arts and graphic design. Come inside and play.
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