For what has felt like much of the summer I’ve been involved in the Global Arts Project, a…
Sorry, but no
I got off the bus yesterday to photograph this cone arrangement in a local school’s sports field –…
No trespassing
A while back I made a short film called Event Horizon, about London’s North & South Circular. In…
Form and materiality
I’ve been thinking about the form and materiality of some of the obstructions. I have actually been interested in…
Objects and things
With obstructions in mind, together with recent conversations about our year 2 symposium, I was particularly interested yesterday…
Public Realm Announcement
This is the three minute slide presentation I made on 5 June about Public Realm, the term used…
Presentation on 5 June 2018
Context gif of obstructions to introduce specific idea in forthcoming presentation.
Get your obstructions here
I’m contemplating options for my three minute presentation next week, and felt I had to mention the site…
Draft paper submission 29 May 2018
Draft paper entitled OBSTRUCTIONS: The language of material obstructions and what they tell us about our public spaces….
The presence of objects as obstacles
I’m writing and gathering images for the draft paper now. Its title is somewhere in the vicinity of:…
Beer label news
BTW: my beer labels No Ball Games, Idle Free Zone and Permit Holders Only on the CSM Extra…
Obstructions
Since sketching the quick zine of Obstructions in the workshop the other day, I went out to photograph…
Workshop
Workshop with Emily Smith and Prem Krishnamurphy, in which we worked on each other’s 150 word excerpts (from…
Relative Spaces
I’d been reading through the Lefebvre books about how we share and consume space and it brought to…
Common land
At the weekend I cycled to the Olympic Park and beyond, along the canal towpaths of the Lee…
The public realm
I’ve been researching what the use of prohibitive semiotics tells us about what we regard as public spaces;…
The potential for misinterpretation
Experimental sign interventions: what they’re really saying – or what we’re really thinking.
New Town Utopia
I went to see this in the West End on a sunny Sunday evening over the spring bank…
No Ball Games
My No signs are now appearing on the new CSM X Hammerton beer cans! A limited edition for…
Trust
I’ve been musing on the four potential questions, gaps, holes and bridges that may have emerged from the…