Drawing Out III

temporal spatial narratives of politics, sustainability, environment

Date: Friday 14^th June 2024

Time: 11.00-16.30 (for access meet 10.50 Mithras House Entrance)

Location: Room 231D, Mithras House, University of Brighton

Map: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us/maps/brighton-maps/moulsecoomb-campus.aspx

A day of conversation organised by the University of Brighton: Experimental Design Practices REG, Design for Circular Cities and Regions REG and the Bartlett, UCL. Drawing Out II led us to concerns around embodiment, phenomenology and post-phenomenology, and it is with these we will begin the discussions within Drawing Out III.

Presentations of work in progress including:

Charlotte Erckrath, Bergen School of Architecture.

Charlotte’s field of interest is the investigation of design methodologies through critical drawing practice and material exploration.

Matthew Rosier

Matthew is an artist based in London whose work mixes technology with film and sound in the form of immersive public installations.

Rodolfo Acevedo-Rodriguez

Rodolfo trained at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Cambridge, and is a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. His etching practice seeks to establish a relationship between the author and the medium.

Full programme to be announced shortly.

There were a large number of really interesting entries which the judging panel enjoyed looking through. The winner was Yun Wan’s exploration of heart rate and spatial conditions, with a commendation for Kamali Srinivasan.

Drawing Out II

temporal spatial narratives of politics, sustainability, environment

Date: 12^th April 2024

Time: 11.00-16.00 (meet 10.50 Grand Parade Foyer)

Location: Room M2, Grand Parade, University of Brighton

Map: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us/maps/brighton-maps/city-campus.aspx

A day of conversation organised by the University of Brighton: Experimental Design Practices REG, Design for Circular Cities and Regions REG and the Bartlett, UCL.

Work in progress sequential presentations of maximum 20 minutes

11.00 Stefan Lengen

11.20 Hugo Mulder

11.40 Terry Meade

12.20 Round table discussion

13.00 Lunch (Grand Parade Café/individual arrangements)

Work in progress sequential presentations of maximum 20 minutes

14.00 Matt Reed

14.20 Rafaella

14.40 Edward Crump

15.20 round table discussion

16.00 Reflection on the day, close 16.30

Proposed outcomes:

A small digital publication of abstracts with a summary of shared conclusions.

Starting points to inform the next day of conversations.

Drawing Out

spatial narratives of politics, sustainability, environment

Date: 15^th December 2023

Time: 11.00-16.00 (meet 10.50 Grand Parade Foyer)

Location: The Waste House, Grand Parade, University of Brighton

Map: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us/maps/brighton-maps/city-campus.aspx

A day of conversation organised by the University of Brighton: Experimental Design Practices REG and Design for Circular Cities and Regions REG and the Bartlett, UCL.

Work in progress sequential presentations of maximum 15 minutes

11.00 Pete

11.15 Sebastian

11.30 Stefan

12.00 Lynn

12.30 Round table discussion (coffee provided)

13.00 Lunch (Grand Parade Café/individual arrangements)

Work in progress sequential presentations of maximum 15 minutes

14.00 Vanessa

14.15 Issac

14.30 Joy

15.00 Terry

15.30 round table discussion

16.00 Reflection on the day, close 16.30

Proposed outcomes:

A small digital publication of abstracts with a summary of shared conclusions.

One again we received some excellent entries and the jury (Sam, Terry and Rob) had an enjoyable time viewing the work. The winner was Matt Reed’s project work “Meet yourself as you really are”. The work explored how augmented reality might impact our interactions and embodiment.

watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euOp2k__ShU&t=11s

We had some excellent entries and the jury really enjoyed seeing the work. The final winner was Kat Podhajska’s work ‘from parasite to new ways of mapping” completed on the MA Architectural and Urban Design Course.

Friday 20th May 2022, Grand Parade, University of Brighton & online

 Join us for a one-day symposium exploring and sharing practice-based research in art, architecture & design that uses socially engaged or participatory methods. This programme brings together artists, researchers, curators and writers to ask:

How do socially engaged and participatory methods offer different understandings of what research can be?

What sort of outcomes do they produce?

How can this work be documented, and shared in ways that acknowledge the collaborative and dialogic nature of the research?

What sort of challenges come with socially engaged and participatory research for the researcher and the participant?

Join us for a day of inspiration filled with talks, discussions, workshops and events.

Keynote speakers: Sophie Hope, Anthony Schrag, R.M. Sánchez-Camus, Vanessa Marr, Claire Staunton, Torange Khonsari, Gil Mualem-Doron, Sarah Akigbogun and Unit 38

Workshops, activities and visits to take part in:

–Special tour of Socially Engaged Arts Space (SEAS) Brighton exhibition Queering Nature, led by Pacheanne Anderson

– One on one mentoring with artist Lady Kitt

– Drop-in self-led duster making activity with artist Vanessa Marr

– Visit Quiet Down There in residence with their laundrette project

– Leap then Look present a film about their recent arts education practice

Roundtable discussions with practitioners and researchers:

(1) Practice-based research, and the problematics of participation
(2) Institutions, access and inclusion
(3) Co-creating spaces and places of encounter

Register in advance through our website to join us in-person at Grand Parade, University of Brighton or to join on line:

https://brightoncca.art/event/really-sayin-somethin/

Co-hosted and supported by School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering, School of Art & Media, Experimental Design Practices Research and Enterprise Group (ExDP REG) at University of Brighton, and Brighton Centre for Contemporary Art

Programme

9am Registration

9.30am Welcome and introduction

10am Panel Discussion 1
Engaging with participatory art practices as research: Sophie Hope, Anthony Schrag, R.M. Sánchez-Camus and Vanessa Marr

11.15am BREAK

11.45am Panel Discussion 2
Changing architecture, spatial practice and spaces through social engagement: Claire Staunton, Torange Khonsari, Gil Mualem-Doron, Sarah Akigbogun and Unit 38

1pm LUNCH

Lunchtime activities:

– Join for a special tour of Socially Engaged Arts Space (SEAS) Brighton exhibition Queering Nature, led by Pacheanne Anderson. Pre-book your place through the website. 

– Artist Lady Kitt invites you to spend one on one time talking though your socially engaged art project. Four one to one pre-booked sessions are available on a first come first served basis. Please register your interest through the website.

– Participate in a self-led duster workshop by artist Vanessa Marr
Drop-in, Brighton CCA North Gallery

– Visit Quiet Down There, in residence with their laundrette project at Dorset Place
Drop-in, 6 Dorset Place, BN2 1ST

– Leap then Look present a film about their recent arts education practice
Drop-in, Sallis Benney Theatre

 2pm Parallel Roundtable discussions including presentations 

(1) Practice-based research, and the problematics of participation
(2) Institutions, access and inclusion
(3) Co-creating spaces and places of encounter

3.30pm BREAK

4pm  Concluding discussion
Join the speakers from the morning session to reflect on and discuss the day

5pm End

Book to join-in person or to join the panel discussions remotely at: https://brightoncca.art/event/really-sayin-somethin/

To join one of the Roundtable Discussions remotely please contact us: BrightonCCA@Brighton.ac.uk

COVID: The safety of all our visitors and staff is paramount and therefore we will be organising the event with careful attention to suitable COVID safety procedures.

Access: Brighton CCA has step-free access throughout its public spaces. We are wheelchair accessible and can organise a carer ticket free of charge. There are two bookable Blue Badge holder parking spaces at Grand Parade, contact BrightonCCA@Brighton.ac.uk to book. Our toilet facilities are male, female and there is an accessible, gender neutral toilet. We can organise audience members a quiet space during the day as required.

If you have any questions or need assistance with your visit please contact Polly Wright on 01273644716 or email

BrightonCCA@Brighton.ac.uk and we’ll do everything we can to make sure you have a positive experience here.

6pm Tuesday 7th December, Teams

“You have never met someone at a place unless it was also at a time. And you have never met someone at a time unless it was in a place.”

We can be standing on one spot on the Earth, and that physical location is the same as it was yesterday, a hundred years ago, or ten thousand. Yet on that same spot there might have been all kinds of activity. The site’s features might have changed over time, but the location is still one and the same. Could these “ghosts” from our perceived past, help us to further understand our place within space and time and better inform our understanding of the built environments we live in? Could augmented reality as a time-based medium somehow simulate time-travel by allowing us to experience things that stood in a location, in a different time, in a much more immersive way than photographs or recorded media have ever been able to do?

Matt will discuss his ongoing work on developing these proposals into a live project in Brighton with Dr Poorang Piroozfar who has been engaged in the realisation of the work with the MAVRiC Research Group.

Matt Reed is a freelance inter-media artist and designer specialising in architectural and stained glass design, video production and bespoke wallpapers for film and television. He has worked for all of the major TV networks and has had his work shown in London’s Institute of Contemporary Art and The National Portrait Gallery. His work is also included in a book entitled “The 100 Best Stained Glass Sites in London” which charts work in locations around London by some of the most respected artists working in stained glass between 1399 and 2015. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1113187/

Matt is currently studying for an MA in Architectural and Urban Design at the University of Brighton where he is exploring new ways of working with technology such as Augmented Reality and 3d scanning.

Poorang is a Reader in SoATE. Before moving into full-time into academia after his PhD in the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, he practised as an architect and an urban designer for over ten years. His research investigates the drivers, requirements, benefits and responses to deployment of advanced technologies in Architecture, the Built Environment and Construction, and triangulates people, information, technology and environment to find out the most viable and highly acceptable solutions to the problems in the field. His work involves both hard and soft technologies, as well as the socio-cultural and human-machine interactions to achieve this goal.

Poorang is co-founder and director of @BEACON (Advanced Technologies in the Built Environment, Architecture and CONstruction) research group, founder and immediate past director of BERG (Built Environment Research Group), founder and director of Digital Construction Lab, at School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, UK, co-founder and chairman of NoNames Design Research and Studies, founder and director of MAVRiC (Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Reality inter-Connected) research group and a British Council Fund Reviewer.

The ExDP Conversations series aims to offer a forum for the discussion of evolving and ongoing research through which we might offer peer support and review. The series begins in December 2021 with an initial conversation on the Tuesday 9th December at 6pm.

Do get in touch if you would enjoy the opportunity of a conversation around your work.

6pm, Tuesday 9^th November, Teams

For the next in our series of Autumn events we are delighted to organise a viewing of Nat Chard and Nada Subotincic in conversation with Sam Lynch.

Nada Subotincic has been a professor of architecture for 32 years in Turkey, Denmark, Canada, & U.S.A. She most recently left MEF University in Istanbul to co-found a small museum in Montreal called Ceci n’est pas un musée. Since 2006 she has been collaborating with the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, designing exhibition spaces. Her creative research includes: ‘Interpretation of Rooms,’ an ongoing spatial analysis of Sigmund Freud’s consulting room and study; ‘Incarnate Tendencies – An Architecture of Culinary Refuse,’ a social and architectural re- evaluation of food preparation consumption in Jamie Horowitz and Paulette Singley (eds), Eating Architecture (MIT, 2004); ‘Anaesthetic Induction,’ an enquiry into Duchamp’s Le Grand Verre & Étant Donné, in Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture (McGill/Queen’s; Press); and a photographic exploration of technology, architecture and the body in Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Polyphilo or the Dark Forest Revisited – An Erotic Epiphany of Architecture (MIT, 1992).

Nat Chard is Professor of Experimental Architecture at the Bartlett, University College London, following professorships at the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, the University of Manitoba and the University of Brighton. He taught at the Bartlett throughout the nineties. He is an architect registered in the UK and has practiced in London. His work has been published and exhibited internationally. His research practice develops means of discussing uncertain conditions in architecture and the recent work has been acted out through a series of drawing instruments. With Prof. Perry Kulper he won the competition for Pamphlet Architecture 34 (Fathoming the Unfathomable).

The event will be held on Teams at 6pm, Tuesday 9th November