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For this week’s required blog post, I am uploading my first thinking around a number of quotes from Yuk Hui’s Recursivity and Contingency. The general thought I am exploring is around the idea of the city as a living thing, a superorgansim or a superorgan, something that does act in the interest of itself independent
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In_Organisms is an exploration of fictioning and embodied intelligence. Beginning as an idea to create a working sculptural algae bioreactor concept, the project evolved through the material constraints I put myself under, of recycling PET drinks bottles as the primary material of its production, into a pure speculative exercise. After modelling algorithmically an idea of
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The inspiratorial jumping off point for this project was the idea of creating an algae bioreactor using recycled PET bottles. DIY examples of such systems are relatively simple and have been made with a number of different designs. The purpose of this interest correlates with my interest in ecology and food production. Algae gain mass
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Some months ago I applied for and was accepted into the show: Visions in the Nunnery at Nunnery gallery, the location run by Bow Arts, with whom I have my studio. I spent the week before the install remaking the pyQT interface to be friendly to the gallery staff when turning the piece on and
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I’ve started this writing a thousand times and yet never. Overly concerned with response, I stare at the dying plant on the shelf, I drink the depressed whiskey, I read the prophetic blog post, and yet I lie in my pyjamas and concern for nothing. A ghost sits on my shelf, literally or not, figuratively,
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Before the old academic year ended, the new one started it seemed. I was fortunate enough to have my work chosen to be exhibited as part of the Digital Design Weekend at the V&A, in its event for the London Design Festival, I took an Internship at Jason Bruges Studio, and was also nominated for
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Steward is an investigation into the concept of stewardship, employing a procedurally generated terrain, slowly decaying over time.
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Food poverty in the UK is a political choice. In ostensibly the fifth largest economy in the world, an estimated 4.7 million people, roughly 7% of the population, were considered living in severely food insecure homes in 2016 (“Food Waste And Hunger In The UK” 2022). With the Trussell Trust, the UK’s largest food relief
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