Matt Hynam's Outputs (10)

Cyborg situations: Media extensions for the architect's body (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Architectural thinking and making have been historically attached to and conditioned by representational practices and their corresponding media, most notably of all, drawing. From the Salamis Stone (4th century BC) to medieval tracing floors and con... Read More about Cyborg situations: Media extensions for the architect's body.

The value of creativity: Architectural divergence & regulatory convergence (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

At the beginning of the 2023-24 academic year, the architectural design community in the United Kingdom, is cautiously anticipating the Architect’s Registration Board, to provide the new guidelines and regulations for the delivery of architectural ed... Read More about The value of creativity: Architectural divergence & regulatory convergence.

Wide Load [Bred Last] A House Moved (2023)
Book

https://www.msdm.org.uk/wide-load
This book is a photographic archive and written essays of a house move in Northern Sweden. It considers the historic, cultural, technical and material significance of house moving in the region, through a single his... Read More about Wide Load [Bred Last] A House Moved.

Wide Load: A House Moved (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

This artist book is a photographic archive and text of a house move in Northern Sweden. It considers the historic, cultural, technical and material significance of wholesale house moving (husflyttningar) in the region, through a single, historic hous... Read More about Wide Load: A House Moved.

Land, air and water: Reclaiming the Anthropocene through Bristol’s infrastructural megastructures (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper presents work developed across a series of architectural design studios at the Department of Architecture and the Built in Environment at UWE Bristol, and the specific techniques of representation they have tested and refined towards combin... Read More about Land, air and water: Reclaiming the Anthropocene through Bristol’s infrastructural megastructures.

Studio archaeology (2021)
Physical Artefact

Spatial imagination, free-hand and digital drawing, model making and diagramming, modelling techniques, theoretical position, are a particular focus, this year, to focus upon the human occupation of space, the loss of social space correlating with th... Read More about Studio archaeology.

Design leaps: Divergent thinking techniques across media for architectural design (2021)
Thesis

This thesis examines the moments of divergence that occur across media in the early stages of the architectural design process. The term ‘divergent thinking’, coined by Joy Paul Guilford (1967) as a key component of creativity, describes the flexibil... Read More about Design leaps: Divergent thinking techniques across media for architectural design.

Birnbeck international film institute architecture UWE (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This film reflects on a year-long collaboration between Master of Architecture students at UWE Bristol and Birnbeck Trust. Over the course of the year students were tasked with developing proposals for an International Film Institute to be constructe... Read More about Birnbeck international film institute architecture UWE.

Design leap! Developing a divergent tool through film for use within the architectural design process (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper and accompanying short films (www.designleap.org/478/) have been produced to inform the development of a wider design research based PhD. The aim of the PhD is to develop a divergent tool to help designers be more creative within the early... Read More about Design leap! Developing a divergent tool through film for use within the architectural design process.

Filmic Space: Parallels between transitions in film and architecture (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines the potential of bringing together filmic language and architectural language to describe the experience of moving through the complex fabric of the modern city. In particular the paper focuses on how the city might be read throug... Read More about Filmic Space: Parallels between transitions in film and architecture.