Outputs (19)

Beyond lending - A case study (2022)
Book Chapter

Maindee Library+ , Newport, is a volunteer-run, community initiated, piece of social infrastructure. Through a co-produced, socially engaged art programme, Maindee Unlimited appointed architects George Lovesmith (Integrated Workshop) & Sarah Hollingw... Read More about Beyond lending - A case study.

Photovoltaics potential for façade renovations (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As urgent action is needed to tackle the climate crisis by lowering greenhouse gas emissions, façade renovations can improve the performance and reduce the environmental impact of the existing building stock. Integrating photovoltaics into the envelo... Read More about Photovoltaics potential for façade renovations.

The point of truth, beauty and knowledge (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

I was invited by the curator Debora Ando to take oart in this exhibition at Kunstlerhaus , Dortmund , Germany.

"The point of truth, beauty and knowledge" presents six positions whose artistic explorations reflect current investigations on the poet... Read More about The point of truth, beauty and knowledge.

Score: Practices of listening and collision (2022)
Journal Article

A score is a research tool that approaches knowledge as a series of relations. A consciously authored, creative work, a score precipitates and establishes the initial terms of an encounter between stories or actors; performed (translated) into a con... Read More about Score: Practices of listening and collision.

Let’s play together: The role of positive, creative & collective practices towards climate emergency retrofit in a context of technocratic domination (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Throughout 2022 & 2023 Watershed Bristol (cultural cinema, talent development & creative technology centre) will be working with George Lovesmith, architect & socially-engaged artist on plans to adapt their grade II listed (UK heritage status) buildi... Read More about Let’s play together: The role of positive, creative & collective practices towards climate emergency retrofit in a context of technocratic domination.

Artificial landscapes: Nature as urban object (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will focus on the objectification of nature within architectural and urban design in order to define and examine a new ‘iconic’ (Jencks, 2006) turn of architecture, towards the integration of nature as a token of sustainability. The paper... Read More about Artificial landscapes: Nature as urban object.

Encounters (2022)
Book

Encounters voices the choreographers, dancers, architects, and urbanists who contributed to the Movement Forum project. It narrates their experiences in London, Paris, and Lisbon which challenged the way they relate to themselves, to others, to a pla... Read More about Encounters.

Is Passivhaus the future of the UK social housing scheme? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In order to meet the SDGs, new buildings, as well as retrofitted buildings, are developed to an increasingly higher environmental performance standard in both private and social sectors. This has been reflected in a higher standard for thermal perfor... Read More about Is Passivhaus the future of the UK social housing scheme?.

Affordances of the spatial design of school buildings for student interactions and student self-directed learning activities (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The importance of school buildings is rooted in the vitality of education for societal development. Literature perceives learning as a social process, enriched by student interactions and self-directed activities, and the school design should afford... Read More about Affordances of the spatial design of school buildings for student interactions and student self-directed learning activities.

Schools as social complexes. How space affords self-directed learning (2022)
Journal Article

Buildings are social entities. They channel and distribute movement flows and structure who we encounter where and when. Architects can shape how sociable a building might become in use through its spatial layout and its power to bring people togethe... Read More about Schools as social complexes. How space affords self-directed learning.

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.

Potential strategies for enhancing solar architectural skins (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As the climate crisis requires lowering carbon emissions on multiple fronts, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) can reduce buildings’ reliance on energy from fossil fuels by supplying them with electricity generated from a renewable source. In... Read More about Potential strategies for enhancing solar architectural skins.

Studio Archaeology Artist Book (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

"STUDIO/ ARCHAEOLOGY," one accordion and six pamphlets, documents the interior of msdm project space through a cross-section of representational approaches including photogrammetry, narrative/ documentary context and book art. The 3-d models of msdm... Read More about Studio Archaeology Artist Book.

Being in the hyper city and the posthuman body (2022)
Journal Article

Since ancient times, the analogy of the body in relation to buildings was central both in Western and Eastern architectural and urban design. Over time, the prevalence of economies over inhabitants’ experience led to the adoption of architectural and... Read More about Being in the hyper city and the posthuman body.

Amidst urban edges (2022)
Book Chapter

Urban edges advance a reflection on human territoriality and the capacity of remaking territory in relation to public spaces. This social territory making includes a set of appropriation and consequences of presence in public space. Urban edges are i... Read More about Amidst urban edges.

A more ‘inclusive’ approach to module delivery and assessment (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2020, Covid and the introduction of an alternative blended learning approach, provided a welcome opportunity for implementing innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the module Construction Technology and Services 1, at UWE Bristol. A fl... Read More about A more ‘inclusive’ approach to module delivery and assessment.

Durability of whole culm bamboo: Facts, misconceptions and the new ISO 22156 framework (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Durability of bamboo is one of the most important aspects to consider when designing and building with this nature-based material. Durable structures with bamboo are resilient, cost-effective and have a lower whole life-cycle environmental impact. Th... Read More about Durability of whole culm bamboo: Facts, misconceptions and the new ISO 22156 framework.

Westonbirt community shelter (2022)
Physical Artefact

A timber shelter designed as a research project with Xylotek to explore using Oak grown on site and making as empowerment with harder to reach and marginalised community groups

Facilitating ambient intelligence of acoustic atmospheres (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. ” – John Cage, ‘Silence’
The project intends to understand how sounds alter people’... Read More about Facilitating ambient intelligence of acoustic atmospheres.