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Adaptable DIY urban spaces and social capital: Investigating the reciprocity of spatial and social affordances
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In recent decades, adaptable do-it-yourself (DIY) urban spaces have proliferated in many cities across the world. Such spaces have become solutions to local problematic, misused or underutilised spaces. Citizens have taken power into their own hands,... Read More about Adaptable DIY urban spaces and social capital: Investigating the reciprocity of spatial and social affordances.

Whereabouts you are
Digital Artefact

‘Whereabouts you are’ was an exhibition of work by ten Glasgow School of Art PhD Researchers, curated by Allyson Keehan (Glasgow School of Art) and guest curator Viviana Checchia (Centre for Contemporary Arts). The exhibition ran from Saturday 15th O... Read More about Whereabouts you are.

Double O
Physical Artefact

Dimensions: 390cm x 390cm x 50cm Materials: Motorcycle donut, vinyl, monitor and silent moving image loop The rider performs a donut as a perfectly shaped ‘O’ in an urban location. By rotating the motorbike around the front wheel in a continu... Read More about Double O.

A mapping project: Doing things separately together
Physical Artefact

Dimensions: 10 maps of 130.48cm x 101.48cm. Materials: Digital prints on dibond. Commissioned by the Arnolfini to work in collaboration with the curators as a central thematic cluster to 'The Promise', we devised a conceptual framework that ai... Read More about A mapping project: Doing things separately together.

Remembering the Avonmouth mustard gas factory
Physical Artefact

Introduction The women of the Great War had undertaken a predominantly domestic role until that point in time. This changed during these testing times, as women took the place of the men in the factories. There was an urgent need to produce large... Read More about Remembering the Avonmouth mustard gas factory.

Studying the role of knowledge: How urban design knowledge has changed in the last quarter of a century
Presentation / Conference Contribution

n 1992 A.V. Moudon published an article titled: “A Catholic Approach to Organizing What Urban Designers Should Know” where she introduced a set of categorisations that helps urban designers to organise their knowledge. After almost quarter a century,... Read More about Studying the role of knowledge: How urban design knowledge has changed in the last quarter of a century.

Meta-parametric design: Developing a computational approach for early stage collaborative practice
Thesis

Computational design is the study of how programmable computers can be integrated into the process of design. It is not simply the use of pre-compiled computer aided design software that aims to replicate the drawing board, but rather the development... Read More about Meta-parametric design: Developing a computational approach for early stage collaborative practice.

Waterproofing basement apartments: Technical insights of a new flood protection solution
Book Chapter

Installing perimeter floor drains is a waterproofing option used inside buildings, which manages water ingress in basements. Newly designed products providing a means to access the inverts of perimeter floor drains and facilitate inspection and maint... Read More about Waterproofing basement apartments: Technical insights of a new flood protection solution.

Brutal Object
Digital Artefact

Dimensions: 760mm x 760mm x 1170 mm Materials: Sound, cement fibre board, black tape, white Letraset, printed ABS, light Sound duration: 16 minutes. 'Brutal Object’ constructs a narrative of multiple protagonists, consisting of buildings, ch... Read More about Brutal Object.

Tamayouz award entry; Baghdad Design Centre
Digital Artefact

The design of the centre is intended to heighten atmosphere and appeal to the senses by creating spectacular internal spaces, and a new external image. The concept is based on an idea of ‘Islamic Eclecticism’; developed from the desire to create a si... Read More about Tamayouz award entry; Baghdad Design Centre.