HOW BIG CAN YOU THINK?

Boidus would like to introduce our new contributor -
Malgorzata (Gosha) Jacewicz.  CEO at HOLD Foundation C.I.C.

Chaos

The Global and United Kingdom economy is driven by  means of production where goods are privately owned and the system driving force is expansion, growth and profit; this model has guaranteed over the decades progressive growth of capital and expansion of markets but also provided major employment areas for particular skill sets. This economic model has described the relationship between production and form of property ownership to become a major economical regulator through the construction industry. Currently the market has dried up and reached the level where disproportion of artificially generated demand and available finance through cash or aid of mortgage has become financially, environmentally, and socially impracticable due to an overestimated system of expansion and overproduction that could not be fulfilled. This economic model generated overspecialised markets without an ability to adapt to current requirements or to absorb the impacts of new demands aligned with the need for thoughtful use of resources in the global context of availability, and carbon emissions. The political and productive forces by enforcement of mass production and drive for seamless expansion generated enforced destruction of the market itself. That is so by reinforcing the failing system on a global scale and diminishing the means whereby crises could be prevented. The political and productive forces generated a combination of circumstances where the product become unavailable to those who could afford it and on the contrary become too powerful and brought disorder into the whole society jeopardising its own existence.

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UCL CITIES METHODOLOGIES 2011

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FREE RANGE 2011. GRADUATE STUDENT SHOW RETURNS

Opening times:

2 June – 25 July 2011

Private Views: Thursdays 6pm-10pm

Exhibition Days: Fridays to Sundays 10am-7pm and Mondays 10am-4pm

Closed: Tuesdays to Thursdays

Free Admission

Venue: Old Truman Brewery. 91-95 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL

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The UK’s largest art and design graduate talent exhibition Free Range returns to East London’s Old Truman Brewery in June for an eight-week free showcase of new British art and design talent. Now in its eleventh year, Free Range has established itself as the authoritative identifier and supporter of tomorrow’s best young creative talent. 2011 is set to be the exhibition’s biggest year yet, with the return of the highly successful ‘Fashion and Design’ category which launched last year and the introduction of a further new ‘Moving Image’ exhibition, which will join photography, art, graphic design and interior design on the schedule for the largest showcase of visually creative work to date.

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In the past Boidus has featured Free Range and brought to attention a number of brilliant pieces by very talented students.

Above: Visual by Amanda Wheatley of Leeds Met from the Interior Design showcase at Free Range 2009. Her proposal that was displyed at Free Range was entitled For the Lost  and Found: Cumbrian Archaeological Collection. More on interiors here

Above: Photograph by Mikko Taukkenen from Free Range 2009, who focusessed on an issue rather than an act of photography to create powerful portfolio images. He brought to our attention the plight of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. He managed to capture the vulnerability of the people and the hell of where they lived. More on Photography here

Check out articles from the last time Boidus went to Free Range.
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MA&DE & DESIGN EXCHANGE PRESENT PUB TALK

FABRICATE 2011

www.fabricate2011.org

International Peer Reviewed Conference, Publication and Exhibition

Venue: Christopher Ingold Auditorium, UCL Chemistry Department, 20 Gordon Street, WC1 6BT (NB: Venue has been changed from the Building Centre)

Hosted by the Bartlett School of Architecture, London

15-16 April 2011

Image by Dean Foskett © Click here for article

The Bartlett School of Architecture announces FABRICATE. A London Conference to assess the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century.

Discussion on key themes will include:

Digital craft

Representation and realisation

Material performance and manipulation

Off-site and on-site construction

Interdisciplinary education

Economic and sustainable contexts

Automated fabrication

Associated theory

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The Mysteries of The Bartlett (UCL) Unravelled

A very interesting and exclusive Boidus interview with  Bartlett Architecture student Chris Hildrey, conducted by Mark Ellery.

Forgotten Spaces - Project by Chris Hildrey

ME – We at Boidus want to understand the working ethic at The Bartlett, how do students find the time to study if they have to work for a living as well?

CH – There are a few people who work professionally while studying, however from what I saw the numbers were in the vast minority. I would imagine that anybody who does do this will have a relaxed part-time arrangement with their employer because otherwise there really wouldn’t be enough time to study.

ME – How does everyone afford to study?

CH – I couldn’t tell you the ins-and-outs of others’ financial status but I was lucky to have my parents pay for my rent while studying in London. Obviously this was a huge advantage during term time. I also worked and saved up during summer breaks. For others, there are bursaries for students facing hardship and some were sponsored by practices (which required a commitment to work for them for maybe a couple of years afterwards). Generally speaking, however, architecture does seem to attract a disproportionate number of students from rather affluent households. Financial status can have a direct result with the quality of the work (more money = more/bigger 3d prints, better materials, larger prints etc), though in the Bartlett it was good to see that most people’s ambition would stretch even the most forgiving budget, so there was a lot of people being very clever and/or disciplined with their approach to production (skip diving, second hand components, measuring twice/cutting once etc).

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Theory and Education

Welcome to the new “Theory” Category.

This category will explore all things education, such as theoretical debate, philosophy, experimental research and student projects.
It also look into exploring ideas using 1:1 models and built examples of theoretical architecture (such as Park Hill Estate, The LCC, and Archigram).