Category Archives: Students 2011-12
Learning…
Blow-up dolls
The proposal is dynamic, using most, and best, of the opportunities that inflatables provide. As the physical crowd in the Guildhall square grows (or shrinks), the buildings lift up, extending the square, and (in some way which is not clear … Continue reading
Demographics + Program
Dinner party v0.1
The new dinner set is to explore and test the architectural consequence of the meaning for an demonumentalized Bank of England. Dishes connect to each other created a meshed network of plates and glasses that is to be interpreted as … Continue reading
sketch
Permanent parade, updated
The proposal is temporary because that is the nature of any political situation: it can change and be adapted to whatever needs to be shown/displayed at the moment. Thus I think I should develop several potential political situations, and according … Continue reading
Project as a permanent parade (of some sort)
As a tool of propaganda, the main duty of the building is to display. Display protesters that crowd it; display the politicians and employees of the Corporation; display (and be able to facilitate) their direct or indirect relationship, possible contacts, … Continue reading
Some sketches
The new layer of the Guildhall is split in two. At parade times, the building serves as both a backdrop for the parade marching through it, and as a grandstand. At meeting times, it serves as the grand space for … Continue reading
Towards a dinner party as precisely choreographed as a surgeon’s scalpel
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Cloud infrastructure as architecture/open source social network marketing
Dystopia visions are perhaps most familiar from the cinema, in such films as Blade Runner and Tron. “The rise of the printed press is inseparable from the rise of technology and capitalism, and its influence has forged a dependence on … Continue reading
Workshop, day 1: pre-tutorial post
If the protesters are really eager to “change the capitalist system”, as they have proclaimed, this would require direct interaction with the City of London Corporation. Most of the Corporation’s meetings are public, and take places in two types of … Continue reading
Dinner party
Outline for exchange: propaganda
This project deals with propaganda which is heavily present in the City of London. From the City’s side, there is the annual Lord Mayor’s Show which positions the City of London Corporation as a purely historical and cultural entity instead … Continue reading
Snapshot for Workshop_YJ
The project investigates strategies in articulating a sense of presence and awareness in a networked space, created through the intersection of shared physical and virtual space to open up an augmented congressional space in both London’s Square Mile and the … Continue reading
Massive Flash Crash of 2010 narrated live
The Machine!
The Sublime Propaganda Machine from Harijs Alsins on Vimeo. The Sublime Propaganda Machine is an installation, made as a part of a project that explores the possibilities of propaganda as a spatial tool for defining a territory, an architecture. The … Continue reading
Act 3 Scene 3 – Initiating the State of Metamorphosis
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