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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Rachel Armstrong, Simone Ferracina, Dr Rolf Hughes
The present book gathers materials, methods and reflections arising from a week-long workshop which was held at the Tallinn Technical University (TTÜ) 27-31 March 2017. The event was a collaboration between Kristi Grišakov, Head of the Landscape Architecture programme for the Interdisciplinary Landscape Architecture Master Studio, and the Experimental Architecture Group (EAG) from the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University, led by Rachel Armstrong, Professor of Experimental Architecture, with Simone Ferracina, Lead in Living Architecture, and Rolf Hughes, Director of Artistic Research Practices in Experimental Architecture. The course featured guest lectures by Tiina Peil from the School of Culture and Learning, Södertörn University and Hannes Tönisson, Institute of Ecology, Tallinn University, which aimed to widen the range of conceptual and practical tools through which participants could explore the role of design in shaping complex, hybrid human and non-human relationships in an era of ecocide. With workshop techniques drawn from Experimental Architecture, a visionary practice that generates design methods, experimentation and the production of prototypes, students were invited to propose fundamental units of design and construction for the 21st century – “living bricks”. The term “living” in this context incorporates both the processes that underpin life and the principles whereby spaces invite ecological entanglement and inhabitation.
Author(s): Armstrong RA, Ferracina S, Hughes R
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Published
Year: 2017
Number of Pages: 76
Print publication date: 01/06/2017
Acceptance date: 19/06/2017
Publisher: EU, Newcastle University, TTU, East Kultuurkapital
Place Published: Tallinn, Estonia
URL: http://www.digar.ee/arhiiv/et/raamatud/78573
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9789949584109
