‘We’ve learnt that everything in the city counts, the cars, the dead factories, the rubbish, the vulgar events, the expressive parts that go against the grain. Looking at the lot together you see how each thing brings out the strength in the next… which makes neat design a bit of a day dream.’ – Narrative Architecture Today
(NATO), 1983
miranda.zahedieh@network.rca.ac.uk
Taking Stock examines failed attempts to improve and reform London’s only livestock market, Smithfield in the early nineteenth century. Addressing both the aesthetics and aims of urbanism(s) in the period, and the stymieing force of the butchers’ professional practice, this dissertation attempts to nuance ‘geographies of design’, through both actor network theory and contemporary philosophy. Killing animals is a skilled job, this study hopes to explore why, and in doing so arrest what reformers tended to (dis)miss.
spike.sweeting@network.rca.ac.uk
Mid-century Britain was characterised by debate about the use of space for material means. In their designed plays between the stable and the transitory, the surface and structure, the open and the enclosed, holiday camps offer a route into these processes of physical change. Stretching between city and country, home and holiday, past and present, holiday camps speak to contemporary questions of designed nationality, designed ephemerality, or designed enclosure.
elizabeth.bisley@network.rca.ac.uk
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