Architectural Association Summer School Quickspace Slowtime
Program: London Through Our Senses Touch | Perception
Categories: Urban, Research, Materials, Architecture
Tutors: Pepa Mendoza Massimo Santanicchi
Team: Joshua Freese, Garreth, Maria
Year: 2005
Location: London
The investigation began by collecting artifacts and adjectives andputting them ina letter describingtheenvironments of the post box the letter was tone sent from.
The materials and adjectives in the letters were catalogued and gridded to establish an additive filtrate system. Theses defined materials using conditional adjectives that ranged from contextual or social to traits of temporality, solidity and of triggered emotional responses: can concrete provoke eroticism?
This led to the creation of a series of characters, moments of their perversion or deviation were mapped through derive of the city, and a general pattern of material presence can breed from the unfurled map. Material objects (banana, coin, etc.) and alternate material objects (plastic banana, metal banana, etc.) were produced and placed in the context of real-time urban space in order to categorize prejudice and projection of peoples perception of, and reaction to, that material object.
