Work in Progress
The Aldgate Project see twenty different projects having been organised for the academic year 2011-2012 with students from both ASD and the Cass participating in a series of projects that are based in and respond to the area of Aldgate and Whitechapel. Projects involve a wide range of disciplines including architecture, fine art, jewellery, interior architecture, textiles design and animation carrying out projects that work with local community groups, charities and stakeholders in the Aldgate area. All of the individual creative projects seek to …
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Aldgate and “the super-local” The Aldgate Project was established to run in the academic year 2011-2012, to act as platform for multidiscipline projects for students of the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design and the Sir John Cass Art, Media and Design. As part of the conjoining of the two Faculties the project encourages students across different disciplines to work together and collaborate on projects that are based in and are in response to the area of Aldgate in East London. For two days in December Studio 3 ran the first live, …
Unit 5 speed dating
There is a kind of play common to nearly every child: it is to get under a piece of furniture or some extemporized shelter of his own and to explain that he is in a ‘house’… It is a symbolism – of a fundamental kind, expressed in terms of play. This kind of play has much to do with the aesthetics of architecture. Heavenly Mansions – An Interpretation of Gothic by John Summerson, 1963 Unit 5 are exploring spaces for music and performance in secondary schools and over the coming year will be collaborating with five schools in Croydon, working …
Real Time 2007–2011
Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design
London Metropolitan University
