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Sir Peter Cook’s mural-like Innovation Studio opens on UK university campus

2021-11-04T14:19:00-04:00

Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) in the United Kingdom is celebrating the opening of a new creative facility designed by Sir Peter Cook. The Innovation Studio is the second building on AUB’s campus designed by Cook, after his undulating Drawing Studio was opened in 2016 by Zaha Hadid. Cook himself graduated from AUB in the 1950s.

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The new facility will host a range of digital and physical manufacturing technologies, including Large Format Additive Printing, CNC milling, and waterjet cutting, alongside VR/AR technologies such as 3D body scanning and a green screen studio. The university sees the Innovation Studio as a space where students, graduates, university experts, and businesses can collaborate on real-world issues through design.

Image: Richard Bryant

“The space is a rich vessel for creativity and innovation,” said Cook upon the studio’s opening. “Those creating within these walls will almost certainly working towards solutions to some of mankind’s great...

"Preserve" is like a guide book to gentrification, demolishment and urban living gold rush

2020-02-13T18:45:00-05:00

Just look at the American Hotel (sold in 2001 and then again in 2013). It is still "preserved," but entirely gentrified. What happens when the suitcase full of money and sleek renderings by a famous architect show up, when demolition is someone's foregone conclusion? This is Los Angeles after all.

Starting with a scene of a fictional computer game called Demolition, Anthony Carfello's investigative article for "Georgia" goes behind the scenes of much touted and celebrated developments taking a place in downtown LA's artsy parts. It is like a guide book to gentrification, demolishment and urban living gold rush.

Georgia looks to both artistic and organizing efforts for suggestions of a way forward, away from the complicities of cultural production and toward greater solidarity with communities in struggle.
Through a series of invitations—in the form of texts, conversations, and republished material—Georgia emphasizes shifting perspectives and historical case studies to localize the pressing conflicts of today and to explore the contested sociopolitical functions of art and its larger reception.

Explore diverse processes of community development at the Arts University Bournemouth

2017-03-01T04:00:00-05:00

This post is brought to you by Arts University Bournemouth.

The MArch at AUB explores the possibilities of new architectural practices that make, innovate and collaborate, exploring diverse processes of community development and transformation.

Book onto our Postgraduate Open Day on 15th March 2017 to find out more.

The “construction” of the “sites” of our interventions in the public sphere includes involvement with other institutions, governmental agencies and other actors at a local, regional, national, and global level.

Where are the options? What is at stake? Are there really options? How should we choose? At the centre of the investigation is the body: architectural, institutional, corporeal; and the landscape: ecological, contextual, natural and man-made.

The MArch at AUB program is for you if you are looking for something different and fresh in your route to becoming an architect in a changing world.

The MArch at AUB aims to produce: performative, projective enablers and archite...