CINECITY ARCHITECTURAL FILM PROJECT

Three of our highly talented current MA Interior Spatial Design students, Reuben Nanda, Cheng Jin and Sungting Hsieh were selected for an exciting screening at the CineCity Architectural Film Project which took place a few days ago on May 31st in Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia. Reuben is also alumni from BA Interior & Spatial Design. It just goes to show…with the right education and determination you can not only go far…but all the way to the other side of the world!

Reem Chariff is a Associate lecturer for BA Interior and Spatial Design and a founding member of  Febrik, a collaborative platform for participatory art and design research. Febrik installed a wooden watch tower in November alongside a pop up shop at Mosaic Rooms Gallery in London, for their ‘The Watchtower of Happiness and Other Landscapes of Occupation’ exhibiton.

The exhibition turned visitors into unintentional activists during their interactions with the tower’s various vantage points, viewfinders and captured images. The installation suggests systems of surveillance like those seen at checkpoints, to illegal settlements or even at swimming pools. But Febrik stripped the tower of everything except its physical advantage, offering an unusual spatial and social experience. Visitors were encouraged to climb the structure and take photographs of themselves in front of a moveable backdrop.

The interactive Watchtower discussed the inventive, culturally specific and unique practices that demonstrators employed to occupy public spaces in three Arab cities during the recent uprisings. Analysing the role of the camera in narrating these three particular perspectives: defiance (the collective discovery in Tunisia), liberation (the comic drama as portrait in Egypt) and censorship (the unexpected photographer in Syria). The camera’s continued formal and informal use allowed for a multiplicity of representation, away from government and press control.

Mosaic Rooms gallery based in Kensington, West London is the UK arm of the A.M. Qattan Foundation and focuses on  bringing creative voices in the Arab World to London,whilst revealing aspects of Arab society that are often not covered by the media.

Visitor’s photographs can be seen here: http://thewatchtowerofhappiness.tumblr.com/

http://www.mosaicrooms.org/febrik/

http://febrik.org/

Imagined as a new form of seaside entertainment, Flash Fog was inspired by the sea fret or ‘haar’ – a peculiar natural phenomenon found along the north-eastern coastline, where sea salt particles exaggerate condensation to create a density of moisture on the clearest of days. Designed by Colin Priest, Course Leader for Interior and Spatial Design at Chelsea, the interactive, site-specific installation commissioned for the Shimmer Digital Arts Festival held in Whitley Bay over 3/4th November 2012, he created a temporal landscape of participatory fog horn blowing, a shipwrecked coble fishing boat and illuminated fog as movement sensors trigger lights making shadows and phantoms – altogether inviting the public to summon the spirit of the sea.

Shimmer Festival on Facebook

http://www.culturescape.co.uk/mobile/mobile%20pages/clients/ntc/arts%20service/shimmer%20event%20page.html

BA (Hons) Interior & Spatial Design student Jei Ryung Lee has won ONE HUNDRED DAYS, an international competition for emerging artists organized and sponsored by Contaminate NYC. Applicants were asked to submit a project aimed at raising awareness about Sustainability Issues, demonstrating the creative potential of fine art with regards to environmental, social, and economic issues and the potential role of art in a much needed societal transformation in New York.

Hollow – a photographic cinematic sequence – deals with the dichotomy between pureness and darkness in children’s night dreams as a symbol of the difficulty and loneliness of growing up in an increasingly careless society. In her piece the sky at night becomes a potential playground where children are allowed to free their imagination in a way that is forbidden to adults, constrained in their status quo.

To see Jei Ryung Lee’s proposal in full, click here: http://www.onehundreddays.us/?page_id=1075

Images from the Chelsea College of Art and Design BA Show 2012.

Top to bottom: Henry Tyrell – BA Fine Art, Monika Sutkute – BA Interior and Spatial Design, Joel Baker – BA Graphic Design Communication, Lu-Yang – BA Textile Design.

See more images on Flickr.

Febrik: Play, I Follow You

South London Gallery

17 May – 22 July 2012

Febrik, a collaborative platform for participatory art and design research, present an exhibition which unravels the politics of the right to public space and explores relationships between invented, inherited and modified play practices. Their work considers the potential of curious and familiar narratives of daily social play, with a particular focus, for this project, on the spatial dynamics of community groups in two different contexts: Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut and Amman, and Sceaux Gardens in Camberwell. Through photographic documentation, texts and animations, the show also demonstrates the processes of research, design and development undertaken in the creation of The Shop of Possibilities, the SLG’s new social space for play for local residents in a retail outlet on the neighbouring Sceaux Gardens housing estate.

Opening hours:

During exhibitions:
Tuesday – Sunday, 11am-6pm
Except Wednesdays, 11am-9pm
Last Friday of the month, 11am-9pm

Location:

South London Gallery
65-67 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH

T +44 (0) 20 7703 6120
F +44 (0) 20 7252 4730

Directions:

By Underground

The nearest underground stations are:

•Oval (Northern Line, approx 1.6 miles) then take bus 36 or 436
•Vauxhall (Victoria Line, approx 2.6 miles) then take bus 36 or 436 from bus stop C
•Elephant & Castle (Northern Line, approx 2.2 miles) then bus 12 or 171 from bus stop D or R; or 343 from bus stop G or R
Alight at ‘Peckham Road/Southampton Way’

By bus

The following buses stop at the South London Gallery:
Routes 12, 36, 171, 343, 345 and 436
Alight at ‘Peckham Road/Southampton Way’

By train

The nearest mainline train station to the South London Gallery is Peckham Rye (approx 1 mile)

By car

There are no parking facilities at the South London Gallery but there is free parking in the surrounding streets

Along the edge of the main Olympic site in the east end, a zone of transformation can be found between the A12 and the Lea River, taking in Hackney Wick, the Lee Navigation and Old Ford Lock. Over the past year the area has been a place of significant academic enquiry by students in London and further afield. The exposition showcases the coincidental diversity of thought and endeavor by the next generation of architects in time for the London Architecture Festival 2012.

Participants include: Architectural Association, Bartlett School of Architecture, Cambridge School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Greenwich University, Kingston University, Oxford Brookes University, Royal College of Art, South Bank University, Sheffield University, University of East London…

Opening Times:

8am – 6pm, 8pm on Thursday and 12am on Friday
Sugarhouse Studios, 107 High Street, Stratford, E15 2QQ

Directions:

You can reach sugarhouse studios on foot from
Pudding Mill Lane (DLR) or Bromley-by-Bow (District Line)

You can take a longer walk or a bus to or from
Stratford (overground) or Hackney Wick (overground)

During the day you can take buses to or from
Oxford Circus / Ilford (25)
Lewisham / Stratford (108)
Newham General Hosptial / Stoke Newington Common (276)
Shadwell /Stratford (339)
Clapton / Stratford (425)

Through the night you can take buses to or from
Oxford Circus / Ilford (25)
Lewisham / Stratford (108)
Oxford Circus / Hainault (N8)

Ubyu is a completely new self-publishing book company, using bespoke software that has been developed as a result of thousands of conversations with professional photographers, artists and designers.

This newly launched service has been tailored specifically to meet the needs and demands of the creative industry. Created by a team with significant expertise and knowledge in paper and print, ubyu offers extensive design choices and book formats, and sets out to be the only truly bespoke print-on-demand company in the marketplace.

With a host of design choices, there is the ability to create something unique and of professional quality. ubyu offers many production techniques usually reserved for high-end books, such as endpapers, cloth covers, headbands and satin marker ribbons – all available in a choice of colours. Covers can be debossed or foiled – finishing touches that make a ubyu book one of a kind through the offering of an unrivaled level of customisation.

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Self publishing prices vary depending on individual customisation choices but prices start at £11.90 plus p&p for a single book with the minimum of 28 pages. Discounts apply for multiple copy runs. See www.ubyubooks.com/specifics/pricing for the full pricing chart and discount structure. 

Ubyu are currently offering a 10% discount for students at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, which can redeemed at the checkout using the following code ubyu-CCAD-10.

On 1st December, DocHouse presents a special screening of THE ARBOR + Director Clio Barnard In Conversation at Riverside Studios. Clio is a Chelsea Fine Art graduate is delighted to invite current students and staff at Chelsea College of Art and Design to this event.

As a special introductory promotion, DocHouse are offering Chelsea students a special FILM FOR A FIVER discount.

The Arbor has been hailed as a ‘remarkable film: conceptually acute, brilliantly realised, impossibly sad’ (The Daily Telegraph). A multi award-winning film, The Arbor has received five star-reviews from Timeout, The Guardian and The Telegraph to name but a few.

 We hope you can make it along to this unique screening and would be very grateful if you could share details of the event with your students via email or post on your website. For full details and to book tickets see here: http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk/cgi-bin/page.pl?l=1318586269

 DocHouse is the UK Centre for Documentary in the Cinema. If you would like to know more about us and/or the screenings then please take a look at our website www.dochouse.org or contact charlotte@dochouse.org

 Charlotte Balnave ~ DocHouse
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London W6 9RL
020 8237 1220 ~ www.dochouse.org

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