Monday 24 September 2012

More pictures from the panel discussion

Tina-Henriette Kristiansen and Simon Herron
Photographer: Mats Håkansson


Tina-Henriette Kristiansen, Simon Herron, Peter Cook, Neil Spiller, David Garcia, Ena Lloret, Hermann Klöckner, Abelardo Gonzalez, Jorge Ayala, Léopold Lambert and Christer Malmström
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Ena Lloret, Hermann Klöckner and Abelardo Gonzalez
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Jorge Ayala and Léopold Lambert
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Peter Cook and Neil Spiller
Photographer: Mats Håkansson
Simon Herron
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Tuesday 18 September 2012

Thank you for a great symposium

Monika Jonson, Tina-Henriette Kristiansen, Simon Herron, Peter Cook, Neil Spiller, David Garcia, Ena Lloret, Hermann Klöckner, Abelardo Gonzalez, Jorge Ayala, Léopold Lambert and Christer Malmström
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Peter Cook and Neil Spiller
Photographer: Mats Håkansson

Monday 10 September 2012

Master Degree Project Exhibition

On Friday September 14, after the lectures, there will be a Vernissage for the Master Degree Project Exhibition in the A-building foyer.

Caroline Lundin and Mats Håkansson will be exhibiting their projects produced at the Bartlett (London) and at the Royal Academy (Copenhagen) 

Saturday 8 September 2012

Posters ready

Finally the posters are printed.
Thank you for great help as always, Per-Henrik at Tryckeriet E-Huset

Friday 7 September 2012

Sponsor | White

We are proud to present White as a financial sponsor for LAS*12.
Their contribution makes it possible to continue our work.

Thank you

White is one of Swedens leading architectural studios, with 8 offices in Sweden and 3 in Denmark.
Their Malmö office has a lot of our former students as employees, and we are currently looking at different forms of future collaboration between White and Lund School of Architecture. This prosperous vision reflects their foundation theories of "a multidisciplinary culture of collaborating dissidents",
White is pioneering in architectural sustainability and they have these thoughts present in all phases of their projects.


Sponsor | FOJAB Arkitekter

We are proud to present FOJAB Arkitekter as a financial sponsor for LAS*12. They have been supporting this event for many years and their contribution makes it possible to continue our work.

Thank you
Fojab Arkitekter are currently working on MAX IV, that will become the next landmark in Lund.
They won the MAX IV-competition together with Snöhetta, to design the worlds most powerfull syncrotron radiation facility, which is now being constructed.


 

Sponsor | ESS


We are proud to present ESS as a financial sponsor for LAS*12. They have been supporting this event before and their contribution makes it possible to continue our work.

Thank you
The European Spallation Source (ESS) aims to be the brightest source of neutrons in the world for scientific research. By the end of this decade it will be generating long pulses of neutrons. These will be used in parallel experiments that will foster major advances from aging and health, materials technology for sustainable and renewable energy, to experiments in quantum physics, biomaterials and nano-science.
The ESS will be located in Lund, Sweden, co-hosted by both Sweden and Denmark and will be funded and operated by a partnership of 17 European countries. The ESS and our partners are currently engaged in a technical design review that will act as the blue-print for the construction of ESS to start in 2013 and to become operational in 2019.
 

Thursday 6 September 2012

Poster sent to print

Finally the poster is finished, sent to print and distributed to websites around the world

Simon Herron

 Simon Herron is one of our speakers at LAS*12



In February 1967 Architectural Design magazine published a special issue exploring the future “2000+”, the cover art a high contrast image originally produced for Cutler and Hammer an aerospace tech company from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The image a headshot of Rocket Man, in uniform white, opaque reflective black visor, set against a brilliant red background.

Guest edited by John McHale, the issue opens with an edited address by Buckminster Fuller, confronting the difficulties predicting 35 years into the future with any degree of confidence or accuracy. Sandwiched between adverts for everyday building materials, RAWPLUGS, aluminium profiles, sectional doors, and the latest from Lea Valley Kitchens, were articles examining the latest in outer and inner space hardware with this seasons must have in Life Support System from General Dynamic to the ultimate in integrated augmented technologies in Man+.

Fast forward to 2012. Don’t you get that curious and unnerving feeling that we are all somehow unwittingly working for Google or Facebook? Increasingly we inhabit a world living vicariously through the encrypted pseudo personalities of our on screen in-world micro personas . . . unconsciously drifting through hypertext paradigms. A world in which we practice living our life, detached, seamlessly switching through various mediated context specific selves Instant Messaging, Twittering, curiously making ourselves up as we go along.

Mashing of context, deliciously devoid of any true content, enacting genres, adopting alternate personalities, role-playing, outsourcing our emotions, whilst exhibiting those of others. Wondering, whose personality is this anyhow? A fragmented psychosis, unconsciously and collectively dreamt up, left over from some discarded marketing campaign? With such shared interrelated experiences, a world in which everyone is so profoundly involved, the self becomes somewhat shapeless and hard to pin down.
Boundaries have traditionally defined the physical geographical limits of the tribe. The machines and technologies of mass observation and communication blur and dissolve our Cartesian certainty. This detached observer systematically distanced outside of the frame of experience.

We will consider the utopian dreams of the 20th Century, from the counter culture of the 50’s and 60’s through the nihilistic disillusionment of Punk, the ambivalence of Generation X to the Anti–Globalization alliance and environmental activism of 10:10?

 
Simon Herron

Academic Leader in Architecture School of Architecture Design and Construction University of Greenwich
 

 

Referance:
Velvet Air projects: Home to a selection of images from our archive of student work.