Hi guys,

Project142 is still alive and kicking at our new site in Limehouse, London. Things have been a bit quiet for us lately because we’ve been in negotiations with the owner and getting the building to a usable standard. The time to open our doors again is here and we want to do this with one of our ‘New ReGeneration Exhibitions’. This is a showcase of painting, sculpture and mixed media using recycled materials as the main focus. There have been two of these at 142 Lea Bridge rd and one organised by Beccy Williams in Liverpool.
Our plan is to bring down some of the work on show in Liverpool from the biennal, but we want to include more artists from the London area also.
So please contact me by email or phone if you would like to exhibit something or know someone who uses recycled materials in their art or craft who would be interested.
The show will be running from December till January, these dates will still be confirmed.
There will be an opening night were we will have some drinks, live music and djs playing also.
Please contact me before 26th November if you would like to be involved.

Rethink, reuse, realise.

Dave Hees
mob: 07950500979
www.project142.org

As part of my involvement in organising a book and exhibition proposal (with Nic Clear, Murray Fraser and others), for the PODnet Spatial Interface project (which started as a conference at the University of Westminster, co-organised by the Polytechnic group at Westminster, the AVATAR group at the Bartlett, UCL, and SIAL at RMIT, Melbourne), WAG are revisiting this proposal. This project was published recently, as a manifestation of a few ideas that we have been working on, many of which are still ongoing. It was submitted to David Greene as a contribution to his request for proposals for departments at the LAWUN Invisible University, entitled the ‘Department of Immersive Environments’. Versions of this project have also been published as part of WAG’s Democratic Billboard project, entitled ‘InterSpace’.

The project explores architecture’s role as an organiser of media, technolgy and bodies in space. We described the proposal as :

A servicing frame in a field, and marked out territories on the ground.
An immersive 3D cybernetic forest. A cross between Nam June Paik’s TV gardens, and Piranesi’s Carcieri.
A servicing framework that assembles and coordinates other machines and devices.

For more information visit www.thepolytechnic.org:

Download biennale guide here

See a pool of images from the London Architecture Biennale 2006 at Flickr

Andrew is a senior lecturer at University of Westminster.

WAG are currently nearing completion on site for this domestic extension and remodelling.

The proposal is reinstating the garden and emphasises the connections between outside and inside. A series of different transitions have been created, ranging form a small courtyard between living room and kitchen to a completely open front connecting the garden and the dining area.

Internally the historic layers of the Victorian house have been uncovered and carefully framed within the modern finishes.

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