Urban Rewilding -
Founder & Researcher
2018
in collaboration with
Zachary MacPherson & Joshua MacPherson
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Urban Rewilding explores the role of listed buildings in South East London while envisioning processes of urban regeneration.
​More in depth, the project addresses potential uses for the Gasholder No. 13, a listed former gasworks site on Old Kent Road. Drawing from Southwark Council Area Action Plan to turn the structure into a park, the project resulted in a landscape-design proposal aimed at turning the Gasholder into a vertical garden, by acting on locals’ needs and creativity. This in order to explore and thrive on people’s perceptions about urban regeneration and listed buildings, by creating a natural-beneficial process that allows change to happen whilst giving community control.
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Urban Rewilding -
Installation
2018
for
BA (Hons) Design Management and Cultures.
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The installation has been designed to allow user-interaction and visual understanding not only of the project itself but of the
concerns it tried to overcome. The piece frames the Gasholder on Old Kent Road Action Area 13, as outlined in Southwark Council's Action Plan for the area. The scaled laser-cut scheme features the proposed local vegetation, designed to run around the exterior of the Gasholder. The display, at last, offers the visitor a fully-sensorial experience which aims at casting people away from reality and lead them to the exploration of possible design alternatives regarding the Gasholder and similar spaces affected by regeneration processes.
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London College of Communication.
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California
Conservation Camps -
Design Research Proposal
2018
about
Within the prison environment, the exercise of power has among its central aims the monitoring and discipline of the inmates to prevent them from reoffending. The design of these spaces inherently symbolises the physical manifestation of the institution’s objectives and approaches for dealing with convicted men and women. Therefore, one must first look at the rehabilitative properties of the prison structure itself. Focusing on the California Conservation Camps, which offer an alternate approach to labour and spatial design, has the potential to demonstrate whether an ethical prison structure can foster labour as a form of rehabilitation.
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The designed artefact has been conceived as an ‘imprisoned element’ within a container, which symbolises the Conservation Camps Program as a whole. A map of California is engraved on top of the container, made of laser-cut wooden sheets, as well as the thesis title. The element of wood both represents the camps interior design and the outdoor forestry work. In the Conservation Camps, wood is often implemented for furniture and doors (Johnston, 2000). Moreover, in structures such as the Mountain Home Conservation Camp, inmates are employed for the manufacturing of wood furnishings, including cabinets, workstations, picnic tables, arbours as well as lawn furniture. On the other hand, wood also symbolises the natural environment inmates are exposed to which, at the same time, try to safeguard during firefighting and forestry activities. An industrial-rigid typeface has been chosen for the titles, in order to illustrate the role labour plays in such institutions, which automatically turns prisoners into a continuous force of production. Finally, the designed artefact presents elements which, at first glance, are aimed to restrict the reader’s interaction with the thesis. This feature has been obtained by securing a padlock – provided with its respective key – to the container.
Zine Shipping Containment
2017
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The zine documents the cycle of the shipping container as a tool for versatility and change, which echoes themes such as reinvention and survival skills. The shipping container can be perceived as a tool for human survival, since it has been ideated as a medium for the trade of goods around the globe, later used for illicit activities like the transportation of drugs and human trafficking. However, these mobilising activities, throughout the years, have found a destination that led to the stationarity of the container, now used to provide accommodation for migrants and people in general.
