Dynamics & de-realisation

The collection of design projects included provide an overview of philosophical theories that focus on what appears to be real, presenting a range of methodologies and a set of tools for addressing this discourse. The contents have been divided in 5 sections each chapter developing a design criteria process which references one of the following areas in philosophy- Hyperreality and simulacrum within Postmodern philosophy, referencing Jean Baudrillard, semiology and the authority of form, complexity and noumenon/non-euclidean geometry, the exhausted confines of Structuralist theory according to Roland Barthes, and lastly authenticity, with the aim to describe how we perceive reality and the urban fabric. Incorporating the ontological potential of space into a design process and part of a design criteria, will help develop an understanding of the conditions under which forms have been generated.

Synthetic Sun.- Dimensions of Conceptual Space essay. Fractal Tower project.- Distortions of Schema essay.- Cartesian Duality project.- Arts Pavillon Gallery, London.- Warped Space. Floating Gallery, London.- The Beach Playground Project, Norway.- Arctic Mobile Research Centre proposal.- Museum of China proposal, Erdos, Mongolia.