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| AIS | Year 2 – Design and Creative Practice II: Matter, Process

Year 2 – Design and Creative Practice II: Matter, Process

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Tutors: Kirsty Badenoch, Tom Kendall, Caroline Rabourdin.


This year combined material experimentation with public interaction, moving from the laboratory to the workshop and out into the city. In the context of the Anthropocene, we interrogated themes of matter and process at a microscale, questioning the relational ecology of design through form, fabrication and situation. Materials varied from wax and water to bioluminescence and wind; processes varied from ageing and replication to tracking and translation.


Applying experiments at 1:1, the students curated a group public exhibition and a series of physical and virtual site walks along Regent's Canal. Encouraging interdisciplinary methods and critical thinking, projects ranged from transcribing the canal as a musical symphony; misleading audio guides for getting lost; living luminescent bacterial colonies and a holistic soil hospital. Together we explored our place and impact on the world as a group of scientists, artists, performers, architects and more.

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The Exhibition

A selection of images from an exhibition of the students' experiments.

  • Recina Chau, Yue Xie, Y2, 'Exhibition: The Timer'

    A timer, using the heat from light and beeswax, displays how the land polluted by artificial light at night continues to grow over the years.

  • Anna Chippendale, Siobhan Obi, Y2, 'Exhibition: Future Fossils'

    The cracks in the pavement are filled with remnants of a wasteful past. The plastic 'fossils' become future paving slabs with memories of the past, our current present.

  • 'Exhibition: Alternative Pedagogies'

    A system to create a new form of critique and discussion within architectural education which allows for peer review.

  • 'Exhibition: Mid Discussion'

    Watching beeswax melt.

  • Camille Eymieu, Maya Adachi, Yuge Chen, Y2, 'Exhibition: Thames Morphogenesis'

    Casting explores the 'sculpting quality' of water and how the river erodes the shoreline of London.

  • Sandra Engardt, Helen Visscher, Y2, 'Exhibition: An Architecture of Care'

    A view from the middle of the performance of the soil doctor caring for the soil cubes.

  • Evelyn Cavagnari, Camilla Lozinska-Brown, Y2, 'Exhibition: The Labour Behind the Label'

    Installation of the exhibition.

  • Evelyn Cavagnari, Camilla Lozinska-Brown, Y2, 'Exhibition: The Labour Behind the Label'

    Reading the tags: each contains facts about the labour conditions that enable consumerism in fashion.

  • Evelyn Cavagnari, Camilla Lozinska-Brown, Y2, 'Exhibition: The Labour Behind the Label'

    Installation of the exhibition.

  • Caitln Drake, Aysesu Zapsu, Y2, 'Exhibition: Wind'

    Using wind and its unpredictable nature as a drawing tool by exploring its manipulation of other matter, particularly the destructive nature of fire.

Sandra Engardt, Minna Griffiths, Y2, 'Open Circuit Tracking Device'

Cyanotype print from a drawing machine that captures the ephemeral and immeasurable, qualities typically lost in traditional tracking systems.

  • Anna Chippendale, Siobhan Obi, Y2, 'Matter: Future Fossils'

    Material experimentation into the reuse of plastics to create future fossils.

  • Anna Chippendale, Siobhan Obi, Y2, 'Matter: Future Fossils'

    The fossils are brilliantly coloured, capturing a spectrum of gaudy shades. Each one is perfectly preserved, with layers of plastic fibres interlaced with stone and rock.

  • Anna Chippendale, Siobhan Obi, Y2, 'Matter: Future Fossils'

    Each encapsulates a snippet of history: a blue rind sits atop one stone, which some suggest may be a water bottle used by generations past.

  • Evelyn Cavagnari, Camilla Lozinska-Brown, Y2, 'Matter: The Labour Behind the Label'

    Structure and hanging tests with naturally dyed fabrics.

  • Evelyn Cavagnari, Camilla Lozinska-Brown, Y2, 'Matter: The Labour Behind the Label'

    Zoom in on customised care labels discussing the labour conditions in the fashion industry.

  • Camille Eymieu, Maya Adachi, Yuge Chen, Y2, 'Matter: Thames Morphogenesis'

    Photographic recordings of water movement across sand.

  • Camille Eymieu, Maya Adachi, Yuge Chen, Y2, 'Matter: Thames Morphogenesis'

    Experiment in casting the river bed of the Thames to capture the sculpting and eroding qualities of water.

  • Camille Eymieu, Maya Adachi, Yuge Chen, Y2, 'Matter: Thames Morphogenesis'

    Projection of water onto a plaster cast of the sand.

  • Recina Chau, Yue Xie, Y2, 'Matter: The Timer'

    Water filled acrylic dishes capture the beeswax droplets as they mark time.

  • Recina Chau, Yue Xie, Y2, 'Matter: The Timer'

    Beeswax melts as the light bulb's heat warms the wax.

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Anna Chippendale, Erika Notarianni, Y2, 'Making NonSense'

'Making NonSense' uses disruption through communication and text to create new readings and uses of public space. The result is a publication and series of audio guides that provide an alternative way to explore the world.

  • Rosy Todd, Tyler Ebanja, Y2, 'Process: Auditory Strata'

    Through audio recordings, this project amplifies underwater conditions in Regent’s Canal. Show here is a detail of the recording device designed to record the flow.

  • Rosy Todd, Tyler Ebanja, Y2, 'Process: Auditory Strata'

    The device records the different subaquatic strata and suspended particulates using a piezoelectric sensor which converts pressure and friction into sound.

  • Rosy Todd, Tyler Ebanja, Y2, 'Process: Auditory Strata'

    The subaquatic recordings were translated into notations to create a musical score, highlighting the rhythmic qualities of the waterway.

  • Tyler Ebanja, Y2, 'Process: Experiment in Ageing and Casting'

    Using latex to add layers of skin, the build up of wrinkles and imperfections creates a facial strata.

  • Eugene Kulakova, Tyler Ebanja, Y2, 'Matter: War of Worlds'

    Slimemould and bioluminescence are used to explore the impact of human interventions upon the natural world.

  • Eugene Kulakova, Tyler Ebanja, Y2, 'Matter: War of Worlds'

    Flourescent mould sample.

  • Mungeh Ndzi, Morgan Pollard, Y2, 'Matter: Sugar Coated'

    A physical representation of sugar consumption and its impact on society.

  • Mungeh Ndzi, Morgan Pollard, Y2, 'Matter: Sugar Coated'

    Explorations into the various physical properties and states of sugar through experimenting with casting, cracking and caramelisation.

  • Anna Chippendale, Erika Notarianni, Y2, 'Process: Making NonSense'

    Through the disruption and manipulation of text, 'Making NonSense' uses communication errors to create new readings and uses of public space.

  • Anna Chippendale, Erika Notarianni, Y2, 'Process: Making NonSense'

    Example of textual disruption.

Rosy Todd, Tyler Ebanja, Y2, 'Auditory Strata'

Here the subaquatic recordings are translated into notations to create a musical score, highlighting the rhythmic qualities of the waterway.

  • Helen Visscher, Mungeh Ndzi, Y2, 'Process: Critta-Filla'

    Material experimentation into the deconstitution and reconstitution of natural materials and binders to create an ecological polyfiller.

  • Helen Visscher, Sandra Engardt, Y2, 'Matter: An Architecture of Care'

    A toolkit to study and care for soil.

  • Helen Visscher, Sandra Engardt, Y2, 'Matter: An Architecture of Care'

    Performance of the soil doctor caring for and studying soil samples.

  • Helen Visscher, Sandra Engardt, Y2, 'Matter: An Architecture of Care'

    The health chart and composition records of soil sample Clay #1.

  • Sandra Engardt, Minna Griffiths, Y2, 'Process: Open Circuit Tracking Device'

    Annotations on to receipt rolls, marking the solid material qualities and fleeting, passing, ephemeral moments when walking the site.

  • Sandra Engardt, Minna Griffiths, Y2, 'Process: Open Circuit Tracking Device'

    Sketch of the Open Circuit Tracking Device Drawing Machine V2, with a sundial and distance marker.

  • Sandra Engardt, Minna Griffiths, Y2, 'Process: Open Circuit Tracking Device'

    Sketch studies of the site alongside the device's drawn output

  • Siobhan Obi, Morgan Pollard, Y2, 'Process: Lock and Key'

    Replication study, involving making casts using clay impressions and pewter.

  • Siobhan Obi, Morgan Pollard, Y2, 'Process: Lock and Key'

    Mime and performance of the mechanical lock.

  • Siobhan Obi, Morgan Pollard, Y2, 'Process: Lock and Key'

    Through the formation of a mechanical device used to open a canal lock, this project investigates an array of movements and mechanisms used to complete an otherwise simple task.

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Recina Chau, Tsz (Bernard) Ho, Y2, 'Process: Canal Carpet'

Situated between London and Hong Kong – and a response to COVID-19 – this piece is an exploration into negotiating public space through body movement.

Recina Chau, Tsz (Bernard) Ho, Y2, 'Process: Canal Carpet'

Walking in public space is a form of unconscious thinking expressed through body movement. This shows how making small interventions can have a huge impact on people’s interactions.

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