The project is an insightful exploration of the self. The programme: a series of workshops that populate the Plum Pudding Island landscape. The workshops are envisaged as a place for the community to come together; for an extended period of time, resident weavers and woodworkers become teachers for the wider Thanet community.

Exploring the self meant understanding personal design processes. This resulted in a series of experiments exploring the random nature of doing something for its own sake. Louis Pasteur, the physical chemist, referred to this as 'becoming a prepared mind' – doing a task for its own sake.

Three simple steps were followed:

1. To collect a found object, and consider why this has been collected.


2. To embark on a process of making and using the found object.


3. To draw, considering how steps one and two might translate into architecture.

Quote: Pasteur. L. in Peterson, H. (ed.) (1954) A Treasury of the World’s Greatest Speeches 8. New York: Simon and Schuster