Themes Forms Materials Techniques

THEMES, FORMS, MATERIALS TECHNIQUES

Works in Progress from MArch Architecture Year 3

Curated by: Professor Nic Clear, Hyun Jun Park Vijay Taheem

MARKET HARDWARE: Queensgate Market, Units 154 -158

Wednesday 7^th November to Tuesday 20^th November

Opening Times: Mon – Fr1  9.00 – 5.30, Sat 8.30 – 5.30

The creative arts play a significant part in the UK’s economic infrastructure and with the impending social and political transformations that are being brought about by the implementation of greater levels of de-industrialisation and automation the importance of creative practice is expected to grow as we move into a more knowledge-based economy.

Kirklees have identified art and culture as an important strategic element for the future of Huddersfield and its town centre with initiatives involving the University, local citizens and other key stakeholders. It is a strategy that is already impacting at a number of levels from Town Planning to site specific installations in the Queensgate Market. Huddersfield is a town that has a history for innovation and an abundance of empty space.

Currently the School of Art Design and Architecture is working with Kirklees to develop these ideas through the ‘TEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY’ initiative part of which is dedicated to ‘Re-Thinking Huddersfield’.

Final year MArch Architecture students have been asked to look at how art and culture might be used as part of a wider set of spatial strategies to encourage social transformation, create new cultural ecologies, develop new building typologies, and to empower citizens to communicate their ambitions and frustrations, and commemorate their successes and their tragedies.

Students have drawn upon their own cultural and spatial interests to develop meaningful projects that will facilitate their architectural journey beyond the university and to develop a model of practice that will set them up as designers in the 21^st century.

The first part of the year has been to identify tactics, strategies, techniques and themes that will enable students to develop their Design Thesis and present their initial concepts as part of an exhibition of work in progress at Market Hardware in the Queensgate Market as part of TEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY.

  

Nic Clear 2018