A Radical Thames Estuary
Photographic surveys from the Bata Estate in East Tilbury, capturing the relationship between the modernist factory buildings and the surrounding agricultural landscape.
Photographs in Digital Publication
Introduction
An introduction to the scope of the architectural thesis
Digital Publication
The Commons
Chapter One investigating the commons as a departure point for creating parallel, citizen led approaches to urban design.
Digital Publication
The Commons - The Theory Of Commoning
The Commons - The Radical Commons
The Commons - Elinor Ostrom's Principles For Long-Enduring Common Pool Resources
The Commons - Designing A Praxis of Commoning
From a series of theoretical transects through the Worlds of Cpmmoning from Hardt + Negri to Ostrom, a new praxis for commoning is proposed, which scaffolds a framework for commoning that is attuned to multiplicities.
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From Participation To Plur-Ticipation : Participation In Architectural Design
From Participation To Plur-Ticipation : A Conflictual Participation
From Participation To Plur-Ticipation : Reading Plur-ticipatory Practics
A Model For Plur-Ticipatory Practice
Seeking to engage traditional participatory practice to address multiplicity and pluarlisms that exists when working with social environments, an understanding and working relationship to difference is needed. Through the work of Chantal Mouffe and Markus Miessen, a model for working with difference to form a plur-ticipatory practice is developed.
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A Radical Thames Estuary - Plur-Ticipating (In) East Tilbury
East Tilbury and the Bata Estate become a test-bed for engaging the public with plur-ticipatory practice.
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A Radical Thames Estuary : (Hi)Stories of Radical Thinking
A Radical Thames Estuary : Mappings of the Bata Estate
A Radical Thames Estuary : Opening Of Common Ground
A Radical Thames Estuary - Opening of Common Ground
Site photographs of the modernist dwellings / company town housing on the estate and the first community meeting with members of the Bata Heritage Centre.
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Plur-ticipatory (Co)-Production : Speculating Future(s) of Bata
Plur-ticipatory (Co)-Production : Stanford House as Public Test-bed
Plur-ticipatory (Co)-Production : Addressing the Agonisms with Liveability
A Radical Thames Estuary - Plur-ticipating (In) East Tilbury
Model Negotiations on the agonistic theme of community
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A Radical Thames Estuary - Plur-ticipating (In) East Tilbury
Model Negotiations between the Bata Heritage Centre, residents and wider local community on the multiple futures for an inclusive development of East Tilbury.
Digital Publication
Diffracted Readings from Plur-ticipatory Engagements on The Past
Diffracted Readings from Plur-ticipatory Engagements on The Past
Diffracted Readings from Plur-ticipatory Engagements on The Past
A Radical Thames Estuary - Plur-ticipating (In) East Tilbury
A catalogue of Utopia Station negotiations for a speculative design of the (future) Bata Estate, with input from the past-present for future.
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COMMONING EAST TILBURY : Designing an Alternative, Difference-Attuned Methodology for Urban Change
In times where politics, ecological disasters and the grip of “the economy” calls into question how individuals, collective action and design-thinking can enable urban change, this thesis investigates alternative methodologies that allow for critical engagement and the inclusion of difference in relation to architecture and the built environment.
Through an emphasis on balancing theory and practice to develop methodologies that enable agency over the processes of urbanisation, plur-ticipation is based on applying theory around commoning and participation into a propositional pluralistic participation that is tested on site (in East Tilbury) to analyse its ability to involve and address the multiplicity within communities. Key findings are that the data produced from a plur-ticipatory process are revealing of the multitude, but forms part of a symbiotic process in which the results will need to be fed back to the community and (re)read and (re) diffracted to be understood. They are not to be read as individual solutions to a problem, rather expressions of a larger whole. The limitations of the research are considered in relation to sample-size and diversity of the contributors and implications of this work for future research on participatory design should be taken with regard to testing in practice.
Through an emphasis on balancing theory and practice to develop methodologies that enable agency over the processes of urbanisation, plur-ticipation is based on applying theory around commoning and participation into a propositional pluralistic participation that is tested on site (in East Tilbury) to analyse its ability to involve and address the multiplicity within communities. Key findings are that the data produced from a plur-ticipatory process are revealing of the multitude, but forms part of a symbiotic process in which the results will need to be fed back to the community and (re)read and (re) diffracted to be understood. They are not to be read as individual solutions to a problem, rather expressions of a larger whole. The limitations of the research are considered in relation to sample-size and diversity of the contributors and implications of this work for future research on participatory design should be taken with regard to testing in practice.
Dimensions / 176 x 250mm
* Limited run of hard copies in print and risograph coming soon...
Awards/
Distinction in Thesis
Project / MArch (Year 5) Architectural Thesis , Bartlett Unit 13
Thesis Tutors / Dr. Claire McAndrew + Oliver Wilton
Year / 2020