Art, Design & Architecture

This year at Ecobuild Kingston University’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture will be launching a brand new version of the rematerialise website  rematerialise.org. This new website is the on-line portal to rematerialise; the sustainable materials library developed by Jakki Dehn, Reader in Sustainable Design over the last 18 years. It is highly regarded by architects and designers as one of the field’s leading resources. The site provides an easy-access overview of the environmental benefits of a wide range of materials and allows users to see colour ranges and company contact information.

The physical library, now housed in the Design School at Kingston University, is a catalyst for innovation and collaboration. This collection enables industry professionals, educators, researchers, students and anyone with a need to know more about ecologically responsible design to see and handle materials that use fewer non-renewable resources, materials that can be re-grown and materials that are often overlooked.

On Stand S663 this year Jakki Dehn will be showcasing the latest range of materials developed from renewable resources including hemp flooring, bio plastic composites and corn starch packaging.

Visit Jakki Dehn and the Rematerialise team on stand S663 to see these new materials or make an appointment to view over 1,200 material samples from 22 countries by e-mailing rematerialise@kingston.ac.uk

Medium.Rare

The Rag Factory Ltd, 16-18 Heneage Street, Brick Lane, London E15
Saturday 10 March 16.00 – 21.00

sponsored by Budvar Budweiser

Performance @ 20.00

“To define the medium of a collective is near impossible, as represented — each is a rarity and yet always entangled in what is essentially a mediumship.”

For one night only MEDIUM.RARE will be holding an exhibition at The Rag factory

Work presented by;
Anna Boyd
Chris Sebestik
Daisy May
Ellie Ashdown
Ellie Wyatt
Gemma Cagney
Georgina Brinkman
Hattie Ball
Jack O’Brien
James Parr
Josie Bishop
Joss Taylor
Megan Ross
Poppy Deyes
Poppy Moroney
Sean O’Connor
Sylvan Cruz

For more information; http://themediumrare.tumblr.com/

The 2012 Civic Trust Award winners have been chosen, with Kingston alumnus David Chipperfield and Kingston lecturer Adam Khan bagging two gongs each.

Chipperfield’s Hepworth Gallery was chosen as the jury’s favourite project, while Adam Khan’s Brockholes Visitor Centre won the special award for sustainability.

Studio Weaves’ Longest Bench, in Littlehampton, took the special award for community impact and engagement; and Gareth Hoskins’ revamp of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh won the special award for Scotland.

Malcolm Hankey, managing director of the awards, said: “The Civic Trust Awards celebrate not only design excellence, but also the relationship between structures, places, the environment and communities. Winning projects have demonstrated architectural excellence whilst offering cultural, social or economic benefit to the local community.”

The Michael Middleton special award for a restoration project or new-build in a conservation area was given to Eric Parry’s Holbourne Museum of Art in Bath.

For more information please visit:

http://www.civictrustawards.org.uk/

British Waterways has commissioned Kingston University’s Landscape interface Studio to develop a ‘Waterways Forward’ social network to support the communication and dissemination of the EU ‘Waterways Forward’ project.

‘Waterways Forward’ is an EU project funded through the European Region Development Fund.  The main objective of the project is to improve the management of regional inland waterways and the regions adjacent to them by promoting an integrated, sustainable and participatory approach. The project aims at developing recommendations for improved and state of the art governance models that are creating a sound basis for more integrated regional policies to boost the socio/economic development of inland waterways and adjacent areas in a balanced way, while respecting nature and environment .

Landscape Interface Studio has secured a contract to set up the following suite of sites which provide different platforms to market the project and these will be updated regularly with news, views and information.

• the WF blog http://waterwaysforward.wordpress.com/ – this site posts videos, photos, interviews, documents, and project/partner information.   In addition, the blog features a Waterways Forward interactive Google map with information on all the projects outputs embedded into the map.

• ‘Waterways Forward’ Linkedin group

• Twitter account  @waterwayforward