The Leeds School of Architecture Yearbook 2023

The Public Haybox
A Postcard Grand Tour
The Public Haybox: A project for The
Commons
Conference
Sustaining Art: People, Practice, Planet
in Contemporary Art Conservation,
Dundee, Novmeber 2022
Authors
James Harrington
Sally Labern
The Drawing Shed x Studio Polpo
The Public Haybox is a project by artists Sally Labern (The Drawing Shed) and James
Harrington (Studio Polpo / Lecturer at LBU). The Project continues their collaborations
co-producing and using objects and devices as common resources. Through making
and cooking with haybox ovens - a low-energy cooking method using the foods own
heat - they invite people to share food, critical dialogues in curious, multi-modal ways,
and bring experiences, histories, and imagination to the fore.
The Public Haybox was shared with delegates at the conference Sustaining Art, Dundee,
making haybox ovens with participants from repurposed materials from a local
organisation, whilst discussing and demonstration the dialogical and action-orienated
potential of this method and project. The project recently received support from the
Royal Society of Arts to expand the project with groups across East London. Approaches
developed from this project were used by students in BA2+3 Studio RESOURCE!.
A Postcard Grand Tour; or the Self-
Importance of Being Eugenie Strong
Event
Reading Postcard Architecture
Against the Grain, SAH 2023 Annual
Conference, Montréal, April 2023
Authors
Renée Tobe
Website
https://arthist.net/archive/36869
In April this year, I spoke at the SAH Montréal in a session entitled: Reading Postcards
Against the Grain. My talk tells the story of British archaeologist and art historian Eugenie
Strong through her postcard collection. She was a contemporary of Oscar Wilde and
Henry James. Some of the postcards are purchased as collections while others are individual
cards she sent to, or received from correspondents, in the days when postcards
were used to make polite requests, or as a thank you note. The postcards were often
addressed to her at Chatsworth House where she was librarian, or the Albermarle Club,
her London address or later, the British School at Rome. Not uncontroversial, Strong
admired Benito Mussolini’s desire for the archaeological ‘hygienic liberation’ of Rome’s
imperial monuments as well as some of his politics.
The Play Gap
Chloe Goodman (2023), Construction Toy
A View from Paradise
Lars Aarø / Olafur Eliasson Studio (2017)
The Play Gap; Construction Toys in the
Design Process
Conference
Association of Architectural Educators
Conference, Cardiff, July 2023
Authors
Jennifer Chalkley
Website
https://architecturaleducators.org/
This paper deals with the use of construction toys in the development of architectural
design. It specifically considers how the act of play, through developing and playing
with a construction toy, impacts student design processes. The methodology is based
on a literature review and reflections on using construction toys with undergraduate
students of Interior Architecture and Design.
Existing research on the use of construction toys as a pedagogical tool are focussed on
a gaming approach, which requires rules, outcomes and competition. This structured
play does not embody the qualities of play which encourage analogical thinking, accidental
learning, and inclusivity. Play, in its most unstructured form can be unproductive
(no outcome), uncompetitive, and not bound by rules. The study looks at the use of
construction toys in spatial design education; specifically, the narrative of unstructured
play in students design process.
A View from Paradise: Olafur Eliasson’s
Your Rainbow Panorama
Journal
OASE 111 Journal for Architecture:
Staging the Museum (2022): 131-41
Authors
María Álvarez García (Coauthor)
Olafur Eliasson’s “Your Rainbow Panorama”, built on the rooftop of ARoS museum
in Aarhus (DK), did not only intend to complete the museum’s narrative inspired by
Dante’s Divine Comedy, but to create a specific framework to think anew. Dwelling
on the history of the panoramas and aligned with the city’s slogan for the European
Capital of Culture in 2017, “Let’s Rethink”, Eliasson constructed an apparatus, or as he
defined it, “an expectation machine”, that aimed at modifying our vision. By analysing
the ideological and historical context of “Your Rainbow Panorama”, this paper discusses
how Olafur Eliasson’s work attempted to redefine both the staging of ARoS museum
and, ultimately, the city.