0.6 Programme Leader, Interior and Spatial Design, British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow
Just starting a new job, leading and teaching an interiors course for Russian students, who want a European-style design education, and to study in English. |
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0.4 Senior Research Fellow in Learning Spaces, University of Brighton This is a CETLD funded two year research project exploring the conceptual, personal, social, virtual and physical spaces for learning in Higher Education, to be published as a book by Routledge, entitled Towards Creative Learning Spaces: Re-thinking the architecture of post-compulsory education at the end of 2010. Go to Jos's Learning Spaces project blog> (images from 'Own Room' LMU Foundation project, where students were asked to imagine the minimum space required for creativity). |
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Taking place: the other side of waiting This Arts Council funded project for the Mother and Baby Unit, Homerton Hospital, East London, where takingplace are putting in 5 artsworks, is going on apace. The project will also be featured in the next Feminist Reveiw and the group is also part of the Spatial Agency programme, which is collating public paticipatory projects related to architecture from across Europe and beyond. To find out more about takingplace click here> |  |
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Land of Lost Opportunities (LOLO) Development of web and event based work, using photographs and text as a mode of exchange to enable the ritual removal of bad memories from previous situations. Currently being turned into interctive website (with Lars Wieneke) |
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So What is Normal? (SWIN) This is a research project in progress, funded by CETLD, University of Brighton. Its aim is to develop web-based educational resources for exploring creative relationships between disability and the built environment, beyond 'accessibility'. |
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Discrete Carnage A collaboration in progress with photojournalist Pierre Chuckwudi Alozie. We are currently working by making selections and arrangments of each others' work; as a means of understanding how our creative practice overlaps in capturing "violence as both a direct and subtle thing; violence to social conditions/to the individual psyche.... that crosses into vulnerability, exposure, survival....that might be observed in crisis situations and in everyday life." Work in progress was exhibited at Spinach Jan - Mar 2009. |
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Licking Architecture; new ways of seeing contemporary architecture A book in progress written as a series of case studies of recent public buildings globally; which engages with how non-specialists make sense of the material world. |
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