Archive for March, 2010

Walking Through Time JISC article

Walking Through Time JISC article

This was a nice write up by JISC, not really a paper, but fits within this category! To download the entire PDF click here The project continues toward a public app – we’ve applied for a further 10k from JISC to develop an iPhone app in time for the Edinburgh Festival in the summer. Should […]


Migratory Settings Book

Migratory Settings Book

Review by me for Leonardo Reviews interesting book – slow to get through, but worth it. Migratory Settings, Part of the Thamyris Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race Series Edited by Murat Aydemir and Alex Rotas Published by Rodopi, Amsterdam/NewYork, 2008. 276 pp., illus. Trade, $85. ISBN: 978-90-420-2425-0 Reviewed by [Chris Speed. School of Architecture, Edinburgh […]


Phylogeny Workshop

Phylogeny Workshop

In preparation for a new Journal that Mike Phillips and I are preparing, we through a very interesting workshop around the theme of Phylogeny. This is the project site that reveals all, http://www.ubiquity.net/phylogeny turned out to be amazing. Lots of mini-talks around the theme and a great deal of discussion that unpacked the many dimensions […]


Digital Skin workshop

Digital Skin workshop

Documentation of the first years Digital Skin 48 hour workshop at the Inspace Gallery at the School of Informatics. Working in teams of 4/5 the students were encouraged to make a short video piece that responded to the idea of a skin for the building. Because the data projectors at Inspace project on to translucent […]


The Madness of Old Town

The Madness of Old Town

 ’Your shoe,’ I repeated. ‘Perhaps you’d put it on.’ He continued to look downwards, though not at the shoe, with an intense but misplaced concentration. Finally his gaze settled on his foot: ‘That is my shoe, yes?’ Did I mis-hear? Did he mis-see? ‘My eyes,’ he explained, and put a hand on his foot. ‘This is my […]