The Heat Island Research Residency was a summer education program that explored how architectural practice can reshape itself in the face of major ecological questions.
Three recent graduates were offered the chance to develop a funded design research project of their own in collaboration with Heat Island, to expand the horizons of how we collectively address the climate crisis.
More info: http://residency2020.heat-island.com
The process also involved contributions and guest lectures from:
The reading and research collated by the group was archived here:
Three projects where developed:
Rosa Whiteley - London's Oil Critters: Material Secrets of an Oil City
An investigation into the economics and ecologies of the oil industry in London, that uncovers the surprising biological and material interdependencies of the globalised oil industry. It charts the rapidly shifting growth patterns of four organisms - or critters - who's lifecycles are intertwined with the production and shipping of oil products.
Zoe Panayi - An Erratic Calendar: Time Design & The Renewable Transition
A project exploring the potentially profound social implications of power sources that promise clean, cheap abundant energy – but just not all the time. Are moving away from an economy based on always-on, continuous output and processes and towards a world where the time cycles for industrial production of steel, hydrogen or cement might need to be reconsidered and redesigned? Could the future of manufacturing be seasonality?
Essay and Context - https://residency2020.heat-island.com/an-erratic-calendar
The Erratic Calendar (BETA) - https://residency2020.heat-island.com/an-erratic-calendar/calendar
Phoebe Walton's - PWSMPFI
What is the role of climate models and data visualisation in expanding the possibility space of alternative futures? PWSMPFI is not only a brief history of international climate models and the highly influential scenarios, climate pathways and policy actions they generate, but also a moment of reflection on the abstractions they depend on. Should we consider deep future climate forecasts to be speculations, fictions, design briefs – or all three?
Project Presentations
