Posts Tagged ‘ phd ’

The Memory Economy: Revaluing everyday objects

Duncan Shingleton Edinburgh College of Art Appadurai proposes that the circulation of commodities in social life can be summarised in the follow way.  ‘Economic exchange creates value.  Value is embodied in commodities that are exchanged.  Focusing on things that are exchanged, rather than simply on the forms or functions of exchange, makes it possible to argue that [ READ MORE ]

Whiteboard meeting

  • September 25th, 2009
  • Posted in research

I’ve had my first PhD meeting with my supervisor, Chris Speed.  We have covered the current projects being run by the TOTeM research group, and how I might fit and contribute to them.  Also more importantly, from my point of view, we began to unpack where I want to take my research.  Resulting whiteboards below. [ READ MORE ]

Object Centered Computing and Architecture

  • September 23rd, 2009
  • Posted in thoughts

Object centered computing is set to have a profound technological change just as the switch from personal computers to the networked-centered computers was.  Personal computers dealt with the assumption that everything one needed was stored locally.  Networked computers built upon that, assuming everything one needed could be made universally accessible on the internet.  What sort [ READ MORE ]

A Memory Object’s Implications on Identity

  • September 22nd, 2009
  • Posted in thoughts

Geser (2002) theorises that the deliberate linkage of the physical world with the virtual world through RFID tags and sensors, will lead to a further “permeability” between the public and private contexts expanding traditional physical spaces, through the creation of “virtual communication” spaces. As we become part of the global network, we are no longer [ READ MORE ]

Objects as Memory Artifacts

  • September 22nd, 2009
  • Posted in thoughts

Baudrillard (1996) discuses the capacity for objects to invoke memories within us, that they complexity of this relationship between human on object connoting the ‘emotional value’ objects take on; ‘What gives houses of our childhood such depth and resonance in memory is clearly the complex structure of interiority, and the objects within it serve for [ READ MORE ]

Objects as Devices for Memory Storage

  • September 22nd, 2009
  • Posted in thoughts

Can smarty objects transfer the agency of memory storage away from the person and instead, in an automated process of continual information capture and storage, provide a new memory repository that supports, relieves and occasionally replaces natural memory? Draaisma (2000) provides us with a metaphor of memory as objects, referring to memories as a‘store of precious [ READ MORE ]

PhD Studentship

I have been successful in my application for the TOTeM studentship at the Edinburgh College of Art, and I’m in the very fortunate position of receiving funding from the EPSRC for the 3 year full time PhD, which I will start in September. [ READ MORE ]

ECA Studentship Research Proposal

Research proposals are invited from applicants who have an interest in undertaking a practice-based PhD to examine to focus upon the implications of memory objects on architectural design. The research programme will establish theoretical and practical methodologies for the consideration of new spaces in the context of TOTeM. I have submitted an application for the PhD [ READ MORE ]