Field Operations
Bartlett School of Architecture MArch Unit 11 with Ana Monrabal
Field operations—guidelines for actions and definitions of measures—are laid down by countless authorities to control the effects of ensuing events. Neither the rural nor urban landscape is immune to the advance of these nervous reactions as we aim to fix on the moving target of an uncertain future. Our culture is voracious in its consumption and production of data.
In a climate of change, an all-pervasive attitude for reassurance and need for definitive answers to anxious enquiries is unhelpfully fuelled by the endless collection and negotiation of data. This analysis and reliance on the vagaries of statistics masks the fact that interpreting data is not the same as proposing ideas. To propose ideas, speculate on the future, stimulate a curiosity for the strange, the odd and the unknown, we need to look at things in a new and different way. Students proposed thier own interpretations of Field Operations as frameworks for lyrical architectural propositions that acknowledge the challenges that face contemporary society, the city and the landscape.
Year 4 Students: Erin Byrne, Will Jeffries, Emily Keyte, Rae Whittow-Williams, Chris Wilkinson, Nick Wood,
Year 5 Sudents: Margaret Bursa, Jamies Davies, Tom Finch ,Joel Geoghegan, Johan Hybschmann, Alex Kirkwood, Holly Lewis, Elin Lund, Itai Palti, Luke Pearson