PROJECTS OUT-POST, Liverpool VACANT LOT,London SIT IN, Liverpool HATFIELD, Slough The Travelling Shed, Surrey Mobile stage Bermondsey Square, London Cow the udder way, Liverpool Facing East, London Roof garden, London Haus, Germany Produce, London TEACHING/RESEARCH Places of uncertainty, Liverpool Placed in Beckton, London Places of uncertainty, Sheffield Modesty Screened, London INFORMATION Contact Profile

Spaces of uncertainty Over the last few decades cities have undergone a shift from being places of PRODUCTION to becoming centres of CONSUMPTION. Cities are supplied with vast amounts of energy, food and natural resources and produce mountains of waste. What if this apparently uneven process was turned on its head? How might this change the way you live? The unit balanced research and documentation with a ‘hands-on’ approach. Students were encouraged to follow their interests, test their ideas at different scales and experiment in ways of communicating their projects. The unit programme was divided into overlapping tasks with an emphasis on ‘making real’. Through these tasks students were encouraged to engage more closely with the realities of a given environment and with the public. These challenges required levels of negotiation/communication with both the physical and the user/audience. We began the year at HOME by looking in detail at the place where we live, relative to our daily routines. How does HOME relate to the street the neighbourhood, the city and beyond? The years’ work focused on LIVERPOOL, a city that has seen a significant shift from PRODUCTION. The decline of its shipping port and the general demise of manufacturing industries have resulted in the active movement of a population away from the city leaving voids within the urban fabric. The unit set out to analyse both the physical impact of these voids and their social and economic effects. Informed by this research, “SMALL CHANGE” strategies were developed for this ‘available land’ and tested through on-site 1:1 interventions.

“A celebration for place-ness” by Kota Kato with Unit F students

SMALL CHANGE exhibition and lecture at the Tab Centre, Hackney

(BIO)GAS WORKS by Don Barker

Community Centre by Kota Kato

UNIT F students 05/06: Don Barker Franco Calligaro Fernando Carballal Low Choon Hong Ryan Clarke Richard Hale Jonathan Jordan Kota Kato Hiroshisa Kouda Liam Morrisey Ai Murai Colin O’Sullivan Katrina Rasay

Presidents Meda, nomination: Ai Murai