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PROJECTS REVIEW 2009 WEBSITE

The Projects Review Website 2009 is now online, with an overview of the student projects per units/department and the schools research clusters and year round activities. The website developed by despark (with AA Digital Platforms who has also conducted a revamp of the school's website) presents an interactive grid of squared images that revolve hyperlinking to sub-grids with the students projects per unit or department.

Here are some screenshots of my project pages, in the moment when passing from one page to the next, both pages make an appearence while disappearing, colapsing in one single dynamical image, different realities and distinct scales, strange textual and visual formations, generating an array of unthinkable possibilities.



[ images: website screenshots of AA Projects Review 2009/PhD/Emanuel Jose Rocha Ferreira de Sousa ]

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Projects Review 2009 opens tomorrow, Friday 3 July, offering an overview of the AA's 600+ full-time students projects displaying from drawings, modeels, installations, photographs, to large 1:1 working prototypes, intractive media, including the AA summer pavillion in Bedford Square.



The PhD programme exhibition, curated by Kirk Wooller and myself, Emanuel de Sousa, unites all of these modes of representation and presentation, through a full-scale installation in the reception area. Comprising a blown-up tiled catalogue of the PhDs completed and approved until now at the AA, the entrance wall sees itself profanated by a real-time graffiti intervention that tags all ongoing research (and other things) in the institution, challenging the established knowledge.
Projects Review 2009 runs from Friday 3 July to Saturday 25 July 2009.


[ images: PhD Projects Review 2009 exhibition area, AA Reception. Photos by Emanuel de Sousa. Please find more photos here ]

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1 MINUTE! 1 MANIFESTO! 1 BEER!



AA MANIFESTO: IDEOLOGY was a pre-event (a 'beer summit' to tell the truth!) organised as a pre-event to the AA PhD Dialogues ‘Ideology in Transparency’, 8 May 2009.
Here's the calling we launched along with a bunch of posters (which I designed) that announced the event throughout the AA and wider London.

'Calling All Visionaries!
Are you disgruntled with the current state of architecture?
Do you have a better vision for its immediate future?
Can you formulate this vision into a 1-minute manifesto?
Will you seize this opportunity to shout it from the rooftops?'

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After six months since the last post, here am I! Again!
And writing in English! And with new ideas to make this blog alive again, (besides the comprehensive resource of cool websites of creatives that I know people, specially friends, use to avoid googling for some architect or designer)
From now on the website will shift between english and portuguese, depending where the action is placed, as since 2008 (old news, I know) I have been based most of my time in London (some people say, I am doing my PhD, and so I should believe so... everyday)
Well this (pseudo) return has been in my mind for some time now, but it got always postponed, and then a series of events, just made me think about it again.
First it was a visit (well, a comment that was left here in one of the posts) which made me think that it was still alive (although almost dying and threaten with extinction in the blogsphere) and secondly, this friday, in a lecture at AA, a blogger (Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLOG), said that nowadays, if your blog has not 400 visits per day or per post in each day (oh my god, I had 26 visits this month... what a disgrace) , it is like the end of the world (you are like in the dead zone of blogsphere).
Well, I am alive and kicking, as they say.
I am not aiming at having 16.000 people every month visiting the blog, but who ever is interested in architecture and theatre, then they will have posts on that every other day.
Well, I should stop writing! Till the next post (which will be right now, I will do some retroactive posts to put everything up-to-date, so this week, will be peculiar, with a bunch of posts all uploaded instantly... we'll see)

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