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The Bartlett Fifteen Show 2023 Prizewinners
11 December 2023
Three graduates from Design for Manufacture MArch, Design for Performance and Interaction MArch, and Situated Practice MA were honoured with prizes at The Bartlett Fifteen Show launch party.
The Bartlett Fifteen Show launch party took place on Friday 08 December, officially opening the two-week-long exhibition which celebrates innovative work developed by graduating students on the school's fifteen-month Master's programmes.
Director of School Amy Kulper presented three graduates with prizes recognising their thought-provoking and boundary-pushing projects. The winners represent the three exhibiting programmes, Design for Manufacture MArch, Design for Performance and Interaction MArch, and Situated Practice MA.
You can browse the Fifteen show online to see all the exhibiting projects or visit the show in person at the school’s Bloomsbury campus at 22 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0QB. The show is live until Friday 22 December.
Prizewinners
Design for Manufacture MArch
‘Multi-Nozzle Manufacturing: Auxetic Facade and Individual Nozzle Control’ by Tom Younger
The Bartlett School of Architecture Medal for Design for Manufacture MArch
This project focuses on developing multi-nozzle manufacturing, exploring two directions – application and tool improvement.
For application, a pneumatic shading façade was developed which utilises the expansion and contraction of auxetic patterns to mediate levels of light within a building. These patterns were printed with silicone using a multi-nozzle manifold. The re-entrant auxetic patterns are perfect for multi-nozzle manufacturing due to their cellular repeating structure. Because of the number and size of patterns needed for a façade, the increase of speed that multi-nozzle achieves makes the process more efficient.
During the initial research, the manifolds could only create flat uniform structures. Individual nozzle control was implemented to print complex objects. This was achieved by introducing pneumatic spool valves within each piston. This system is combined with a Festo 5/2 valve manifold and can constrict flow when a digital signal is received. This means the manifold can act as a single nozzle when printing the shell or outline of the object and then activate multiple nozzles when printing the material intensive infill.
Design for Performance & Interaction MArch
'Typo’ by James Camilleri*
The Bartlett School of Architecture Medal for Design for Performance & Interaction MArch
Typo is an interactive experience centred on a vintage typewriter that has a life of its own. Animated by robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), it writes poetry through dialogue with its human audience.
The mechanical typewriter is an anachronism from a bygone era, yet it remains a potent symbol of mechanisation and progress in art and literature. By splicing together the digital and the analogue, new life is brought into the machine, turning it into a primary performer, capable of responding to its surroundings and creating of its own accord. Through its exploration of AI, Typo prompts its audience to question originality, and to grapple with their views on algorithmically generated art, compared to pieces crafted entirely by human minds and hands. When poems are a product of user input, software and a vast digital library of existing literature, who is the artist?
Typo offers moments of wonder and playfulness, as audiences interact with an enigmatic machine in a variety of live performances and experience the often vague and overly technical world of AI in a tangible way. No longer a simple tool, Typo takes a role of autonomous co-creator alongside its audience.
*James Camilleri studied Design for Performance & Interaction MArch on a modular basis. Typo was completed and exhibited as part of The Bartlett Fifteen Show 2022. James graduated in 2023.
Situated Practice MA
‘Threads of Revolution’ by Taral Patel
The Bartlett School of Architecture Medal for Situated Practice MA
Pictured above
Threads of Revolution is a tactile and critical reflection of the author’s journey from 'taught’ history to ’factual’ history. The project utilises stitching as re-writing to subvert the historiography of India’s freedom struggle, and Khadi as a counter-material, to archive and bring into Indian consciousness the suppressed history of armed resistance against British colonial rule.
Through an innovative blend of archival research, textile cartography, counter-mapping and site-specific performance, Threads of Revolution identifies and re-situates the sites across London beyond the existing blue plaque honouring the Indian patriot and philosopher, Vinayak Savarkar at India House, a meeting point of Indian revolutionaries between 1905 to 1910.
More information
- Visit the Fifteen show
- Find out more about Design for Manufacture MArch
- Find out more about Design for Performance & Interaction MArch
- Find out more about Situated Practice MA
Lead image: ‘Threads of Revolution’ by Taral Patel, Situated Practice MA