The Bird and The Elephant - artist in conversation 26th November 2021 3;30pm Square One, Coventry University

 

 HABITAT - Paper Installation Interior Architecture and Graphic Design November 2021

School of Art and Design, Coventry University 

Foreword to Caples Jefferson Architect's Book

 

Old Teaching blog links..

Found and looked through my old teaching blog links.. How time flies.. and how quickly we forget.,. I realise there needs to be time set aside to create more, record,, reflect,, learn...

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C3 Magazine Learning within Location and Place - Heidi Saarinen

My contribution to C3 Magazine No 412 Spring 2021 

Learning within Location and Place _ Heidi Saarinen

The environment we grow up in, is likely to color our early lives and personalities. This essay looks at examples of environmentally designed spaces for learning. The word ‘institution’ no longer fits well with the way that contemporary educational spaces are designed. The word sounds sterile, contaminated and restrictive. Instead, the spaces designed for education today, are more than schools or indeed ‘educational institutions’. They function, for many, as a home away from home, sometimes even as a respite from the norm, becoming a community in itself.
School activities challenge and enhance understanding of the outside world, through viewpoints (mental and visual) and encourage vistas out into the landscape beyond, that important connection, of community, of place. […]

Searching for local footprints - old textile factory

The Old Textile Factory

This building on Foleshill Road, Coventry, will become a new site for research and student projects this spring. More details to follow. For now, I am enjoying the exterior and daydreaming about it's past, current and future interiors..