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The Floating Cinema
the floating cinema, www.floatingcinema.info, 2011
Website styling, design and build with content management system.
The Floating Cinema was commissioned by UP Projects as part of their Portavilion series of mobile public event spaces. For the 2011 Portavilion somewhere and Studio Weave decided to create a cinema on a converted barge that would roam the waterways of East London, including areas around the new Olympic Development.
somewhere wanted a website to better reflect what they were trying to achieve than the existing portavilion website, that would offer them a space to document their process as well as the events, and give them a space to post films of the events thereafter. From this I developed the idea of orientating the site around a map of the waterways involved, styling it to give visual emphasis to this oft overlooked back bone of London's past. This also created a spatial snapshot of events and where the influences for the project come from. Blog posts come via mobile phone allowing the embedded GPS data to used to attach the images to the map.
Over the course of the project an additional record of the events will be created, turning the site from a promotional tool and booking mechanism into a full archive of the events.
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Office for Contemporary Art Norway
office for contemporary arts norway, www.oca.no, 2011.
Website styling, design & build with Content Management System.
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway was founded by the Norwegian government with the aim of promoting visual arts and production in Norway to an international audience, and to stimulate international exchange in the arts.
I was commissioned to help OCA transition from a flat file, hand maintained website to something 'more modern' which better reflected the scope of their work, whilst reflecting their established, restrained, aesthetic, and help to improve their publishing workflow.
My aim in the redesign of OCA.no was: to improve the ability for the various audience demographics to find the information they are looking for; to provide a framework for richer documentation of their projects; to better emphasise the wide range of international connections OCA has and is developing; to provide an improved channel for communicating their multiple activities.
The OCA.no website is part publishing platform, part database, the goal of which is to link together the various practitioners and organisations OCA work with with how they work with them, to present a transparent picture of OCAs activities at all levels. As new relationships are established, and new documentation is created, the site will unfold into it's full potential creating an evolving document of OCAs field of influence.
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Rip It Up and Start Again
rip it up and start again, www.ripitupandstartagain.org, 2011.
Website design & build with Content Management System.
Rip It Up and Start Again is a series of lectures on architecture and the city, curated by Robert Mull and Kieran Long of London Met Architecture and Spatial Design to place the work of the school in relation to broader debates about the city.
The Useful Arts Organisation were engaged to develop a living archive which documented the talks and presentations in a dynamic way, whilst keeping the strong visual identity that had been developed for the print materials promoting the lectures, and providing a space where visitors could leave their own annotations to the talks.
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Portland Works
portland works, www.portlandworks.co.uk, 2010.
Website styling, design & build with Content Management System.
Portland Works (Sheffield, UK), built in 1877, is one of the earliest surviving examples of an integrated metal trades complex Nowadays it plays host to a wide range of crafts and arts. In 2008 the owners decided to attempt to sell it, displacing many of the tenants and risking the survival of some of the skills acted out there. The tenants decided to group together and now plan to buy the building and run it as a co-operative.
In 2010 The Useful Arts Organisation were commisioned by Sheffield University to re-design their campaign website to better present the story and to act as a platform for fund raising and promotion. The site is built to be easily managed by the team there and to be able to provide a rich document of a space with a rich history and a hopeful future.
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Fugitive Images
fugitive images, www.fugitiveimages.org.uk, 2010.
Website styling, design & build with Content Management System.
Fugitive Images is a the collaborative art practise of Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Lasse Johansen, who the useful arts organisation worked with previously on the i am here website. For their portfolio site they wanted a simple, clean minimal site that was flexible enough to represent the various strands of their work whilst being easily self-managed.
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International Village Shop
International Village Shop, www.internationalvillageshop.net, 2010.
Website design & build with Content Management System. Design direction from Kathrin Böhm (myvillages.org/public works)
The International Village Shop is the collective documentation of the various experiments and approaches to trade that have been undertaken by Grizedale Arts, myvillages.org, public works and somewhere since 2007. The aim of the site is to further map these activities and provide centralised documentation of the activities, as well as a platform for the potential exploration of alternative models of trade on-line.
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Agri-Culture
Agri-Cultur, www.agri-cultur.eu, 2010.
Website design & build with Content Management System.
Agri-Culture is a pan-european network of organisations exploring the realtionship between Farming (Agri) and Art (Culture). This website is set up as a portal to link together like minded practitioners and to provide a space for theoretical documents on their practise to be published.
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Rhyzom
Rhyzom, www.rhyzom.net, 2010.
Website design & build with Content Management System.
Rhyzom is a collaborative network initiated by Atelier d'architecture autogérée to explore local cultural production and translocal dissemination.
The Rhyzom.net website was developed to allow the participants to document their activities and projects as part of the network, and to show the complex set of connections between participants activities and outcomes, growing over time. Part document, part map, the website design merges navigation into structure to represent the rhizomatic nature of the network.
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Rossi & Rossi
Rossi & Rossi, www.rossirossi.com, 2010.
Website design & build with Content Management System.
Rossi & Rossi are an art gallery specialising in contemporary and classical Asian artworks.
The Useful Arts were commissioned to update their out dated web presence, providing a new site design and improved visibility of exhibition, artworks and artist information, to provide a cleaner, clearer experience with the focus on the artworks that they represent.
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public works
public works, www.publicworksgroup.net, 2010.
Website design & build with Content Management System.
public works are an art & architecture practise working within and towards public space.
We created this website in collaboration with the team to allow them to move away from an in-house site built using DreamWeaver with Wordpress blogs, to something more dynamic that would allow all of the team members to manage their own projects within a content management system, and provide better interlinking between their works.
This project is part of an ongoing relationship with public works that includes Folkestonomy, Colchester Inn, International Village Shop and DIY Regeneration.
