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Mirror City Timelapse by Michael Shainblums

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Enduring Forces

Extraction of force lines and the relationships of objects to their neighbours, following a physics test in Blender, on the effects of slowly crushing a replica of Shackleton's ship, Endurance.

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APOLLO 11 Scale Mapping

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Death of the K7 Bluebird

Analysis of the crash and death of the iconic moment that captured a generation. 

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom

HyperDesert | T.E.Lawrence

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'Cirrus' - Bonobo

by Cyriak

Spectacular animation illustrating a constructed landscape using clips from a 1962 film about the wonders of consumerism.

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SPACE, THE UNIVERSE and SUCH. Mankind's Endeavour into the cosmos.

- Most complete Map of the Local Universe, May 2011.

'Space'

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T.E. Lawrence | 16 August 1888 - 19 May 1935 | Scholar, Archaeologist, Bristish Intelligence Officer.

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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton - 15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922

Polar Explorer, Leader, Hero.

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Ernest Shackelton: 497 Days

Deformation and destruction tests on key spaces and objects of the Endurance Expedition

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Donald Malcolm Campbell CBE

'The Speed King'

23 March 1921 - 4 January 1967

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Perry Kulper

David’s Island Strategic Plot Drawing made: 1996-97

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Subjects of Endeavour

1. Donald Campbell: Speed Record Breaker  [William Slack]

2. Apollo 11: Moon Landing  [Thomas Lobb]

3. T.E Lawrence: Arabia  [Alicea Berkin]

4. Ernest Shackleton: Polar Explorer [Jonathan Jones]

5. Nikola Tesla: Electro-magnetic Landscape  [Assia Stefanova]

6. Edouard-Alfred Martel: Cave Exploration [Angela Crosby]

7. Sir John Franklin: North-West Passage [Jess Davis]

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Taking Measures Across the American Landscape 

James Corner

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Mask XXXV

John Stezaker

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Landscapes of Human Endeavour

Human endeavour has often been associated with expansive and unknowable landscapes, from George Mallory’s first attempt to ‘conquer’ the summit of Mount Everest in 1924 through to Felix Baumgartner’s recent skydive from a helium balloon 24 miles above the Earth’s surface. This project aims to spatialise these events in a way that highlights how human endeavour and expansive landscape are inherently linked and to some degree inter-dependent. A key aim of the project is to explore new ways in which these events and these landscape conditions can be represented.

Often these endeavours are undertaken in isolation, or in small, focussed groups. This makes the mindset of the endeavourer very particular: one that’s driven towards isolation in order to reach beyond known physical and personal limits. The physique, the psyche and the landscape are connected through these endeavours, and each element is pushed towards or beyond its limits.

How can we explore such an act spatially? This project is deeply concerned with the difficulties, or perhaps impossibilities, of representing spaces of a scale vastly different to our own bodily perception. The starting point for our representations, it seems, must be the body itself; the physical anchor point between internal psyche and external landscape. The body is our only scaling device in this project and will be a recurring anchor for our representations.

Each project within this studio will be an endeavour - to explore new means by which we can represent and conceive of landscape and the activities these landscapes hold.