provisional construction *

provisional construction
The challenges to architecture provoked by global environmental change can be understood not as a set of poorly understood constraints but as a real possibility for creativity: for building more with much less, for providing a new sense of the permanent as the ongoing and provisional.
We might think of architecture therefore as provisional construction. [...]

Posted at 11:54 am on February 21, 2008 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

The Wrench

‘No, no, I can’t tell you everything. Either I tell you about the country or else I tell you what happened. But, in your place, I’d pick what happened, because its a good story. Then, if you really want to write it down, you can work on it, grind it, hone it, deburr it, hammer [...]

Posted at 9:21 pm on November 29, 2007 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Uncategorized | read on

About

Shed  ^ | / _   is the provisional construction* and collaborative space in which Renata Tyszczuk and others work together on a diverse range of creative and critically engaged projects.
It is part Studio, part Workshop, part Laboratory and part Think Tank.
It is about questioning the way things are done in the areas of architecture, education, media and environment.
The practice to date has spanned design, research, teaching, experimental film making, broadcast, curation and installation; making maps, artefacts, events, texts, memories and other traces.