Category: Experiments

  • Felted Rockpools

    Felted Rockpools

    These felted rockpools have been designed by Keith Torrance and textile artist Shirley Torrance. Prototypes were produced by participants to a wet felting workshop ran by Shirley in November 2023 at Lancaster University. The rockpools were then taken to the University of Strathclyde where they were treated with MiCP. In December, the calcified rockpools were…

  • Architecture Between the Tides (pilot workshop)

    Architecture Between the Tides (pilot workshop)

    Architecture between the tides was a 3-day workshop delivered as part of the Lancaster School of Architecture’s summer school (5-9 June 2023). This workshop introduced architecture students to the context of intertidal areas, as shifting landscapes and sites of complex multispecies interactions. In this workshop, we discussed and experimented with ways in which architecture can…