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A Tale of Two Clouds

Part 2 Dissertation 2024
Phoebe Flatau
Royal College of Art | UK
This dissertation is composed of two clouds. It offers two parallel ideas by taking the form of a business plan for an architectural practice, and a film treatment for an atmospheric production. Together they form one work.

The business plan and film treatment both use speculative design as a means of exploring the possibilities of our future. This is not to say all the scenarios I describe should be realised. Rather, through the process of imagining different worlds, I hope to illuminate the limitations and barriers of our present condition.

By interrogating our disciplinary prejudices and preconceptions, I believe we can critically consider how these might manifest as behaviours, actions, or negligence. And, in doing so, as architects we might then play a more intentional role in the performance of our collective fate.

This act of world building (or unbuilding) uses design as a container, rather than a solution. The dyadic format of this dissertation works in a similar way; a carrier bag of dialogues and narratives, both linguistic and pictorial, fusing or disassociating or dissipating entirely.

I am no ghost writer. This dissertation is my personal attempt to elucidate my practice of architectural design with words.


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Mark Campbell
2024
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