Come to Grow between 10am-2pm on Friday 28 April to meet architectural researcher Leah Dinning as she joins us for her day residency showcasing her Practice in Progress from her PhD at the University of Plymouth exploring the liminal nature of public space in the city. Her work will be assembled as a blend of mix-media representational methods included augmented reality and cast artefacts, aiming to originate her own method of mapping the streetscape, diving into the tactile qualities of our lived spaces.

PRACTICE IN PROGRESS

This body of work branches from Leah’s background in spatial and architectural design in her Master’s studies. The work presented in the exhibition space will respond to the transient nature of the adjacent external public corridor to the Grow Plymouth’s main space, taking advantage of this opportunity to represent observed activity and movement within and through a public space that is often overlooked.

THESIS ABTRACT

‘The image of the city is not an isolated one, rather it is an atlas; a layering of representations intertwined today by emerging boundaries affording for liminal conditions and a lack of legibility in our lived public urban spaces.

Through mapping, this research aims to originate a methodological framework for understanding and identifying qualities and perceptions of liminality using a wider scope of scales in operation within urban spaces by exploring and testing methods found within the multi-disciplinary field of mapping and architectural discourse. This involves an examination of the spectrum of qualitative to quantitative research practices communicating the intangible,sensorial, and emotional to the tangible, physical, and formal conditions of place through creative representation.

This research project aims to contribute to spatial and architectural practice by demonstrating how mapping can be used as a representative tool, and how we can further understand and visualise the emerging transient senseof place in the city.’

Leah will be present in the space to discuss the body of work, and use the residency as a point of reflection going forward into other spaces.

PART OF A YEAR-LONG SERIES OF RESIDENCIES AND CULTURAL EVENTS
This event is part of a year-long series of pop-up residencies and cultural events working with partners to experiment and explore the building, its surroundings, heritage and looks to the future in terms of sustainability, inclusion, food and drink, grassroots arts, music and culture.  The top floors have recently been converted into studios, which are now creative home to painters, audio artists, printmakers, installation and socially engaged artists.