Category Archives: Free City Guide

PROJECT PROFILE: Free City Guide

COLLABORATORS: Keeley Travel STUDENT GROUPS: BA (Hons) Architecture, MArch Architecture, BA (Hons) English PROJECT TYPE: Transdisciplinary practice, creative writing. Free City explores the overlooked city spaces remaining at the edges of our consciousness both as city dwellers and designers. They

PROJECT PROFILE: Free City Guide

COLLABORATORS: Keeley Travel STUDENT GROUPS: BA (Hons) Architecture, MArch Architecture, BA (Hons) English PROJECT TYPE: Transdisciplinary practice, creative writing. Free City explores the overlooked city spaces remaining at the edges of our consciousness both as city dwellers and designers. They

Canal Companion

Our guide to the canal aimed to express the theme of Duality that had been the focus of our poetry and film collaboration. ‘A Companion for the Canal’ is a guide to the canal using visual and poetic explorations we

Canal Companion

Our guide to the canal aimed to express the theme of Duality that had been the focus of our poetry and film collaboration. ‘A Companion for the Canal’ is a guide to the canal using visual and poetic explorations we

Final video

The good air Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton

Final video

The good air Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton

Marco’s journey

Map showing marco’s journey. Dave baldock, stefan fratila, mariam mann, liam witham

Marco’s journey

Map showing marco’s journey. Dave baldock, stefan fratila, mariam mann, liam witham

Final Preparations – process development

While preparing for the presentation, we have compiled a series of leaflets to explain our development process and linguistic explorations. As a brief overview, we have gathered our own different perspectives of the canal of Birmingham as a Great Beast,

Final Preparations – process development

While preparing for the presentation, we have compiled a series of leaflets to explain our development process and linguistic explorations. As a brief overview, we have gathered our own different perspectives of the canal of Birmingham as a Great Beast,

Nature within the canal

Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton  

Nature within the canal

Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton  

Pip Piper film making workshop

Free city- Pip piper workshop On a sunny afternoon we had an amazing opportunity to have a film workshop with pip piper. We learnt skills and put together a short film of how the canal sits within the city, taking

Pip Piper film making workshop

Free city- Pip piper workshop On a sunny afternoon we had an amazing opportunity to have a film workshop with pip piper. We learnt skills and put together a short film of how the canal sits within the city, taking

Storyboard

From this session we took extracts from the Marcovaldo text and created a story board     Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton  

Storyboard

From this session we took extracts from the Marcovaldo text and created a story board     Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton  

Poetry reading- Liz Berry

We had a session where we looked into bilingual poetry and read various glaswegian poems. Liz Berry who has wrote many poems about the black country did a reading of her poems. We all found this a very valuable experience and

Poetry reading- Liz Berry

We had a session where we looked into bilingual poetry and read various glaswegian poems. Liz Berry who has wrote many poems about the black country did a reading of her poems. We all found this a very valuable experience and

Brain storming

We brain stormed various ideas in order to structure our video the following diagrams shows the ideas and discussions from our session       Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton

Brain storming

We brain stormed various ideas in order to structure our video the following diagrams shows the ideas and discussions from our session       Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton

Marcovaldo

Using the text Marcovaldo we split the text into various sections and used this as a basis for our short film.   Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton  

Marcovaldo

Using the text Marcovaldo we split the text into various sections and used this as a basis for our short film.   Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton  

Marcovaldo

Using the text Marcovaldo we split the text into various sections and used this as a basis for our short film.       Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton  

Marcovaldo

Using the text Marcovaldo we split the text into various sections and used this as a basis for our short film.       Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton  

Traces

Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton

Traces

Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton

Free city poetry – Collapsed veins

This poem shows the darker side of the canal it depicts a drug addict who would inhabit the hidden spaces within the canal. Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton

Free city poetry – Collapsed veins

This poem shows the darker side of the canal it depicts a drug addict who would inhabit the hidden spaces within the canal. Dave Baldock, Mariam Mann, Stefan Fratila, Liam Witham, Afiyha Saleem, Becky Horton