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Making the stories we have collected into work for the exhibition, I become interested in technologies for recording, translating and constructing stories, after reading an article in Cabinet magazine. (http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/19/hunt.php) Which explores the history of Charles Babbages’ Difference Engine and … Continue reading →

I spent the previous three weeks ‘in residence’ on a market stall in Brixton, offering passers-by “Memory Preservation Salts” which came from a salt pan in the Western Cape region of South Africa, the exact location where my great-grandfather had … Continue reading →

On Saturday I attended Spaces of Memory, an afternoon symposium at the Royal Academy Schools. Iain Borden introduced the afternoon by explaining Lefebvre’s theory of space as a social construct, and suggesting that memory is one way we bring the … Continue reading →

http://www.archive.org/details/WhiteWon1958 A 1950s film about salt production.

This blog will chart my progress as a PhD student in Architectural Design at the Bartlett, University College London. My interest in ‘Salted Earth’ emerged through its possibilities as both a metaphor and material, and as a filter through which … Continue reading →