| Project | Theme | Tags | Status | Date | Selected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CS50 | Studies | computing, problem-solving, formal course | Live | Apr 26 | Yes |
| Road Trip Radar | Tools | web app, APIs, travel | Live | Mar 26 | Yes |
| Wine Cellar Monitor | Builds | sensors, microcontrollers, food & drink | In Progress | Jun 25 | Yes |
| Bird Box | Nature | woodwork, wildlife, outdoors | Live | Mar 25 | Yes |
| Macroeconomist's Holiday Planner | Tools | behavioural finance, humour, web app | Live | Dec 24 | Yes |
| Underworld Professionals | Collections | film, noir, curation | Live | Oct 24 | Yes |
| Stockholm Transport Tool | Tools | APIs, travel, real-time data | Live | Aug 24 | Yes |
| Sculptural Barometer | Builds | sculpture, philosophy, weather | Exploring | Next | Yes |
| Raver Headwear | Builds | wearable electrics, creatures of the deep, cyberpunk | Exploring | Next | Yes |
| Sidecars | Collections | cocktails, discovery, perfect partners | Live | Feb 26 | No |
| Capsule Wardrobe | Collections | menswear, AI-assisted, planning | In Progress | Apr 25 | No |
| Blackcurrant Bush | Nature | growing, edible plants, seasonal | Live | Apr 25 | No |
| Interests (personal webpage) | Studies | web, writing, self-reflection | Live | Mar 25 | No |
| Training Schedule | Tools | fitness, planning, routine | Live | Jan 25 | No |
| Zambretti Weather Forecaster | Builds | Raspberry Pi, weather, analogue systems | In Progress | May 25 | Maybe |
| Race Day | Play | playful, mechanical, systems | Exploring | — | — |
| Leith School of Art | Studies | printmaking, art, creativity | Exploring | — | — |
| Science of Well-Being | Studies | psychology, habits, well-being | Exploring | — | — |
| Alligator Candle | Builds | craft, product design, nature-inspired | Exploring | — | — |
| Barcode Mutants | Play | mobile, game design, experimental | Exploring | — | — |
| Off-grid Weather Scout | Nature | sensors, outdoors, installation | Exploring | — | — |
| Starburst Trading Game | Play | social, systems, game design | Exploring | — | — |
| Many Thanks! | Tools | app, mindfulness, gratitude | Exploring | — | — |
| Global Markets Trend & Vol | Tools | web app, finance, market regime ID | Exploring | — | — |
| Title | Author | Guiding question / concept | Theme | Form |
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| Tier One — Ontology (foundational practice) — How are things made? | ||||
| 1.1 The Craftsman | Richard Sennett | Making is a form of thinking: skill, repetition and attention allow the hand to educate the mind. | Intention | Book |
| 1.2 Making | Tim Ingold | Objects emerge through collaboration with materials rather than the imposition of preconceived form. | Process | Book |
| 1.3 The Shape of Time | George Kubler | Every object belongs to a longer historical sequence of problems, adaptations and inherited forms. | History | Book |
| 1.4 On Longing | Susan Stewart | Objects accumulate memory, desire and meaning beyond their immediate function or utility. | Attachment | Book |
| 1.5 Vibrant Matter | Jane Bennett | Materials possess their own agency and participate in shaping outcomes alongside human intention. | Agency | Book |
| Tier Two — Legibility (permission, opposition, articulation) — Why are these things allowed to be called sculpture? | ||||
| 2.1 Sculpture in the Expanded Field | Rosalind E. Krauss | Sculpture extends beyond monuments into a broader territory between architecture, landscape and object. | Permission | Essay |
| 2.2 Passages in Modern Sculpture | Rosalind E. Krauss | Modern sculpture's evolution explains how contemporary object practices became possible. | History | Book |
| 2.3 Art and Objecthood | Michael Fried | An essential counter-argument that exposes tensions between art, use, presence and lived experience. | Opposition | Essay |
| 2.4 The Poetics of Space | Gaston Bachelard | Intimate spaces shape our emotional relationship to objects, containers and acts of dwelling. | Domesticity | Book |
| 2.5 One Place After Another | Miwon Kwon | Site is not merely location but a network of social, cultural and institutional relationships. | Situatedness | Book |
| Tier Three — Context (institution, reception, historical positioning) — What systems receive and interpret them? | ||||
| 3.1 Ways of Seeing | John Berger | The meaning of objects is constructed by culture, power and the conditions under which they are seen. | Vision | Book |
| 3.2 Inside the White Cube | Brian O'Doherty | Exhibition spaces are never neutral; they actively shape how objects are understood. | Institution | Book |
| 3.3 Relational Aesthetics | Nicolas Bourriaud | Art can be understood as a framework for social interaction rather than a discrete object. | Participation | Book |
| 3.4 The Return of the Real | Hal Foster | Contemporary practices are situated within longer histories of repetition, critique and return. | Historicisation | Book |
| Tier Four — Accountability (material reality) — How do they survive being used by other people? | ||||
| 4.1 The Design of Everyday Things | Don Norman | Good objects communicate their use intuitively and accommodate the realities of human behaviour. | Affordance | Book |
| 4.2 How Buildings Learn | Stewart Brand | Objects and environments acquire meaning through adaptation, maintenance and continual change over time. | Repair | Book |
| 4.3 The Thoughtful Making of Spaces | Adam Thorpe | Making responsibly requires attention to human experience, sustainability and long-term care. | Care | Book |
| 4.4 The Nature and Art of Workmanship | David Pye | Quality emerges from the relationship between precision, risk, judgement and the maker's skill. | Durability | Book |
| 4.5 The Social Life of Things | Arjun Appadurai | Objects continue to change meaning as they circulate through different social contexts. | Consequence | Book |
| Tier Five — Practice (artistic process, reflection, evolution) — How do established sculptors think and work? | ||||
| 5.1 Gravity and Grace | Antony Gormley & Martin Gayford | Sculpture made from the body rather than of it collapses the distance between maker, material and subject. | Embodiment | Conversation |
| 5.2 Barbara Hepworth: A Pictorial Autobiography | Barbara Hepworth | Landscape and place are not backdrop but source material — absorbed into form through sustained inhabitation. | Environment | Autobiography |
| 5.3 Henry Moore on Sculpture | Henry Moore, ed. Philip James | Sculptural truth is found in natural form — its rhythms, tensions and masses provide a grammar prior to style. | Organic form | Essays |
| 5.4 Brancusi | Friedrich Teja Bach | Radical reduction is not simplification but intensification — each removal concentrates rather than diminishes meaning. | Essentialisation | Monograph |
| 5.5 Donald Judd: Complete Writings | Donald Judd | A sculpture is a specific object in actual space — it neither represents nor refers, but simply is what it is. | Specificity | Writings |
| 5.6 Eva Hesse | Lucy Lippard | Process, impermanence and bodily vulnerability can be the primary content of a work rather than its incidental condition. | Materiality | Monograph |
| 5.7 A Potter's Book | Bernard Leach | The vessel is not a lesser form of sculpture but a testing ground where utility and beauty make competing demands on the maker. | Function | Manual |
| 5.8 Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father | Louise Bourgeois | Psychological material — memory, fear, desire — can be metabolised directly into form without being illustrated or explained. | Memory | Writings |
| 5.9 Writings, Interviews | Richard Serra | Space is not the setting for sculpture but its material — weight, scale and site-specificity are the work's primary arguments. | Scale | Interviews |
| 5.10 The Infinite Line | Richard Long | Walking, marking and the trace of physical passage through landscape constitute a sculptural act without object or permanence. | Landscape | Artist book |
| Teardrop one arm bandit toaster | Marc Newson aluminium construction? |
| Radio anglepoise | Enriching light waves with soundwaves with a bluetooth loudspeaker and a thick ring LED lamp |
| Pyramid bedframe | Wooden four-poster bed for a room with high ceilings |
| A-level cathedral shell structure | The result of circa 80 developmental charcoal sketches |
| Long exposure photography with light bulbs | Fishing rods and reflections from very early morning bodies of water |
| Architectural bird boxes | Salvage driven constellations... And more natural exteriors, with internals designed for birds rather than humans |
| Egg Toast Coffee — product design | Inspired by Bialetti, a device for synchronised breakfast production. Possibly an electric steamer, V60 and toaster with solar? |
| Egg Toast Coffee — sculpture | Exploring the shape and movements of the cooking and brewing processes |
| Past Participle |
Installation and slow motion video of a handful of confetti being thrown through a large ring, behind which are smaller rings, p... A large arrowed x and y axis on the floor echoes a compass and captures the coordinates of some of the pieces, with the final... Three different throws with three different colours, representing hopes, loves and losses |
| One Wheel Wheely | Cover it… and make a poster |
| Anvil combine | 1) Anvils as balloons, 2) or, tethered to a yoke and counterbalanced with a computer mouse in tension in Calder esque fashion |
| Playing with scale | Micro towering over Macro, Panamarenko shapes and proportions |
| Curvature and organic shapes | As per sketches with charcoal smudging… Process/tools influencing outcome |
| Redundant heterogeneity |
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| Requisite variety |
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| A pedagogic sequence of PPE |
Intuition and entry-level frameworks (fairness, incentives, inequality)
First serious normative ideas (liberty, society, morality)
Classical political philosophy (state, rights, legitimacy)
System-building modern theory (conflict of ideologies)
Analytical and theoretical consolidation (welfare, macro, behavioural limits)
Contemporary perspectives (inequality, democratic distortion, value extraction)
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