Page in construction Concept – [Link] Confronting Classics A field of projects exploring discovery, mark making, art, interpretation, ambiguity, remnants, monuments, reading signs, shadows, figuration, figures in a landscape, voice, memory, death and mortality. cultivation (Arcadia – a garden) remains – shadows – transformations – writing/text/inscription/epigraphy – entropy and negative entropy – energy translations –…
We are moving on with our JANUS research initiative (core team Victor Taratukhin, Natalia Pulyavina, myself) – [Link]. Our case is that being mindful of the past, hindsight, is essential to being able to act for the future. Looking back, researching and exploring, that we might be better prepared for uncertain futures. JANUS – archaeological…
Studio Michael Shanks It is May 2020 as I write this. I finished my first research paper in 1980. Chris Tilley and I ran some heavy duty statistical tests on human remains from megalithic tombs in Sweden and England and established that these weren’t regular burials. Body parts were missing. There was a preference for…
Solon the Athenian was renowned for his wisdom. Having set his city to rights with revolutionary new legislation, he set out on a ten year journey, that his constitution might take effect, and that he might find out about the world. In his travels Solon came to the court of Croesus, the most wealthy…
In the early 90s I started working with Mike Pearson*, performance artist, founder and artistic director, with Cliff McLucas, of theatre company Brith Gof. Our common interests: forms of (re)collection, the gatherings of memory practices; and site and locale – where different events and times endure and come together in the material forms of inhabited…
A research focus at Stanford combining Design Thinking and Strategic Foresight– foresight.stanford.edu Looking ahead with the benefits of hindsight and insight into our current condition, that we might plan and implement innovation and change to get us where we want to be. Our vision is to be the world’s premier program committed to researching, understanding,…
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