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Meta + Assessment, 06/04/2017
How do we assess work today? What process do we go through in grading a piece of design, writing or art? And how do we assess this process of assessment in arts institutions itself? Assisting UAL Graphic Design course director Tracey Waller with her scholarship research The Ideal Press was commissioned to produce an 'artefact' responding to her research topic. ¶
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Model and Countermodel, 12/04/2017
Model and Countermodel is a reader of collected texts about practitioners who have proposed risky yet rigorous alternatives to conventional wisdom across art, design and architecture including exemplary attitudes, frameworks, methodologies and methods. ¶
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Excerpt from deathby.ppt, 04/04/2017
PowerPoint, in one way or another, directly influences the lives of almost everybody who lives and works in the ‘West’. Anyone who is caught up in the circuits of an increasingly global, post-Fordist system of goods and capital will have suffered through a terrible PowerPoint or delivered one. It has become something of a rite of passage. ¶
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Triple Wrecking Ball, 29/04/2017
An investigation in to Pre-Mendeleevian substances, molecular consciousness and geophinance; an attack on Kitsch-marxist pessimism and situationist methodologies; a proposal for derivatives trading along anti-social lines. ¶
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Deathby.ppt, 12/04/2017
PowerPoint, in one way or another, directly influences the lives of almost everybody who lives and works in the ‘West’. Anyone who is caught up in the circuits of an increasingly global, post-Fordist system of goods and capital will have suffered through a terrible PowerPoint or delivered one. It has become something of a rite of passage. ¶
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The Four Hour Academy Prospectus, 20/04/2017
The Four Hour Academy an experimental institute of education which aims to act as a critique of current systems of education and a vehicle to propose radical new forms that these systems could take (however naive they may be). This book acts as a site on which an assortment of sources, images and texts come together to detail this experimental educational institution. ¶
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The Ideal Cook, 08/04/2017
Looking at the work, writing and visual language of Nigella Lawson — who is often considered, somewhat satirically, to be something of an ‘Ideal Cook’ — Pilston explores our entanglement with an emerging consumer culture; one that feeds into ‘#foodporn’ Instagram posts and ‘100 mile diets.’ ¶