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Lawyers' Edinburgh 1800-2000
No full textLawyers' Edinburgh 1800-2000 is a beginning on the history of leading Edinburgh law firms from 1800-2000, intended to show their long existence, their location in the New Town until very recently, and the identities of their partners.
The database, which also includes photos of locations, is the result of a pilot study. The database has been designed so that it can be extended in its coverage of time, space and persons. For useful background see Hector L MacQueen, 'Lawyers’ Edinburgh 1908-2008', Book of the Old Edinburgh Club, new series volume 8 (2010) pp. 27-53. http://www.oldedinburghclub.org.uk/BOEC/Volume-8.shtm
MOOCs @ Edinburgh 2013: Report #1
No full textA report summarising the experience of the University of Edinburgh of offering our first 6 massive open online courses (MOOCs) in partnership with Courser
Edinburgh Scrapyard
No full textA Scan of a scrapyard in Edinburgh and surrounding houses, 10 Scan locations, captured with a BLK 360, registered using Autodesk Recap Pro, exported to .e57 file format
Edinburgh diagnostic criteria for lobar ICH associated with CAA
No full textSummary of the Edinburgh diagnostic criteria for lobar ICH associated with CAA, illustrative cases, and the diagnostic test accuracy of two cut-pointsPortable Network Graphics, PDF, and PowerPoint image formats for people to use in PowerPoint presentations or manuscripts that describe the Edinburgh diagnostic criteria for lobar intracerebral haemorrhage associated with moderate/severe cerebral amyloid angiopath
Eraser Drawings
No full textThe output consists of a group of fifteen drawings. To make the works, Owen developed and applied a distinctive process involving the careful erasure of ink from found photographic images. Drawing usually involves making marks by adding and accumulating material (graphite, ink, etc.) on a surface. In contrast, Owen\u27s drawings are made purely by erasure; a gradual, irreversible process of removing the ink of the printed image by hand. This series was made using illustrated pages from books on cinema, usually large, ‘coffee table’ publications focusing on a particular genre, director or actor. The books were found and bought online, in bookshops and secondhand shops. In each drawing the central figure, usually an actor or director, is erased. This disables the Focal point of the photograph, bringing a new importance and directing attention to the peripheral details of the image. Drawings from this series have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at:• Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, 2016.• Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India, 2016. And in group exhibitions at:• Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2017. • David Totah Gallery, New York, 2018. • Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 2019.Further dissemination of the research has taken place through public lectures given by Owen at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2016, and GoMA, Glasgow in 2019. The Kochi-Muziris Biennale had an audience of 582,000 visitors. Twelve of the drawings were included in the monograph, Jonathan Owen, published by Ingleby, Edinburgh in 2016
Edinburgh
No full text### DOCOMOMO INTERNATIONAL MASS HOUSING ARCHIVE ###
The provision of healthy modern housing for all was one of the foremost ideals of the Modern Movement, and inspired a vast wave of planning and building across the world during the 20th century. In the last quarter of the century, even as the foundational programmes of Europe and America lost their impetus, the baton was passed on to other countries, especially in eastern Asia, where the narrative of Modern mass housing was reinvigorated for the next century - a unique example of a key Modernist project that actually continues and thrives today, and which thus forms a principal focus of interest for DOCOMOMO – the leading international organisation promoting the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement.
As heritage, the built legacies of this diverse and multi-generational adventure are almost always too controversial to qualify for conservation strategies. Instead, therefore, recording and inventorisation must dominate the heritage interest in this field. In the recognition of that fact, DOCOMOMO’s International Specialist Committee on Urbanism and Landscape, in partnership with the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies at the University of Edinburgh, has launched the International Mass Housing Archive, whose aim is to provide an open-access library of images of significant housing projects in each working-group territory, free of copyright restrictions. These files may be copied, edited and shared on condition the appropriate citation is used, as per the terms of the attached Creative Commons Attribution licence.
### Structure ###
The International Mass Housing Archive is subdivided under geographical headings corresponding to the constituent working groups of DOCOMOMO, and the individual housing projects are searchable under city and project name. Initially, the Image Archive will be managed and augmented centrally by DOCOMOMO and the SCCS, in partnership with University of Edinburgh Information Services, commencing with pilot city surveys sourced from our own photographic records in the first instance.
The archive is related to several existing mass housing documentation initiatives. These include two concerning Britain, ‘Tower Block UK’ and the online version of the 1994 book, Tower Block: http://www.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/ and http://towerblock.org/TowerBlock.pdf; and one concerning Hong Kong: see http://www.hk.towerblock.eca.ed.ac.uk/list-of-estates.In most cases the filename indicates the street and building. Where multiple photographs were taken at the same location, they may have the same filename; they are distinguished by a number in brackets at the end of the filename (the numbers in parentheses were added automatically by the Windows operating system)
Metis : On the Surface
No full textMetis : On the Surface is an exhibition of seven projects that range from installations to large urban restructuring proposals. The exhibition and the projects are by Metis, an atelier for art, architecture and urbanism founded by Mark Dorrian and Adrian Hawker at the University of Edinburgh in 1997. The projects aim to connect architectural research, teaching and practice. As this exhibition attests, the projects research the city and the complex ways in which it is imagined, inhabited, and representationally encoded. The research produces rich, multi-layered outputs that resist immediate consumption and that are instead gradually unfurled over time through interaction with them. The work demonstrates a poetic but critical approach to the city that is sensitive to the city’s cultural memory but is also articulated in relation to its possible futures. Working between two contrasting scales, the exhibition itself constitutes an original research output. The seven projects have been redrawn, crafted, reinterpreted and combined into a complex topographical surface. Visitors entering the exhibition encounter a vast drawing on which they walk, carpeting the floor of the gallery. Through this, an internal terrain is inserted within the display space, which is then inhabited by glass display tables that hold detailed drawings and models. The viewers of the exhibition thus not only see a series of projects, but find themselves – as they travel across scale and space – active participants in a speculative architectural imaginary, one in which the architectural object is always in communication with the broader historical, cultural, material and representational conditions of the city or landscape within which it is positioned. The exhibitions ran from: 10 October – 14 November 2014. Arkitektskolen Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark. 27 March – 6 April 2015. Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art, (ECA), Edinburgh, UK
The Kurds
No full textThe Kurds is a group of six wooden portrait heads of members of the migrant Kurdish community in Edinburgh. The output builds on Dagg’s longstanding practice research into figurative sculpture, in particular techniques and processes of woodcarving, including novel approaches to polychrome. It brings this research expertise to a focused interrogation of the meaning and potential of portrait sculpture with respect to a particular, marginalised community. It investigates how portrait sculpture can meaningfully function as a mode of community engagement and through this foreground broader questions around migration, identity and exclusion.Three of the heads were exhibited in After The Storm, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, April 2017. Two heads were selected for the Society of Portrait Sculptors Annual Exhibition in London: FACE 2019, 3–8 June 2019 in La Galleria Pall Mall, the only forum for contemporary portrait sculpture in the UK. One of the sculptures, The Poser, was the only sculpture to be selected from over 700 entries for the Scottish Portrait Awards, which was held at Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh, 26 October – 1 December 2018, and Glasgow Arts Club,Glasgow, 21 January – 9 February 2019. The Poser was shortlisted as one of six finalists by a distinguished judging panel (including the artist John Byrne, and deputy director and chief curator of the Scottish Portrait Gallery, Imogen Gibbons) and was awarded the Glasgow Arts Club Award for Fine Art. The Matriarch, won runner-up in the Heatherley School of Fine Art Prize for the best 3D human portrait, June 2019.
Edinburgh Historic Walks: A Summary of Hidden Histories
No full textEdinburgh Historic Walks: A Summary of Hidden Histories is the result of months of student-staff collaborative research and community engagement. It summarises the histories explored in the funded project Edinburgh Historic Walks, created to challenge the historical neglect of marginalised communities in Edinburgh. Each chapter in the booklet explores a different topic, containing four to five locations along a 30-minute walking route. Each location is directly related to an aspect of marginalised history, involving women, people of colour, LGBTQ+, and other diverse communities.
These self-led walking routes enable the recovery and recognition of lost narratives in Edinburgh’s history, connecting people with the city and joining the dots between untold stories. Included are tales of inequality and injustice, societal change and revolutionary acts – such as the suffragette bombing of the Royal Observatory. Showcasing this heritage is a vital step forward in building a more inclusive historical picture and modern-day society. We hope this book ensures the histories are open, tangible, and accessible to a wide audience, and helps bring some of these pioneering Edinburgh individuals back into the public conscious, and into the history books
55 George Square during Edinburgh Festival
No full textA Scan of 55 George Square during Edinburgh Festival, 8 Scan locations, captured with a BLK 360, registered using Autodesk Recap Pro, exported to .e57 file format. At the time of scanning this building was the location for The College Office for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS)
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