542 research outputs found
Alternate Languages: Confronting Boundaries. Royal Academy of Arts:Seeking Refuge: Views of Displacement
No full textAlternate Languages: Confronting Boundaries invites a critique of our relationship with one another and with our spaces. In a day of free immersive spatial activations, artworks, performances, workshops and discussions in the Royal Academy, we explore isolation and connection, exclusion and generosity, and ask what unites us and divides us.As disenchantment permeates many aspects of society and polarisation increases, we must transcend difference, overcome prejudices, find ways to understand and connect with one another.Within this context Robert Mull co-curated and chaired:Seeking Refuge: Views of Displacement This discussion asks how we seek refuge with and from one another; how displacement can allow us to better understand other communities; what we can learn from stories about generations of lives lived on the road; and what the implications of movement and migration are for public space, art, design and architecture. Join Clod Ensemble’s artistic director Suzy Willson, Thomas McCarthy (Irish Traveller Singer and Activist), David Cotterrell (Installation artist), and chair Robert Mull (University of Brighton)
Sheds - Palaces of Nothing:Hauser and Wirth Gallery, Bruton
No full textThe project started with an invitation to Robert Mull and Alexander Brodsky to see what they would make of ‘sheds’ within the confines of the Drawing Matter collections. Markus Lähteenmäki proposed the subtitle, ‘Palaces of Nothing’, and its point of departure. Over an intense two days the guest curators followed unexpected directions in their poetic and pragmatic pursuit of this least – or most – architectural object. An exhibition of their selected drawings, opened at the Hauser & Wirth Maltings Gallery on October 9th 2016
The Calais Jungle & The Blue House:Southbank Centre, London
No full textThe refugee settlement in Calais known as the Jungle is a small town. Like all towns it captures the needs, culture and hopes of its residents. It has a high street, districts, shops, churches, mosques, schools, a radio station, a theatre, an art school, a library, a hammam, youth centres and much more.Whilst the jungle is the result of great suffering it is also a place of optimism and resilience where the humanity of its residents and those who support them is built into its organisation and fabric. At its best the Jungle reminds us how good cities are formed and grow and at its worst how easy it is to destroy them.This exhibition tries to capture that humanity and provides the context for the Blue House built by the artist Alpha Diagne also here as part of the Festival of Love. The Blue House became a symbol of the Jungle and the centre of gravity for art and culture. The Blue House was rescued just before the brutal demolition of the southern part of the Jungle in February 2016Curated by Professor Robert Mull supported by Publica, The Worldwide Tribe, Grainne Hassett Cindy Palmano, Mark Pearce and the AF Volunteers.<br/
The forgotten first: John MacCormick's 'Dùn-Àluinn'
No full textThe first Gaelic novel, John MacCormick's Dùn-Àluinn, no an t-Oighre 'na Dhìobarach, was serialised in the People's Journal in 1910 before being published in its entirety in 1912. Within a year of the publication of Dùn-Àluinn as a novel the second Gaelic novel, Angus Robertson's An t-Ogha Mòr, appeared in print, underlining the renaissance which Gaelic literature was experiencing. Both novels, while remarked upon by contemporaries and by general studies of Gaelic literature, have been all but ignored to date, with no criticism or analysis of either having been published. The main aim of this article is to offer some general comments about MacCormick's Dùn-Àluinn and thus to open up both the novel and indeed other early twentieth-century Gaelic writers and their work to further scrutiny. Consideration will be given to the author himself, the contemporary Gaelic literary scene and finally some of the more interesting aspects of the novel itself
Jacksonville (Texas), men collect samples of ore mine
No full textNorth of Jacksonville, Texas. 3 March 47. 4 miles NW. 1533-M forest mull & 100m. General of ore ""Mine"". 8 1/50 G1947-03-03GrayscalePendleton nitrate negative, Box 235 of 38
Construction of Culture: Robert Burns' Contributions to Scottish National Identity
No full textIn the popular imagination, Scottish culture is frequently reduced to haggis, kilts, and bagpipes, and Scotland itself is often mistakenly viewed politically as just an extension or territory of England. After spending three months in Edinburgh on a CU study abroad program, I left with a new appreciation for Scotland and its people. Though it is only a small nation, Scotland has a distinct culture that is at times misunderstood both within the United Kingdom and abroad. With this in mind, I decided to look more closely at Scottish identity and its formation over several centuries. Robert Burns is one of the best-known figures in Scottish history, so in this thesis I focus on his poetry and examine his contributions to Scottish culture in a sociohistorical context. With reference to theories of nationalism, cultural identity, and postcolonialism, I study the manner in which Burns uses his poetry to react against the Anglicization of Scotland that had occurred in the decades after the Union of 1707. He not only highlights the problems of the post-Union shift in culture, but also endeavors to disrupt England‘s ongoing influence on Scotland. Burns then further seeks to reconstruct a unique Scottish identity through his romantic poetry. Burns‘ influence has survived through generations and, as I will show, is reflected today in the current debate concerning Scottish independence from England. It is clear that Robert Burns‘ efforts to construct a unique Scottish culture have endured and will continue to be influential for Scotland as the independence movement comes to the political forefront
The Architecture of Displacement
No full textThe Architecture of Displacement is a multi-component output comprising a set of masterplans, informal architectural designs and collaboratively built structures, co-designed with refugee communities, volunteers and students, realised primarily in Basmane in the city of Izmir, Turkey; informal farm camps around Torbali, Izmir Province; and Pikpa and Moria Camps, Lesvos, Greece. The designs and structures both embody and represent new forms of understanding of refugee place-making practices, cultural identities and appropriate forms of architectural response. The output constitutes an alternative form of architectural and urban practice that directly challenges the practices deployed by larger NGOs and state actors, which involve externally imposed architectural solutions and structures that take little account of refugee identities and cultures. The research asks questions about how displaced populations establish and maintain their identity whilst in transit. Working directly with refugee communities, and the architects and architectural students of the Global Free Unit, of which he was a founder, Mull uses online and face to face participatory processes and methods including co-designed drawing, model making, design development and master planning. Practice-based approaches and participatory methods are used to generate and communicate distinct new insights and knowledge into the ways displaced people use architectural and cultural strategies to maintain their culture and wellbeing in informal camps and host communities within the global refugee crisis. The insights and knowledges that have arisen from the research have been further developed through work in a range of other settings and shared in publications and through Mull’s curation of and contributions to exhibitions and events including the 2016 Papers Exhibition, Barbican, London, the 2016 Festival of Love, South Bank, London, the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale and the Korean Pavilion at the delayed 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale
Construction of Culture: Robert Burns' Contributions to Scottish National Identity
No full textIn the popular imagination, Scottish culture is frequently reduced to haggis, kilts, and bagpipes, and Scotland itself is often mistakenly viewed politically as just an extension or territory of England. After spending three months in Edinburgh on a CU study abroad program, I left with a new appreciation for Scotland and its people. Though it is only a small nation, Scotland has a distinct culture that is at times misunderstood both within the United Kingdom and abroad. With this in mind, I decided to look more closely at Scottish identity and its formation over several centuries. Robert Burns is one of the best-known figures in Scottish history, so in this thesis I focus on his poetry and examine his contributions to Scottish culture in a sociohistorical context. With reference to theories of nationalism, cultural identity, and postcolonialism, I study the manner in which Burns uses his poetry to react against the Anglicization of Scotland that had occurred in the decades after the Union of 1707. He not only highlights the problems of the post-Union shift in culture, but also endeavors to disrupt England‘s ongoing influence on Scotland. Burns then further seeks to reconstruct a unique Scottish identity through his romantic poetry. Burns‘ influence has survived through generations and, as I will show, is reflected today in the current debate concerning Scottish independence from England. It is clear that Robert Burns‘ efforts to construct a unique Scottish culture have endured and will continue to be influential for Scotland as the independence movement comes to the political forefront
Exclusion area radiation release during the MIT reactor design basis accident
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1983.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND SCIENCEIncludes bibliographical references.by Robert Forrest Mull.M.S
Glochidion ferdinandi (Mull. Arg) F.M. Bailey, family Euphorbiaceae, ca. 1875 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on identification by botanist.; Part of the: R.D. FitzGerald collection, 1850-1880.; Plants is also known as the Cheese tree, Button wood and Jow-war.; Condition: Spotting.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an6242909
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