The Art of Design: from philosphy to practice

Kathryn Jane Moore

This exposition sets out evidence of the research undertaken over the last decade to understand the implications beyond the academy of the new paradigm presented in ‘Overlooking The Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design’ (2010), leading to ‘Towards New Research Methodologies in Design: Shifting Inquiry Away from the Unequivocal Towards the Ambiguous’ (2018). The exposition shows the process of developing ‘The Art of Design’ at a regional scale through a number of sequential case studies. Requiring investigative and analytical drawing from a position of knowledge and the reimagining and re-presenting of places in order to rekindle and reinvent the connection between communities and the space they inhabit, recognising the pride people take in that space, its cultural identity, be it urban, suburban or rural, is very much a modern, contemporary view of how our landscapes work. The ideas expressed in the visual narratives have engaged a wide range of decision makers and are shifting perceptions, planning policy and practices at a local, national and international level. The student work exhibited in 2019 (BCU) explored the spatial implications of the ethos of the West Midlands National Park focused on specific locations and was vital in persuading key regional and national stakeholders of the significance of this new approach. This predominantly visual exposition presents the transformative practice-based research process manifest as visual artefacts from philosophy to practice interrogating the art of design.

Details of the HS2LV drawing including central park as the connector to all quarters of the city.

HS2 A Catalyst for Transformation: initial concept drawing for the Tame and Blythe Valleys alongside HS2 (2011)

Changing perceptions: the sailing lake and reservoir proposed at the Tame Valley as it leaves Birmingham

Illustrations of the replenished Blythe Valley and edge of the City, demarcated by wind turbines

Clarified drawings to discuss with the Secretary of State for Transport (2013)

Refinement of the proposal (2012)

Envisioning a different approach: a holistic and integrated proposal for the Tame Valley, instigated by the arrival of HS2 (2011)

FROM PHILOSOPHY TO PRACTICE

THE ART

OF DESIGN

The Tame Valley: the social, environmental, educational and employment stress created by the severance of the city by the infrastructure of road and rail.

Can we afford to continue in this way? (2012)

1. WEST MIDLANDS NATIONAL PARK ORIGINALS

2. WEST MIDLANDS NATIONAL PARK PROJECT 1: CITY-CENTRE-PARKS, RING-PARKS, FRINGE-PARKS, RIVERS AND CANALS

3. WEST MIDLANDS NATIONAL PARK PROSPECTUS & CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

4. WEST MIDLANDS NATIONAL PARK EXHIBITION

5. TAME VALLEY LANDSCAPE VISION

6. HS2 CURZON STREET CITY CENTRE PARK PROPOSAL

7. HS2 LANDSCAPE VISION

8. THURROCK LANDSCAPE VISION

9. BLACK COUNTRY URBAN PARK

10. BCU MA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE WEST MIDLANDS NATIONAL PARK STUDENT WORK

HS2 Landscape Vision, Moore and Cureton, Panel exhibited at the Festival of the Future City, Foresight in London, York, Bristol & Kiev as part of the Future Cities exhibition (2015)

HS2: Finding the Blythe and Tame Valley and the topography of the conurbation. “Are you sure that valley still exists?” (2011)

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on request from Kathryn Moore

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