Design Ecologies Symposium: the ill defined niche Royal College of Art, London 25th November 2011 ‘The talk was one of several (Shaun Murray, Nic Clear, Donald Smith, Chris Speed) that collectively articulated instability of practice or representation in a context of complexity and ungrounded disciplines of cultural production and technological duration. Slippages of meaning, deluges of technological complexity and shifting ecologies of value, relevance and engagement accumulate to reveal the “Ill Defined Niche” of contemporary practice. However, this “ill definition” is not a negative insecurity, but rather can be seen as a positive catalyst of complex and contingent configurations of practising. Practices that form projections of work that confront an absence of conventional locations of “meaning” and escape the artificial security of convention and instead expose work to the mess and complexity of the real.’ Felix Robbins (an architectural project) Shaun Murray, November 2011
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Design Ecologies Symposium: the ill defined niche Royal College of Art, London 25th November 2011 ‘The talk was one of several (Shaun Murray, Nic Clear, Donald Smith, Chris Speed) that collectively articulated instability of practice or representation in a context of complexity and ungrounded disciplines of cultural production and technological duration. Slippages of meaning, deluges of technological complexity and shifting ecologies of value, relevance and engagement accumulate to reveal the “Ill Defined Niche” of contemporary practice. However, this “ill definition” is not a negative insecurity, but rather can be seen as a positive catalyst of complex and contingent configurations of practising. Practices that form projections of work that confront an absence of conventional locations of “meaning” and escape the artificial security of convention and instead expose work to the mess and complexity of the real.’ Felix Robbins (an architectural project) Shaun Murray, November 2011
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Design Ecologies Symposium: the ill defined niche Royal College of Art, London 25th November 2011 ‘The talk was one of several (Shaun Murray, Nic Clear, Donald Smith, Chris Speed) that collectively articulated instability of practice or representation in a context of complexity and ungrounded disciplines of cultural production and technological duration. Slippages of meaning, deluges of technological complexity and shifting ecologies of value, relevance and engagement accumulate to reveal the “Ill Defined Niche” of contemporary practice. However, this “ill definition” is not a negative insecurity, but rather can be seen as a positive catalyst of complex and contingent configurations of practising. Practices that form projections of work that confront an absence of conventional locations of “meaning” and escape the artificial security of convention and instead expose work to the mess and complexity of the real.’ Felix Robbins (an architectural project) Shaun Murray, November 2011
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Design Ecologies Symposium: the ill defined niche Royal College of Art, London 25th November 2011 ‘The talk was one of several (Shaun Murray, Nic Clear, Donald Smith, Chris Speed) that collectively articulated instability of practice or representation in a context of complexity and ungrounded disciplines of cultural production and technological duration. Slippages of meaning, deluges of technological complexity and shifting ecologies of value, relevance and engagement accumulate to reveal the “Ill Defined Niche” of contemporary practice. However, this “ill definition” is not a negative insecurity, but rather can be seen as a positive catalyst of complex and contingent configurations of practising. Practices that form projections of work that confront an absence of conventional locations of “meaning” and escape the artificial security of convention and instead expose work to the mess and complexity of the real.’ Felix Robbins (an architectural project) Shaun Murray, November 2011
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Design Ecologies Symposium: the ill defined niche Royal College of Art, London 25th November 2011 ‘The talk was one of several (Shaun Murray, Nic Clear, Donald Smith, Chris Speed) that collectively articulated instability of practice or representation in a context of complexity and ungrounded disciplines of cultural production and technological duration. Slippages of meaning, deluges of technological complexity and shifting ecologies of value, relevance and engagement accumulate to reveal the “Ill Defined Niche” of contemporary practice. However, this “ill definition” is not a negative insecurity, but rather can be seen as a positive catalyst of complex and contingent configurations of practising. Practices that form projections of work that confront an absence of conventional locations of “meaning” and escape the artificial security of convention and instead expose work to the mess and complexity of the real.’ Felix Robbins (an architectural project) Shaun Murray, November 2011
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Design Ecologies Symposium: the ill defined niche Royal College of Art, London 25th November 2011 ‘The talk was one of several (Shaun Murray, Nic Clear, Donald Smith, Chris Speed) that collectively articulated instability of practice or representation in a context of complexity and ungrounded disciplines of cultural production and technological duration. Slippages of meaning, deluges of technological complexity and shifting ecologies of value, relevance and engagement accumulate to reveal the “Ill Defined Niche” of contemporary practice. However, this “ill definition” is not a negative insecurity, but rather can be seen as a positive catalyst of complex and contingent configurations of practising. Practices that form projections of work that confront an absence of conventional locations of “meaning” and escape the artificial security of convention and instead expose work to the mess and complexity of the real.’ Felix Robbins (an architectural project) Shaun Murray, November 2011
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Design Ecologies Symposium: the ill defined niche Royal College of Art, London 25th November 2011 ‘The talk was one of several (Shaun Murray, Nic Clear, Donald Smith, Chris Speed) that collectively articulated instability of practice or representation in a context of complexity and ungrounded disciplines of cultural production and technological duration. Slippages of meaning, deluges of technological complexity and shifting ecologies of value, relevance and engagement accumulate to reveal the “Ill Defined Niche” of contemporary practice. However, this “ill definition” is not a negative insecurity, but rather can be seen as a positive catalyst of complex and contingent configurations of practising. Practices that form projections of work that confront an absence of conventional locations of “meaning” and escape the artificial security of convention and instead expose work to the mess and complexity of the real.’ Felix Robbins (an architectural project) Shaun Murray, November 2011
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Design Ecologies Symposium: the ill defined niche Royal College of Art, London 25th November 2011 ‘The talk was one of several (Shaun Murray, Nic Clear, Donald Smith, Chris Speed) that collectively articulated instability of practice or representation in a context of complexity and ungrounded disciplines of cultural production and technological duration. Slippages of meaning, deluges of technological complexity and shifting ecologies of value, relevance and engagement accumulate to reveal the “Ill Defined Niche” of contemporary practice. However, this “ill definition” is not a negative insecurity, but rather can be seen as a positive catalyst of complex and contingent configurations of practising. Practices that form projections of work that confront an absence of conventional locations of “meaning” and escape the artificial security of convention and instead expose work to the mess and complexity of the real.’ Felix Robbins (an architectural project) Shaun Murray, November 2011
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Design Ecologies Symposium: the ill defined niche Royal College of Art, London 25th November 2011 ‘The talk was one of several (Shaun Murray, Nic Clear, Donald Smith, Chris Speed) that collectively articulated instability of practice or representation in a context of complexity and ungrounded disciplines of cultural production and technological duration. Slippages of meaning, deluges of technological complexity and shifting ecologies of value, relevance and engagement accumulate to reveal the “Ill Defined Niche” of contemporary practice. However, this “ill definition” is not a negative insecurity, but rather can be seen as a positive catalyst of complex and contingent configurations of practising. Practices that form projections of work that confront an absence of conventional locations of “meaning” and escape the artificial security of convention and instead expose work to the mess and complexity of the real.’ Felix Robbins (an architectural project) Shaun Murray, November 2011
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Design Ecologies Symposium: the ill defined niche Royal College of Art, London 25th November 2011 ‘The talk was one of several (Shaun Murray, Nic Clear, Donald Smith, Chris Speed) that collectively articulated instability of practice or representation in a context of complexity and ungrounded disciplines of cultural production and technological duration. Slippages of meaning, deluges of technological complexity and shifting ecologies of value, relevance and engagement accumulate to reveal the “Ill Defined Niche” of contemporary practice. However, this “ill definition” is not a negative insecurity, but rather can be seen as a positive catalyst of complex and contingent configurations of practising. Practices that form projections of work that confront an absence of conventional locations of “meaning” and escape the artificial security of convention and instead expose work to the mess and complexity of the real.’ Felix Robbins (an architectural project) Shaun Murray, November 2011
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Design Ecologies Symposium: the ill defined niche

Royal College of Art, London 25th November 2011

‘The talk was one of several (Shaun Murray, Nic Clear, Donald Smith, Chris Speed) that collectively articulated instability of practice or representation in a context of complexity and ungrounded disciplines of cultural production and technological duration. Slippages of meaning, deluges of technological complexity and shifting ecologies of value, relevance and engagement accumulate to reveal the “Ill Defined Niche” of contemporary practice. However, this “ill definition” is not a negative insecurity, but rather can be seen as a positive catalyst of complex and contingent configurations of practising. Practices that form projections of work that confront an absence of conventional locations of “meaning” and escape the artificial security of convention and instead expose work to the mess and complexity of the real.’ Felix Robbins (an architectural project)

Shaun Murray, November 2011