Trailer for a forthcoming short film entitled ‘The Last Rag and Bone Man’, a collaboration between Gordon Ballantyne and the Creative Studio Pidgin Perfect.

Collective Mesh 3 represents an abstracted plan of IRONBBRATZ Studios by Pidgin Perfect. See more work here.

Why is it that when we look up at the sky our eyes interpret the clouds as images we connect to? There goes a flock of sheep or indeed a bus load of sheep, I swear I even once saw a killer sheep (strange connection I know). Or when we look up at the stars, in the constellations we see great bears and little bears, a big dipper, heroes and bulls. And why is it that we see a man in the moon?

I think our minds construct meaning and mental associations out of arbitrary pattern to transport us there, to allow our imagination to exist in that place that cannot be physically reached however surreal it may be. This is why in my own shadow screen design, ‘Playtime’ the child figures depicted are not intended to leap out at you at first glance; rather they are hidden amongst the rising balloons. The eye therefore discovers them only after a prolonged gaze as if conjured from the imagination.

We cannot physically return to childhood, to those playful afternoons of long shadows but this scene hopefully transports the imagination there to reignite that same wonder.

Dele Adeyemo
www.pidginperfect.com

As part of the larger SASA (Scottish Architecture Students Assembly) 2010 event, ‘Brand Vs. Ethos’ was a design led workshop hosted by Pidgin Perfect which invited 20 students from the six schools of architecture in Scotland to take part in a topical discussion, react and make a statement.

‘Brand Vs. Ethos’ investigated the current identity crisis taking place within Scotland, and more specifically Glasgow. Challenging the premise of branding the city as a commodity, the workshop asked for the participants to devise their own manifesto for how city’s should identify themselves and then subsequently produce a piece of propaganda to illustrate their manifesto whilst tackling the current ‘Glasgow: Scotland with Style’ marketing campaign.

The workshop began at the office of Collective Architecture where Jude Barber, a director at the office, presented a small seminar on the topic of ‘self actuated projects’, refering greatly to her work with GLASpaper which began as a student project and then subsequently transformed into an internationally respected set of journals. This discussion set the precedent for the ideas and concepts of the workshop, essentially providing young and talented students of architecture with the tools and medium in which to communicate their opinions and manifesto’s on urbanity and general everyday issues.

The workshop posed that we need to reject the idea of the city as a brand to be marketed and rather develop an ethos in order to create a meaningful collective urban identity? ‘Brand Vs. Ethos’ used the tools of ‘branding and marketing’ to demonstrate how the reductive branding of cities (such as Glasgow) ignores heritage, place and people with the physical result being the closure of active elements which no longer sit within the manufactured image of the city.

The propaganda created explored the ramifications of the loss of continuity, expropriations, speculative developments, buzz word regenerations, elitist cultural projects and suggested more meaningful images to represent Glasgow as a city.

Interestingly so, all of the workshops groups looked towards finding stories and images from actual Glaswegians to portray ideas on the attitude and ‘style’ of Glasgow. The end result suggested that an acceptance of Glasgow as a melting point of culture, history, immigration, ideals and attitudes could have been simply portrayed by embracing the notion of, ‘Glasgow: Scotland with STYLES’… the plurality of ‘styles’ illuminating the great depth, variety and character available. This ‘new attitude’ was then supported by a series of satirical and humours images that typical represent ‘Glasgow Banter’.

‘Brand Vs. Ethos’ was launched at Mono Café/Bar in the Kings Court area of Glasgow with one of the workshops associated tasks being to ask the participants to curate a Flash Mob exhibition in Mono Café/Bar in 45 minutes to display the work created that day. The exhibition was launched to the public that evening with many local artists and architects in attendance; including Jude Barber and Chris Stewart of Collective Architecture, representatives from NORD and Chris Leslie amongst others.

With great thanks and appreciation to Central Station and Central Station Member Fund for all there help and support in making this event as successful and special as possible.

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SASA was one of the projects awarded cash from the Central Station Members Fund.

Pop Up Cinéma Matinée was a unique and free cinema event for members of the public which will took place in the courtyard of ‘The Barra’s Centre’ on Friday 20th August from 11.30am – 1pm.
The event aimed to create a discussion on the ‘collective urban identity’ of Glasgow and look at the current shape of regeneration taking place in the city through the showing of a series of original short films which deat with issues of identity, community and memory in Glasgow’s changing urban landscape. Pop Up Cinéma Matinée saw various artists from the city come together to show their work in a collective presentation and in an unexpected ‘pop up’ environment to new and old audiences.

Providing an opportunity for artists within the city to meet, share, understand and appreciate their work with not only one another but the general everyday public and the city.

Pop Up Cinéma Matinée was also intended as a celebration of ‘Paddy’s Market’, an historical flea market in Glasgow City Centre, which closed in the May of 2009. Short films which focused on Paddy’s Market were shown by local Glasgow artists Chris Leslie and Sijle Eirin Aure. Edinburgh based artist Lindsay Perth was also invited to screen some short films which dealt with high rise living within Glasgow.

Pop Up Cinéma Matinée took the form of a 1:1 temporary bespoke cinema installation, designed and created by Marc Cairns and Dele Adeyemo of PIDGIN PERFECT. The installation utilises the covered courtyard space at The Barras Centre, a project by ataStudio.  The project also sought to highlight the trade of the local area and more specifically The Barra’s by ensuring that the entire event from materiality to catering was sourced from local traders in an effort to encourage trade in the area and show the merits of the area.

Pop Up Cinéma Matinée was presented by ‘PIDGIN PERFECT’ as part of the  SASA 2010 event day. Pop Up Cinéma Matinée is an example of a SASA event which seeks to prove that collective thought creates a more powerful response.

With great thanks and appreciation to Central Station and Central Station Member Fund for all there help and support in making this event as successful and special as possible.

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SASA was one of the projects awarded cash from the Central Station Members Fund.

Pop Up Cinéma Matinée is a unique and free cinema event for all members of the public which will take place in th courtyard of ‘The Barras Centre’ on Friday 20th August from 11.30am – 1pm.

The event will aim to create a discussion on the ‘collective urban identity’ of Glasgow and look at the current shape of regeneration taking place in the city by showing a series of original short films which deal with issues of identity, community and memory in Glasgow’s changing urban landscape. Pop Up Cinéma Matinée is also intended as a celebration of Paddy’s Market, an historical flea market in Glasgow City Centre, which closed in the May of 2009.

Pop Up Cinéma Matinée will take the form of a 1:1 temporary bespoke cinema installation, designed and created by Marc Cairns and Dele Adeyemo; two Masters of Architecture students from the University of Strathclyde. The installation will utilise the covered courtyard space at The Barras Centre, a project by ataSTUDIO.   

Pop Up Cinéma Matinée will see various artists from the city come together to show their work in a collective presentation and in an unexpected ‘pop up’ environment to new and old audiences. Providing an opportunity for artists within the city to meet, share, understand and appreciate their work with not only one another but the general everyday public and the city.

Pop Up Cinéma Matinée is presented to you by ‘Pidgin Perfect’ as part of the SASA 2010 event day, www.sasa010.blogspot.com. Pop Up Cinéma Matinée is an example of a SASA event which seeks to prove that collective thought creates a more powerful response.

The list of original short films by local artists we will be showing at Pop Up Cinéma Matinée is as follows,

‘Remembering Paddy’s Market’ by Chris Leslie

‘For Fur A Fiver’ by Silje Eirin Aure
 
‘Multi-Story’ (Artist Residency) by Lindsay Perth (www.multi-story.org) (www.lippi.org)

‘Bridgegate Stories’ by Polyark II

‘Letterfrack 2008′ by easaEIRE

Refreshments and a variety of snacks will be available, sponsored by Vitamin Water and The Barras Bistro.

With thanks to Central Station, Vitamin Water, The Barras Bistro, Rock Cof , Collective Architecture  and Page/Park Architects.

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SASA was one of the projects awarded cash from the Central Station Members Fund.