Last night we were at a ‘Penguin Pool’ event at Arup London’s headquarters which included displays, speakers and the opening of a short exhibition dedicated to the Arkitypo project.
Arup’s have very kindly helped out on the construction of dedicated plinths for the pieces that allow them to stand, or be suspended, and have lent their exhibition space for a week.
Great to see all the pieces together. Sadly too frail to be on display without a perspex cover, but a lot of very interested visitors and interesting questions about the project.
It was also great to be able to get ‘up close’ to some of the pieces again (most were finished a couple of months ago).
This eight minute ambient animation is projected onto one of the exhibition space’s walls and explains the background to each piece in more detail.
Speaking at the event was Matt Webb from Berg - a great snapshot of the state of art in data visualisation that touched on fascinating subjects such as Chernoff Faces and their recent Little Printer project.
Michael Johnson from johnson banks then took the crowd on a 12 minute journey though the thinking behind the Arkitypo project.
Then we believe, there may well have been some drinks. A great evening.
The exhibition itself is only on for a short amount of time - it's open today (Friday) then until the 8th next week, 9.00am to 6.00pm daily. We’re told out of hours visits are possible, but have to be arranged in advance, by appointment by emailing Sarah (dot) Maddison (at) Arup (dot) com.
Thanks again to Tom, Jennifer, Sarah and the Arup's team for arranging, the Ravensbourne team and Creative Review.
