An introduction to Studio12

Cities create things, consume them and produce their by-product which we call waste. The efficient functioning of a city depends on its ability to deal with this waste. In our economy the patterns of production, consumption and waste management are global, but the effects are localised.

We believe that we are embarking on a new era in which we cannot afford to throw 'away', hide or ignore the unwanted things we produce. This is beginning to affect the producers, making designers and manufacturers responsible for the eventual recycling of the products they make, as well as the consumer, demanding that we take responsibility for our own waste.

This begins to re-conceive the basis of our relationship with goods and materials. In place of the current linear process (produce, consume, discard), goods we no longer want or can use must become the beginning of something else, forming a cyclic process.

We will speculate on what this might mean for architecture, for our lives and for the city.

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

All is not wasted...… including facial hair!

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Inspired by course-mate Av, I also started to grow a moustache (Mo) for Movemebr - an annual, month-long celebration of the moustache, highlighting men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer.

I would grow a moustache for a month from 25th Nov to 24th Dec, 2009. As my ‘facial hair hormone’ is not very strong, I do not have much hair on my face. It would be interesting not only to see how my thin moustache is going to be like after a month, but also how my moustache is not wasted and raises money for the fight against prostate cancer and depression in men.

To donate to my Mo, you can either:
a) Click this link http://uk.movember.com/mospace/504217/ and donate online using your credit card, debit card or PayPal account
b) Write a cheque payable to ‘The Prostate Cancer Charity - Movember’, referencing my Registration Number 504217 and mailing it to: Movember - The Prostate Cancer Charity, First Floor, Cambridge House, Cambridge Grove, London, W6 0LE.

Thank you very much!

For more information about Movember, please check http://uk.movember.com/about/

Day00 Shaved on 24th Nov, 2009
Day01 Nothing happened yet
Day02 Visually nothing happened but could feel with fingers
Day03 Growing extremely slow
Day04 Struggling
Day05 Still Struggling
Day06 Tiny Little Mo
Day07 Tiny Little Mo Still
Day08 Too Cold for MoMo
Day09 More Visible
Day10 My hair grows faster than my moustache
Day11 Moustache may stop growing
Day12 Does the Sun help?
Day13 Low dense moustache
Day14 Intermission
Day15 Do not care anymore
Day16 Flash helps to show the Mo
Day17 Halfway
Day18 No Mo
Day19 My eyebrows are not dense too
Day20 Ten days left to be wild and 'un-ding-able'
Day21 Proud of having no Mo
Day22 Mo likes my eyebrows
Day23 Even nasal hair grows longer than my Mo
Day24 Good/bad photography skills can hide Mo
Day25 Five days to go
Day26 Happy return to Scotland, with or without Mo
Day27 Mo smile
Day28
Day29 Preparing for Christmas
Day30 Last day on Christmas Eve
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