THE NAMING PAGE
In this virtual space we can put ideas on the table anonymously, add and amend, criticise and commend.
WHAT WE ARE:
-Architecture Practice
-Educational Institution
-Design Studio
-Exhibition Curators
-Artists
- Consultants
What the name needs to "do" or "be":
-Sound like the sort of place where people would go to study ie. legitimate, professional
-Indicate the broad range of skills, attributes, ambitions we have as a group
GOOD NAMES THAT ALREADY EXIST:
The Poor School
AA
Bureau Spectacular
Studio Weave
Atelier Bow Wow
Tecton Group
Superstudio
Bauhaus
Archigram
... Association
... Institution
... Institute
... Studio
... Group
... School
... Practice
... Collective
... College
... Workshop
... Foundation
... Society
...Movement
...Platform
...Laboratory
What the website should have:
- Current, Past and Future projects and exhibitions
- Courses offered
- Work of Past Students
- Documentation of past summer schools
- System for invoicing and reports
http://www.bloombergspace.com/
http://www.southlondongallery.org/
///OTHER SIMILAR PRACTISES///
http://www.themobilestudio.co.uk/
http://www.situstudio.com/
http://www.post-works.com/projects.html
http://carpentersworkshopgallery.com/
http://www.upprojects.com/
GOOD WEBSITES:
Name as a Name (androgynous?)
Location as a Name (Wren, bloomsbury, clerkenwell, calthorpe...)
Generic locations (house, building, shed, yard, city, river, mountain...)
Don't be clever
Don't be fashionable
Don't be negative.
Given our multiple identities the name should embrace that...
and build an umbrella identity...
Words/ideas written at the banquet:
Architeam
Wren
Geomorphology
Factory
Murmur
Atelier
A Priori
Aggregate
WORDS TO THINK ABOUT
POTENTIAL NAMES:
Potato Print
Harris and Ford
Sprung
Studio A Priori
Sum 41
Let Us Build - abbrev to LUB
LUB talks
School of LUB
etc.
Fancy That
Design Anonymous
Atelier >< Soft
the petrified mill
(workshops from/school of etc.)
a collaborative mind
Surplus Works
ABUNDANT
Blooms Lab (BLT)
Blooms Bureau (BB)
The Collective
Aggregate
Aggregate group. Aggregate Foundation
polymerhaus
polymerised huddle
raze/raise group
off centre centre
key stage 41
stage 41
the 41 school
the 41 studio
the 41 off site etc...
wren street bleeders
Atelier Hun
Wren Street Studio
Wren Street College
Wren Street Collective
MASS
(mass of people, mass as form blah blah - either as an acronym or on its own)
DAUB
UNIT
POOL
Cloud Laboratory
Big Window
The Soft Factory
pandemonium
The Wren LABs
(Learn & Build) <--e.g
“The third mind is there when two minds collaborate.” (William S. Burroughs)
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Acronyms?
Sum 41
The Wren LABs
(Learn & Build) <--e.g
Invitational Association
Soft >< Atelier
Ark on Wren Street (The)
Invitational Association
Soft >< Atelier
Ark on Wren Street (The)
Construct by Design
Innovative Incorporated
Material concept studios
Material Initiative / Initiative Material
A / D / A projects/studios/workshop (art/design/architecture)
All of the below with either assosiation
publications
institute
office of architecure
lecture series, added after it
WREN
PHOENIX (a near by road)
STORE
CAROLINE
PINE
GRAYS
DANE
AVELING
MAGDALA
ST JOHN
CITIZEN
CRANE
ROSEBERY
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