Matt McCallum

Disinhibitors The development of an architectural analytical tool that can provide an imagery for intangible personal space as a projection of negative space. Tools used were Kinect, Unity 3D, Rhino & Grasshopper.

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Disinhibitors - [ / touch ]

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Faerie Fort in Rath - County Tipperary

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Portra 400 - Yashica Mat 124 G

Faerie Fort in Rath - County Tipperary

Some shots from a trip to a fairy fort in County Tipperary, Ireland. They're often the source of superstition and thought to be dangerously bad luck, the owner/farmer for example refused to ever cut the grass or interfere with the area. It's even spookier that this ring contains a ruined church with three equally spaced, centrally planted trees growing through the roof also with an attached graveyard. The use of infra-red film was an attempt to capture something of the invisible and superstitious nature of the place.

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Ilford SFX 200 Infra-red film - Canon AE-1

True, in order for a sense of ‘pastness’ to exist, a thin wedge had to be inserted between yesterday and today, opening up a ‘before’ and ‘after’. This distance was not seen as implying a radical difference, however; it was rather a gap, a hiatus, and as such called for a restoration of continuity. - Pierre Nora, Memory, 2012

Found Objects as stimuli for collective memory

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As Found objects as an architectural intervention

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Daily sights in Deansgrange, Co. Dublin

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Impossible Project 600 colour film - Polaroid 635

It was Left Bank, but on the right side of the park and with just enough flair to make up for the lack of floor space. Customers could come here and imagine that the Siene rather than the Clyde was on the other side of the football pitches. They had not expected a Ronnie Scott club tinted by a touch of Manhattan – with just enough of the old Metropole in the atmosphere to keep it from getting above itself – to rise out of a subterranean property leftover. Yet here it was, and less than a hundred yards from Brig’ton Cross. - John Cairney

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Archive of Collective Memory, Bridgeton - Glasgow

The Archive of Collective Memory aims to study the palimpsest of the populations of Scotland. Offering the act of remembrance and historic feature to a similar capacity of open source development will create an archive of unique and invaluable insights on the past. The intent is to provide an accessible space for residents of Scotland to share items, moments, or stories that are special to them. This archive of personal treasures will display the rich and diverse history of Scotland’s past, present and future with the displayed memories containing an intimacy, focussing on individuals and their approach to understanding the world.

History is factual but memory is poetic. Our material discoveries of history display themselves as ruins or fragments, waiting to be investigated. Other sources of memory in the material form once came from the archives of great families, the church, or the state. Their collections permanently embedded to history through their influence. We exist in a time where the collective memory of the ordinary can be collected and remembered. Removing the politicised process from remembrance empowers the entire population of a nation, whose stories can be heard and shared, a people’s history.

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Archive of Collective Memory, Bridgeton - Glasgow

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Archive of Collective Memory, Bridgeton - Glasgow

Matt McCallum

Archive of Collective Memory, Bridgeton - Glasgow

Matt McCallum

Archive of Collective Memory, Bridgeton - Glasgow

Matt McCallum

Archive of Collective Memory, Bridgeton - Glasgow

Technical detailed isometric

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Archive of Collective Memory, Bridgeton - Glasgow

Matt McCallum

Archive of Collective Memory, Bridgeton - Glasgow

Matt McCallum

Archive of Collective Memory, Bridgeton - Glasgow

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