Portfolio of Interactive Installations

Gabby Shawcross is one of a new generation of architects exploring time-based approaches to place-making and investigating how time-based media might be incorporated into architectural design and experience. The projects in this portfolio were produced while Shawcross was lead designer at Jason Bruges Studio, or independently as partner in the Studio of Cinematic Architecture (SOCA). They are playful experiments at the intersection of architecture, sculpture, live performance, the moving image and digital installation that explore the following research questions: How can architectural environments convey an embodied experience of time? How can cinematic concepts be used in architectural design and place-making? What technologies are appropriate to building performative spatial experiences into everyday life and urban space? While embracing new technological possibilities, they question the dominance of high technology in time-based architecture, instead looking for appropriate technological solutions that build performative spatial experiences into everyday life and urban space. Two of the projects in the portfolio were commissioned for the London 2012 Olympic Games, one as one of the Mayor of London’s Olympic Wonder Installations. It had high visibility and impact during the summer of 2012. ‘Bike Line’ was placed second in the 2011 Architecture Foundation Better Bankside Bike Shed competition. ‘The London Dresser’ was shortlisted for the 2013 AJ Small projects Award in the temporary installation category

Relationships between pyrimidine metabolism and sensitivity to alkylating agents in Aspergillus nidulans.

Relationships between pyrimidine metabolism and sensitivity to alkylating agents in Aspergillus nidulans

Some factors affecting transformation of Aspergillus nidulans - Problems and progress.

Some factors affecting transformation of Aspergillus nidulans - Problems and progress

Media outlets and their moguls: why concentrated individual or family ownership is bad for editorial independence

This article investigates the levels of owner influence in 211 different print and broadcast outlets in 32 different European media markets. Drawing on the literature from industrial organisation, it sets out reasons why we should expect greater levels of influence where ownership of individual outlets is concentrated; where it is concentrated in the hands of individuals or families; and where ownership groups own multiple outlets in the same media market. Conversely, we should expect lower levels of influence where ownership is dispersed between transnational companies. The articles uses original data on the ownership structures of these outlets, and combines it with reliable expert judgments as to the level of owner influence in each of the outlets. These hypotheses are tested and confirmed in a multilevel regression model of owner influence. The findings are relevant for policy on ownership limits in the media, and for the debate over transnational versus local control of media

A sodium fluoride sensitive mutant of Aspergillus nidulans

Fluoride is a widely spread naturally occurring substance in many foods and is used extensively for industrial purposes. The addition of fluoride to drinking water has been assumed to be safe. However, a number of studies have indicated that sodium fluoride is both genotoxic and cytotoxic to mammalian cells (Tsutsui et al. 1984 Mut. Res. 139:193-198). There is conflicting evidence suggesting that NaF is not genotoxic (Kram et al. 1978 Mut. Res. 57:51-55; Martin et al. 1979 Mut. Res. 66:159-167; Li et al. 1987 Mut. Res. 192:191-202) and can suppress the activity of polyfunctional alkylating agents (Obe and Slacik-Erben 1973 Mut. Res. 18:369-371)