Gordon Duffy, architect; Pecha Kucha Edinburgh coordinator
http://www.studiodub.co.uk/
Presenters:
Tim Taylor, architect, artist + Christmas Pecha Kucha MC
http://timgtaylor.com/
Tim Taylor graduated from Edinburgh College of Art School of Architecture and continues to live and work in Edinburgh. His artwork celebrates the quotidian and the commonplace, both as subject and material. He has shown locally, nationally and internationally (from Kirkcudbright, Dumfries to Ekaterinburg, Russia) and in a variety of environments and mediums, from gallery-based work to public installation and performance. In 2008 he swam Edinburgh’s hidden water course of public and private pools from the hills to the sea in a day, walking between them in sandals and robe. His most recent project saw the marriage of his formal and informal educations in the form of an award-winning installation of twenty-six works embedded within the building fabric of The West Centre, an NHS flagship healthcare building for children in Glasgow. He is currently building every water tower photographed by Hilla and Bernd Becher out of matchsticks.
Miles Glendinning, writer, historian
http://www.eca.ac.uk/staff_profiles/view/dr-miles-glendinning/
Miles Glendinning is Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies and Professor in Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on modernist and contemporary architecture and housing: books include the award winning Tower Block (with Stefan Muthesius), Modern Architect, on the life and times of Sir Robert Matthew, and Architecture’s Evil Empire – a polemical evaluation of contemporary ‘iconic modernism’. Current research projects include an international history of the conservation movement and an investigation of mass housing in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Michael Wolchover, photographer
http://michael-wolchover.com
Having grown up with a family hardware business and parents who were young trendies in the 1930s it is probably unsurprising that I decided to study design at the Central School and went on to co-found a furniture and interior design practice in London in 1962 following up with a spell at a design studio in Boston Massachusetts. While in the USA I became involved in the emerging audio visual business and on my return to London continued what became a long career producing documentary programmes often interpreting the world of objects and the built environment for clients in both the public and private arenas to a wide variety of audiences – since the 1980s based in Scotland – first Glasgow, now Edinburgh.
Images, still and moving, were the main components of these productions and as time has passed the creation of images independently of the programmes has become a more important aspect of my work. In recent years I have concentrated almost exclusively on still photography, usually interpreting some aspect of the built environment and more recently documenting the work of fellow artists or curators. In a not entirely unconscious return to my early preoccupation with the ‘objectivity’ of things my photography increasingly seeks to expose the content of things by exploring their form – a kind of benign abstraction.
Aided by the development of digital media I am beginning to move away from commissioned projects into work for publication and exhibition.
Tania Czajka, puppeteer
http://www.lepetitmonde.co.uk/en/about-us
After graduating in Paris in 1991 Tania Czajka came to Scotland as an au pair for a year. Scotland felt good so she stayed on and studied at Strathclyde University for a further year as a Postgraduate in 'Librarianship & Information Studies'. She gave this up to start a career in childcare. Tania qualified as a nursery nurse and worked in nurseries for eight years before realising it was time to use her skills more creatively. She decided to teach children her native French language through puppet shows. Her approach to puppetry and teaching proved popular. With some funding and a lot of hard work, she set up her company Le Petit Monde and the first show starring Lapin and his friends was born. Le Petit Monde now has three shows in its repertoire and performs in nurseries, schools and theatres. She also runs classes and workshops for children aged 0 to 11. "Scotland still feels good..."
Chris Greive , jazz trombonist
http://www.newtnet.co.uk/About/Chris-Greive
Chris Greive is an Australian born freelance jazz trombonist, composer & arranger for Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, co-leads his own Prog Jazz group, NeWt, works as an educator at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, has developed Maths teaching methods based on similarities in music (Creative Maths Project 2008), writes & produces music for many studio based projects including with the Monosapiens, surfs in the icy waters around Scotland and is husband to vocalist Becc Sanderson and father to a couple of brilliant daughters. Baaam!!!
Interval: Domestic Erosion Part 1 (iron & ice) Tim Taylor 2003
drinks, £1 a pop please
Dimitris Theodossopoulos , civil engineer
http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/dtheodo1/
Dimitris Theodossopoulos is a civil engineer and university lecturer with a strong interest in the design and conservation of historic structures. His current projects include the architectural and structural understanding of brochs, theoretical aspects in structural interventions, construction and performance of Georgian fabric, and the construction-led design process in Gothic vaults. These areas have shown the richness in technical and structural strategies followed by past masons and designers, essential values that a conservation project must interact with and whose significance they must serve to update.
Anne Bevan, sculptor
http://www.annebevan.co.uk/
Anne Bevan is an artist fascinated by water, energy, place and the physical nature of material. Originally from Orkney, where she continues to have strong links, Anne is based in Edinburgh and is a lecturer in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art. An important part of her work involves working with people from other disciplines such as science and industry. She exposes and reveals spaces, forms and methods normally unseen by us, but which are fundamental to our daily environment and existence. Recent projects include working with marine sciences, looking at wave and tidal energy, and research into marine micro-organisms in relation to climate change. Anne often collaborates with other artists, composers, performers and writers, including several projects with the writer Janice Galloway.
James Harris, historian of philosophy
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/dept/staffprofiles/?staffid=103
James Harris has taught philosophy at St Andrews since 2004. He came to Scotland from Oxford. His teaching and research are both focused on the history of philosophy in the early modern period, beginning around 1650 and ending around 1800. Unlike most of his colleagues, he believes that the history of philosophy is a different subject from 'philosophy'. At the moment he is writing an intellectual biography of David Hume.
Paul Slifer , tattoo artist
http://www.redhotandbluetattoo.org.uk/
Paul Slifer is a tattooist, illustrator and painter living and working in Edinburgh. He began tattooing in 1990 while attending the Rhode Island School of Design where he received a BFA in painting. Paul moved to Edinburgh in 1997 and now owns and operates Red Hot and Blue Tattoo in Tollcross. He is married to the architect Clare Slifer and they have two daughters, Esme and Sadie.
Dave Boyd, musician
http://www.daveboyd.net
Rhythm - you can't beat it! Dave is a charismatic live performer, highly regarded accompanist and facilitator who’s work has included Irish and Scots traditional music, funk, blues and jazz ensembles, choral groups, electro-acoustic, percussion ensembles, theatre, dance and circus - most recently with the internationally acclaimed Irish company Fabulous Beast.
He began his musical career on being able to reach the piano keyboard at the age of five. Ongoing delight in music then led him to the study of a wide range of percussion. As a composer and musical director he has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Abbey Theatre, Dublin , BBC, and The National Theatre of Scotland and been in receipt of Composer's Bursary awards from Arts Councils in Ireland and the UK. His participatory and interactive work includes award winning innovative productions developed at The Ark in Dublin, and during his tenure as Musician in Residence for Giant, Glasgow, and for Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. He also tours internationally with the North Atlantic Trio. The Irish Times described his production ‘The Elements’ - written with Robbie Harris - as ‘one of the most engaging and uplifting performances I have ever attended’
