Unknown Quantities
Edition 1

Art & Design, Politics & Architecture

From the Editors

There is that wonderful moment before beginning a meaty new novel, when the crisp pages beg to be thumbed, to become dog-eared. Obscure characters, their psychologies and dramas are sustained in embryonic balance. The cover suggests, the blurb invites, but the book remains an unknown quantity, slowly revealing itself with every turn of the page. We have tried to capture that leisurely joy of reading, and to apply it to the increasingly fast-paced arenas of cultural criticism and graphic design. In our times of pithy reflections in 140 characters, trolling commenters and uncaptioned visual blogs, we invite you to slow down a little bit.

This journal not only brings together culture and design, but also presents a series of articles and features that are best enjoyed on the page, designed to surprise and delight with each subsequent perusal. We wanted to think across the visual and the textual, tracking ideas and images through different locations where creative, innovative and critical thinking take place.

This first issue of Unknown Quantities explores themes of regeneration, gentrification, interdisciplinarity and collaboration, especially across art and science. We welcome you to it.

Editorial

Charlotte Brooks Jen Ideh Amy Tabarly Melanie Weaver Eujung Ahn Kyung-Hee Baek Sukmin Ji Chi Nguyen Sitao Qiu Apolline Saillard

Contents

Sharing is Caring Antonia de la Hera & Own Lacey Boss Men Composing Siobhan Davies Nick Kimberly Odours Give Voice to the Silence Apolline Saillard The Semi-Divine Cooper Gage AXNS Collective Curated Space Interdisciplinarity Dan Callwood Polarities of Practice Rob Kesseler On King's Cross Ella Wearing King's Cross Walks Sara Dimmitt Spatial Stories Chi Nguyen Through the Glass Window Melissa Fielding Storyboarding: Tools For Public Engagement Ryo Terui A Place for You and Me Rudy Leenders

Details

• 176 x 250 mm
• 125 pages
• Edition of 200
• Printed by Push, London
• Printed on GF Smith paper
• ISSN 2055-1479

With thanks

Phil Baines, Roy Killen, Richie Manu, Rebecca Ross, Judy Willcocks, Caroline Woodley, Rebecca Wright, Sam Ashby, Alison Green, Nick Kimberley, Andrea Lioy