Abstract / Description of output
The exhibition includes a sampling of videos and models from the Retooling Cockenzie Power Station third year design studio which explored intervening with an environmental agenda on a complex constructed site. Decommissioned in 2013 by Scottish Power due to its failure to comply with EU emissions standards, the Cockenzie Power Station was slowly dismantled over the course of the semester in Autumn 2015. Using split screen video and physical model as primary design tools, students redesigned the site as it underwent its own gradual erasure. Conceived of as a vast machine, remaining infrastructure on the site was recalibrated into a range of new imaginative productive futures including a concrete recycling facility, a salt/freshwater public pool, a bird watching facility, and a community hydroponic farm.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - May 2016 |