Richard Keating

final preparation

writing draft thesis – reflecting on practice so far, recognise that phase one is complete. Has helped identify the following needs/next steps:

make a “prospectus” for Weave phase 2 for local use

have started uploading work onto Folly Wood website

have started to plan long-distance walk taking on board learning from woodland pilgrimage

have planned seminar with WtL first Friday walkers to share learning

am looking into upgrading computer to cope with as yet unmade animations

Drawing Seminar with Professor Howard Riley, Associate Professor Mary-Ann Kokosa, Richard Monahan, Drs. Natasha Mayo, Rob Newell and Catrin Webster. Regards my own presentation, helped me identify some gaps in my thinking and information presented and some superfluous information.

Final preparation for Drawing Symposium at Swansea Met.

Presentation of “Museum Box” project at UWE. Making links with next steps of the Weave project by clarifying relational, participatory process and identification by AoU of raising the awareness of the Museum in relationship to the canal.

preparing for Place, Space and Practice Forum, Architecture walk and Drawing Symposium

Gainsborough in Bath Study Day at the Holbourne Museum, Bath. Serendipitously, the exhibition will be at Compton Verney over the time that V21 colleagues had agreed to meet as a part of the walk. Looking for threads from Gainsborough’s drawing practice to my own.

A week of reviewing, writing and planning next steps for projects, such as:
walking the land first friday walks seminar and collaboration, Ridgeway walk and collaboration, Derby Walk and collaboration.

Walk to Nailsworth with WtL

Developed ideas for walking as a process to develop ideas with an architectural design team.

Writing weekend in Laugharne with Sue Porter, Alison Parfitt, Diana Ray and Jaqui Taylor. Focused on project at Northleech where the local authority appears to be imposing ideas without due community engagement in the process. Serendipitously: museum focus. Archive as sense of place.

Academy of Urbanism visit day two.
For my practice, the two elements that came through strongly were: to develop the physical and cultural link between town and canal and museum and to work in the context of community area plans.