The critical 'Pop-up' book: Reimagining London's Olympic 'Structures of Enchantment'.

该项目将立体书作为城市设计/研究中的一种新的批判性/创造性工具，对其有趣的传统/技术进行了检验和重新激活。每一页的翻页都是一个关键的时刻，同时也是建设/拆除的时刻，我们可以把弹出式书和城市再生看作是类似的，使用弹出式技术来重新诠释不断变化的城市景观，特别是2012年伦敦奥运会场地。该项目重新定义了立体书，重点关注其作为“迷人结构”的作用（Montanero 93）。传统的pop-up历史包括对其教学和娱乐形式的研究，但我的重点是它在神话故事中的血统，通过神话故事的结构来构建童话故事。特别的神话或“迷人的结构”在这里被检验和批判的是“奥林匹克故事”作为一个大规模的城市再生项目所固有的进步的乌托邦神话。立体书被称为“活模型”、“可移动的书”或“变形书”（海宁79），通过它来进行叙事/结构动画。这个项目借鉴了我的电影和动画经验，在传统的形式之外发展了弹出式类型，探索和比较了书籍的时间和叙事结构与城市空间的结构。这种弹出式的形式使视觉化的进程成为废墟，其灵感来自艺术家罗伯特·史密森的“逆向废墟”（1967）的概念，其中“建筑物不是在建成后倒塌，而是在建成之前就上升成废墟”。他将破旧的“帕伦克酒店”（Hotel Palenque, 1969）描述为这种结构的终极形式，这种结构经历了不断的衰败和翻新。因为建筑随着书页的翻动而起伏，立体书是探索正在经历毁灭/更新的特定城市景观的熵方面的最佳媒介。使用这种可折叠的建模技术，我批判了传统建筑模型的理想化未来预测，揭示了变化的机制，并在重大转变的边缘创造了一个不稳定的景观。该奖学金的概念和实践时间表遵循三个阶段的建设时间（奥运场地建成），活动时间（奥运会举办）和展开时间（遗产开始）。遗产和潜力的概念是关键，从古奥林匹亚到多层次的东伦敦工业区，这个项目着眼于历史/对毁灭的理解（Ginsberg 04,Picon 00,Makarius 04），作为潜在的改变和替代想象未来的可能性。将制作一系列3本动画书籍（人工制品），最终完成1本奥林匹克卷，旨在抵消/干预平板化城市化的影响，通过对该地区过去/现在/未来的展望，为该地区的结构性景观赋予动画。这些书的页面包含了基于当地历史/故事、文献和投影的戏剧装置或“构建情境”，呈现了场地“之前”、“之后”和“中间”的全景和编排视图。另一个合著的出版物（“结构魅力”）和会议将探讨在制作书籍和场地的过程中平行的建设过程，并研究遗产的展开时间。我选择继续我与2012年伦敦奥运会的跨学科合作，使用熟悉而有趣的立体书媒介，吸引来自学术界和当地社区的不同观众和合作者。我将通过讲习班/研讨会、制作和公开发布/展览立体书以及最终出版和会议的“制作”，探索/传播围绕奥运遗址和遗产的故事和问题。重塑低技术媒介的边界，我将我的城市研究实践的特定地点方法与先进的模型和动画技巧结合起来，调查这个备受瞩目和有争议的再生场地。

This project examines and reinvigorates the playful tradition/techniques of the pop-up book as a new critical/creative tool in urban design/research. Each turn of the page enacts a critical moment of simultaneous construction/demolition and it is possible to consider the pop-up book and urban regeneration as analogous, using pop-up techniques to reinterpret a changing urban landscape, specifically the London 2012 Olympics site. The project re-defines the pop-up book focusing on its role as a 'structure of enchantment'(Montanero 93). Conventional history of the pop-up involves study of its instructional and entertainment formats, but my emphasis is on its lineage in mythical storytelling through which the structures of fairytales are built. The particular myth or 'structure of enchantment' examined and critiqued here is the utopian myth of progress inherent in the 'Olympic Story' as a large-scale urban regeneration project. Pop-up books are referred to as 'living models', 'moveable books' or 'metamorphoses' (Haining 79), through which narrative/structural animation take place. This project draws on my film and animation experience to develop the pop-up genre beyond conventional formats, exploring and comparing the temporal and narrational structures of the book with those of urban space. The pop-up form enables the visualisation of progress as ruin inspired by artist Robert Smithson's notion of 'Ruins in Reverse' (67) in which 'buildings don't fall into ruin after they are built but rather rise into ruin before they are built.' He describes the dilapidated 'Hotel Palenque'(69) as the ultimate form of this-structure undergoing constant and simultaneous decay and renovation. Because structures literally rise and fall with the turn of a page, the pop-up book is the optimum medium through which to explore the entropic aspects of a specific urban landscape undergoing ruination/renewal. Using this collapsible modelling technique I critique the idealised future projections of conventional architectural models, exposing the mechanisms of change and creating an unsettled landscape on the brink of major transformation. The fellowship's conceptual and practical timeframe follows the 3 stages of construction time (Olympic site built), event time (Olympics staged) and unfolding time (legacy begins). The notions of legacy and potential are key, as from ancient Olympia to a multi-layered industrial East End site this project looks at a history/understanding of ruination (Ginsberg 04,Picon 00,Makarius 04) as potential-opening up possibilities of change and alternative imagined futures.A series of 3 animated books (artefacts) finalised in 1 Olympic volume will be produced which aim to counteract/intervene in the effect of tabula-rasa urbanism-animating a structural landscape from visions of the past/present/future of this zone. The pages of these books comprise theatrical installations or 'constructed situations' built out of local histories/stories, documentation and projections, presenting a panoramic and choreographic view of the site's 'before','after' and 'in-between'. A further co-authored publication ('Structuring Enchantment') and conference will explore the parallel construction processes at work in the making of both books and site and examine the unfolding time of legacy. I choose to continue my interdisciplinary engagement with the London 2012 Games using the familiar and playful pop-up book medium to engage diverse audiences and collaborators from academia to local communities. I will explore/disseminate the stories and issues surrounding the Olympic site and legacy through workshops/seminars and the production and public launch/exhibition of the pop-up books and final 'making of' publication and conference. Reinventing the boundaries of a low-tech medium I combine the site-specific approach of my urban research practice with advanced model and animation skills to investigate this high-profile and contested regeneration site.