![]() Cumbria 2006 The Etheric BoathouseBrantwood, CumbriaThe Brantwood Trust, on Coniston Water in Cumbria, is currently reconstructing John Ruskin’s lakeside boathouse, thereby completing the harbour project that so preoccupied the writer and critic in the late 1870s.
In parallel with this renovation project Ewan Forster & Christopher Heighes have been commissioned to devise a separate construction that will illuminate the complexity of thought that underpinned Ruskin’s ‘domestic’ projects and reconnect a contemporary public with his artistic, educational and economic radicalism.
![]() London 1999 The CurriculumRoehampton, LondonAn exploration of the English picturesque landscape and the radical educational idealism of Friedrich Froebel. Commissioned by the University of Surrey, Roehampton. | ![]() London 1994 Union Chapel, LondonAn unauthorised tour of architect James Cubitt’s ‘people’s gothic’ chapel. A partial dictionary of dissent. Commissioned by The Union Chapel Project and London Arts Board. ![]() London 2002 Middle EnglishQueens Square, LondonPresented as a performance lecture, using film, text, and live music; Middle English invites the audience to learn the language of a building and search for the roots of words and idioms amongst the disciplines of brick laying, road building, hedge planting and smock making. | ![]() London 1997 A Board of Inquiry into the Loss of the Mary Ward House StoryBloomsbury, LondonAn interrogation of one of London’s most influential but least known Victorian settlement buildings designed by Arts and Crafts architects Dunbar Smith and Cecil Brewer. ![]() London 2003 You Are HereRed Lion Square, LondonAn informal unguided walk which explored local Bloomsbury architecture and culture. Commissioned by Performance Architecture Location for the 7-day international symposium CIVICCentre: Reclaiming the Right to Performance.
| ![]() Liverpool 2004 Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, LiverpoolOver the period of eighteen months during 2003/2004 Forster & Heighes developed a proposal for an installation in the tower of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. The resulting installation, commissioned to mark the Cathedral’s centenary, was an attempt to celebrate and articulate the grand silent spaces that characterise Scott’s work. ![]() Berlin 2007 , BerlinDie Erde, eine gute Wohnung :
An international site-specific collaboration produced by Forster & Heighes and the Hebbel Theatre, Berlin (HAU) presented on one of Berlin's most extraordinary but undervalued housing estates - Bruno Taut's "Hufeisensiedlung" in Berlin Neukolln.
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