Jordan Hodgson and Niall Gallacher work with architecture and the built environment and are co-founders of House of Jonn, a studio for creative engagement with the city. They studied Architecture at Leeds and Cambridge respectively then together at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2009. Recent work includes a two-week live residency at Selfridges, design for a production of Beethoven's opera 'Fidelio' in a Russian gulag and construction of a new Shoreditch club and event space.
Wonder residency
A-ha……….. finally a chance to lift our heads just long enough to blog. Sorry for the silence – we could blame it on the sunshine, blame it on the boogie, but really it’s because the ‘Welcome to your City’ project has kicked off in a big way.
Long story short, we’re teaming up with aberrant architecture to stage a dual pop-up residency event-cum-installation in Selfridges Wonder Windows on Oxford Street. Simon Burrill and Alex Shepheard, fellow CiRs past and present, are contributing to the project and will be exhibiting new work during the event. Super to have them involved. There’s blurb over at CiR HQ – go and contribute! Or come and visit us live on site from the 15th of June.
In the meantime, here’s some work we did with our Selfridges co-conspirators aberrant architecture and Melissa Appleton last year. A ‘fiction based on fact’, aberrant presented a pavilion at the SZHK Biennale 2009 to showcase the ideas of ‘Gordon Wu’*, Hong Kong’s foremost captain of industry and infrastructural visionary… More about that here. And more from us soon about Project Selfridges. x
* any resemblance to real persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
