So this project was an epic experience from start to finish and we would like to throw out a big thanks to all the members of the public and Hospital club members that helped make this project happen with your contributions of pictures and stories. THANK YOU!

So here are a couple of picture of the project in a variety of stages. :]

Holla all!

If you don’t already know, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones… we’ve got everyone else already lending a hand.

But we wouldn’t want to keep you in the dark… oh no. Not when it’s just a matter of days now til Jordan and Niall decamp temporarily from the Hospital Club and set up office with aberrant architecture under the full glare of Oxford Street. Ah yes!

The story is this: we’re Architecture Residents here at the Hospital, aberrant are Architecture Residents over at the V&A. Now we’re teaming together to stage a joint two-week ‘pop-up residency’ in Selfridges’ famous Wonder Room Windows.

From 9.30am on 16th June we’ll be transforming our temporary home there from a blank retail canvas to a sprawling cityscape installation. Day by day and brick by brick, the growth of the city will be visible to the masses coming and going outside.

Fellow Creatives in Residence Alex Shepherd (Visual Arts 2010), Simon Burrill (Film 2009) and Destiny Ekaragha (Film 2010) have joined the project too. Alex and Simon will be showing new work alongside and amidst our Selfridges city, while Destiny is going rogue to shoot ‘behind the scenes’. Now all we need is… you.

This city will be built from things you tell us about your own personal London – diverse, perverse, love it or loathe it, private or otherwise – anything goes. Please click here and take a minute to send us a picture, a word or an idea that tells us something about what London means to you. Then the HOJO/aberrant residency tagteam will magic it into our alternative model city.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Oh and drop by anytime from 16th June to stare and point at us, live at work in the window. We look forward to seeing you. x

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Please note: all visual material you send us must be your own original work. If a recognisable person is included in any video or photograph you send us, you must ensure that you have the signed consent of that person for that material to be exhibited in public. In the event of a complaint you will be required to produce a copy of that signed consent.

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.