m.dorrian

Metis is a research-orientated atelier for art, architecture and urbanism that was founded by Mark Dorrian and Adrian Hawker in 1997. Over the past 14 years, they have produced a sequence of installations, architectural and urban proposals that have been exhibited and published internationally.

Metis’s first book, Urban Cartographies, was published in 2001 and has been widely circulated and cited, notably in the USA. They have presented the work in lectures and discussions in Antwerp, Berlin, Calgary, Gent, London, Montreal, Paris, and Prague. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA, hosted an exhibition and discussions linked to their book in April 2002. They were shortlisted for a Scottish Arts Council 'Creative Scotland' award in 2003.

Metis' work focuses on the city and the complex ways in which it is imagined, inhabited, and representationally encoded. They aim to produce rich, multi-layered works that resist immediate consumption and that are instead gradually unfurled over time through interaction with them. Their approach is concerned with establishing a poetic but critical approach to the city that is sensitive to its cultural memory but is also articulated in relation to its possible futures.

Metis – selected projects, invited exhibitions, commissions, etc

On the Surface, Arkitektskolen, Aarhus, Denmark, 10th October 2014 - 14th November 2014.

Scriptorium, Culture Lab's OnSite, Newcastle, November 14, 2011.

Finalist, Cultural Centre competition, Northwich (2009)

Special invitation to exhibit, Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, 9 June-17 August, 2008.

Northroom (multimedia installation, with Victoria Clare Bernie) exhibited by invitation in The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, 17 May-1 June, 2007; Il Palaggio di Parte Guelfa, Florence, 12-25 March, 2007; The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 1 December 2006-4 March, 2007. Paul Carter, Agreeable follies: Mental geography and polyoptics of place

Scottish Executive and Lighthouse commission for Venice Architecture Biennale, 2006.

One of 25 European architecture practices competitively selected by a committee led by Claude Parent for inclusion in the book 'Emergence 4: Transmutations - European Architecture', 2006.

'Laputa' (installation), commissioned and exhibited by The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 12 August-2 October, 2005.

'The Parachute Pavilion' (project), exhibited in the Van Alen Institute, New York, 2005

'Metis: Urban Cartographies' (retrospective exhibition), Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Matthew Architecture Gallery, University of Edinburgh, 7 August-10 October, 2003.

'Metis: Urban Cartographies' (retrospective exhibition), BEB Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, 16-26 April, 2002.

'Mimetic Urbanism' (project), exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia: 7a. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, 18 June-29 October, 2000.

Britannia Basin housing (project), Cube Gallery, Manchester, 9 April-28 May, 1999

Latitude and Longitude Resolved (installation), Pitshanger Manor, London, 12 June- 24 July, 1998.

Other:

Commission by BBC of a series of programmes for Radio 3's 'The Essay', based on my paper ‘Clouds of Architecture’, published in Radical Philosophy 144. Programmes 1 and 5 were authored and read by Mark Dorrian; programmes 2, 3 and 4 authored and read by Steve Connor, Esther Leslie and Robert Harbison. Broadcast between 23-27 February 2009.

Manuscript reviewing for publishers:TU Delft (2011), University of Chicago Press (2008), Ashgate (2007, 2008), Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne (2007), Taylor and Francis / Routledge (2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010).

Edinburgh University Student Association (EUSA) nomination for excellence in teaching, 2008-2009 and 2009-2010.