Robin Howie

New work: Brent Cross Town wayfinding

The first 2022 Fieldwork Facility project has gone live!
We’ve designed the pedestrian wayfinding for Brent Cross Town.

Billed as a Park Town for future London – Brent Cross Town is a multi-billion pound development with the aim of becoming the place in London to participate in sport and play. The development is a joint partnership between Argent Related with Barnet Council. Argent is the developer behind Kings Cross & Related behind Hudson Yards, NY.

This is the first part of a wider FF project. We have been looking after the experience of a ten-minute walk from Brent Cross tube station to the new development. The project includes wayfinding, curating and commissioning public art, design interventions along the route, a parade of shops and general hygiene improvements too.

We had some lovely press for this project; here’s an interview in Creative Review:

Across the pond it was covered in Communication Arts:

Over on The Future Laboratory’s LSN Global.

And over in Spain it was also covered in Gràffica.

2022 let’s go. 🚀
Robin Howie

New work: Zero Days

How do you protect an elite sports team in a pandemic?
I’ve been absolutely itching to share this Fieldwork Facility project for ages...

Rewind to Summer 2020, the entire world is in lockdown and yet some sporting events are beginning to happen again, including the Tour de France. Team Ineos (previously Team Sky and now Ineos Grenadiers) is the world’s greatest professional cycling team with seven Tour de France wins in its twelve-year history.

Fieldwork Facility joined a team of Performance Directors, Hygiene Experts and Behavioural Psychologists, together our challenge was to deliver a team-wide behaviour-change programme with an aim of losing Zero Days to avoidable illness throughout the pandemic and beyond.

Case study now live here.
🚴🏼 ⭕️ 😷
Robin Howie

Fieldnotes — Week 552

This week we had a really big share on Project Playway and made great progress with Project Centurion too, a little highlight of the week was a highly masked up site visit for Centurion involving thirty meters of rope.

In the (home) studio, we got a little obsessed with obscure Japanese telephone boxes…


Loads more to explore and enjoy here:

https://mogumi.com/telephone-booth/photo_telphone-...
https://denwakyoku.jp/public_telephone.html

We had a good look at Olafur Eliasson’s new major work in Chicago (and briefly imagined in a couple of years time visiting a group exhibition at the Tate where major artists displayed work they made in lockdown… warts and all).

A Tiled Wave Ripples Across Olafur Eliasson’s New Installation in Downtown Chicago

A tip of the hat to the resourcefulness of the Chip Bag project ‘A Detroit Environmental Activist is Turning Chip Bags into Sleeping Bags for the Homeless
We admired the obsession that led to this book of British Gate typologies being made (click through to see the entire thread)

https://twitter.com/QuintinLake/status/13548728189...

We also came across this insta account of soviet architecture, https://www.instagram.com/northern.friend/

We listened to Alastair Parvin explain how pretty much everything bad in the society can be traced to the history of the history of land system… absolutely fascinating, highly recommended.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4cCOuSaJcqwa10jxE...

And congratulations to placement Megan Joy Barclay who along with a bunch of friends makes a magazine called 34minus1… Megan is editor and issue 2 was published this week. Check it out here…

See you next week.