Mars Pants postcard design
Katja Hock postcard
Bosscopter postcard
Recliner postcard
The exhibition at The Architecture Foundation
The exhibition at The Architecture Foundation
The exhibition at The Architecture Foundation
The exhibition at The Architecture Foundation
The exhibition at The Architecture Foundation
The exhibition at The Architecture Foundation
Mars Pants was a collaborative exhibition between Katja Hock (photographer), Neil Leach (cultural theorist) and Team S - Nicola Worton & Oliver Froome-Lewis (architects). The exhibition juxtaposed photographs of "the city as it is" with design projects for "the city as it could be" with visions of how we could be living, working, travelling and relaxing in the future. It explored covert histories, temporal distortions and animated lives.
Katja Hock's images offered a telling account of contemporary urban existence, exploring the covert histories of mundane objects, hinting at humour and signals of habitation struggling to emerge from an otherwise bleak city. Neil Leach, author and editor of several books including 'Millennium Culture' and 'The Anaesthetics of Architecture', described the subtle shifts and developments in contemporary British culture - the conditions from which the Mars Pants vision emerged. Nicola Worton and Oliver Froome-Lewis, prize winners in Europan 5 (Finland) and RIBA Living Sites, presented designs for the future-present, imagining and narrating the lives of potential inhabitants.