Department of
Architecture and Built Environment

Erica Hawking

The Elixircosm

Ghost Stories…Question, consider, explore and conjure… The intangible…what and where are the Ghosts?  What is implied yet so ethereal that it is beyond immediate definition yet suggests and proposes so much?  To develop an understanding of the Unit through exploratory investigations of intangible elements, which reveal/suggest proposals for further investigations and tectonic responses. 

The Elixircosm is a retreat/monastic landscape for the extraction of the psyche and the reattachment with one’s desires which lie behind the physical barrier of consciousness, within one’s unconscious dreamscape.  These desires can be used as a therapeutic tool for healing the mind within the Digital Age. 

Is technology consuming our individuality?   

Within the ruins of Bishops’ Palace, Lincoln, this project addresses this societal issue whilst working with Druid beliefs regarding natural/holistic medicines.  The consumption of legal psychedelics/elixirs will aid the manifestation of lucid dreaming by altering ones state of perception, giving access to the unconscious.

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Erica Hawking
 

Student Biography

I am Erica, an enthusiastic and creative third year Architecture student at the University of Nottingham.  My work focuses on the exploration of spatial/conceptual narratives.  My interests lie with how architecture can affect a person’s experience of a space as well as breaking the barrier between nature, interiors and exteriors. 

 

 

 

 

 

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