The Fenton Five

Welcome to 'The Fenton Five' a research blog produced by BArch students in the [Re_Map]ICU unit at the Manchester School of Architecture to document the Fenton area of Stoke-on-Trent. The unit aims to become the 'leading authority' on Stoke-on-Trent and has set about documenting the six principle areas that comprise the city. As a unit [Re_Map] is preoccupied with data, mapping, networks and visualization and is interested in the contemporary city as a political, economic and cultural hybrid in flux rather than as a fixed place.

This blog will also document ongoing research into pyschogeography and other mapping techniques that will form the basis for the first project conducted by the unit Data  Definition within the Dérive. As part of the project The Fenton Five (and other [Re_Map]ICU project groups) will investigate the architectural ramifications of 'wandering' in the city and landscape. Whereas Guy Debord and the SI (Situationist International) were content to simply execute these experiments, the unit is interested in their conception, their record and most specifically, their translation into form that has a geo-spatial context. The unit is interested in the convergence of mapping, GPS, data and sensation in three-dimensional and locational space.