Projects and Publications

Adrian Blackwell
Assistant Professor
416-978-0869
BES, BArch (Waterloo), MUD (Toronto)

territory = factory

Project Date: 
03/22/2005 (All day)
The factory territory that covers the eastern half of the Pearl River Delta is in constant transformation. Its apparent banality, low tech construction and repetitive typologies, form the key to its flexibility, creating the most productive light manufacturing zone in the world.

Detroit’s underdevelopment: separation > divesture > erasure > encampment

Project Date: 
01/22/2005 (All day)
This project maps the relationships between social forces and physical spaces in the city of Detroit. It spatializes recent writing by Thomas Sugrue (The Origins of the Urban Crisis) and June Manning Thomas (Race and Redevelopment).

Evicted May 1, 2000 (9 Hanna Ave.)

Project Date: 
11/22/2004 (All day)
A camera is a small room into which light enters through an aperture. These photographs are made using a pinhole camera that is a scale model of the room it is intended to photograph.

Model for a Public Space

Project Date: 
07/22/2004 - 02:00
Model for a Public Space responds to my experience with non-hierarchical meeting forms at Toronto’s Anarchist Free School. In its classes ideas were discussed, and decisions were made by consensus between individuals talking together with one another in a circle.

Public Water Closet

Project Date: 
01/22/2004 (All day)
Public water closet (PWC) diverts the basic function of the two-way mirror, which is to provide systems of power a safe location from which to survey a population to be controlled.