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Research Questions Programing & Design by:  Freezone - 1998
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 This web site has been designed as an interactive exhibition space for the Free Zone work base within the Hull School of Architecture. Selected work will be posted on a regular basis as the projects progress through the academic year. Any feedback on our work, or work of a similar nature being researched by yourselves would be much appreciated. Contact Nick Wilde (e-mail link at the bottom of web pages). Free Zone is a design and research group that studies the culture and technical conditions that could begin to re-define architecture in this post-modern era of fragmentation and uncertainty. Free Zone studies cultural activities outside and in margins of the dominant institutions of family, work, education and religion. Here, in the spaces between, individuals are developing multiple identities and the artefacts and enviroments to support them. They are developing post-modern institutions of fashion, shopping, leisure, tourism and media culture. Architects' responses to post-modern conditions have moved beyond despair, nostalgia or anti-architecture. Their resistance to the commodification and alienation that are inherent in global capitalism is expressed in texts, projects and a few built projects. Resistance aims, firstly, to reveal and criticise the power relationships that are expressed in the design of environments. Secondly, it aims to design environments of resistance that promote individual control of identity and communal control of cultural conditions. Our interest in this area has developed out of staff research, themes expressed in the Coast Wise Europe project and the E20 Juggernaut masterclass. In the work of students and tutors, we observe creative responses to the tension between the forces of anarchy and order. It is upon these foundations that we aim to build.
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