Archive for April 2009
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Pestival wins two prestigious awards
Fantastic news: Pestival has won not 1 but 2 awards! We are the privileged winners of the Wellcome Trust’s Peoples award for our ‘Bee Social’ project to be launched in May this year – watch this space… We are indebted to Wellcome Trust for their support with the Pestival 2009. www.wellcome.ac.ukMeanwhile, our Termite inspired ‘Tower of Life’ Project won the Special Award from The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. We would like to thank the commissioners for believing in this ambitious and unique project. www.royalcommission1851.org.uk
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Party time for underwater insects
Parisian artist Suisse Marocain has been conceiving the Southbank Centre through the eyes of underwater insects. In anticipation of Pestival this September “when the Thames water insects will have a party”. -
‘Tower of Life’ project is underway
A working lunch as engineer Dr. Rupert Soar shows Nicky Kirk and Chris Bagot (Softroom Architects) the internal workings of a termite mound. Good to see the ‘Tower of Life’ project is well underway. The unveiling of this insect-inspired architectural piece will take place at Pestival 2009 at the Southbank Centre. -
Resonance FM explores the world of termites
Resonance104.4fm’s impulsive Seth Pimlott flew to Namibia last month to help Dr Rupert Soar research the architecture of termite mounds. Rupert’s team made a cast of a mound, the upper section of which Seth was tasked with cleaning: painstaking and dirty work – but someone has to do it and who better than an 18 year old?Now back in London, Seth is editing the audio he gathered for a special radio programme about his time with the termites which will be broadcast on Resonance in late April.
