‘6000 Miles’
The exhibition ‘6000 miles’ ran at the Lighthouse Gallery in Glasgow from March to June 2005 and was developed along with graphic designers Tristan and Justine Dellaway.
The project examined the six thousand miles of Scottish coastline, focusing upon the paradoxical relationship between human settlement and water. Five architectural practices, including Block, were invited to propose coastal machines in response to the changing social and environmental processes shaping Scotland’s coastal regions in the next fifty years.
The exhibition vehicle became a jetty structure introduced into the gallery space off which the contributors’ work was ‘moored’. The proposals were offset by a series of projected films by Emily Richardson titled Petrolia which examined drilling and refinery sites around Scotland.
