Hooke Park

11–2022 

In November, as the last of the summer leaves were falling, Inter 7 travelled to Hook Park in Dorset for our 2022 Autumn workshop. 

We stayed in a building designed by the late Ted Cullinan, Westminster Lodge, which is set out around a large living room.
In the evenings we turned this into our own cinema watching Powell and Pressburger’s ‘A Matter of Life and Death’ (1946) and ‘Lost in Translation’ (2003) by Sofia Coppola. 





Over the week the students developed their own strategies to intervene in the forrest of Hooke. Each project was highly unique as the strategy evolved from their perticular interests.






The week culminated in a ‘midnight jury’ in the woods. As a group we walked through the pitch black, navigating with the help of each other and the LED lights from our mobile phones.

The jury fell on the evening of the 5th of November, so we felt it was only fitting to launch some fireworks. We launched a single rocket to mark the beginning and the end of the jury.

The fireworks were painted and written on them, in black ink, were two four word peoms: 

earth wind fire water
nothing will last forever

The second rocket was launched at 00:00 on the 6th November. 




















Lei (Ray) Zhang formed connections between the root systems of upturned trees and their fallen branches.




Sedef Cavcav built a tool to replicate the circumference of a tree before installing a rain mirror.




Anastasia Pavlushin fragmented a perspective device to emphasise the tree corridors found in the south of the forrest.




Yuchen (Jack) Wu built the ‘Jack Webb telescope’.





Yu (Victoria) Hua built a breathing monster.