Jan Laming
Architecture MA
Manchester Metropolitan University
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Architecture / Film / Printmaking
My location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Jan Laming
First Name: Jan
Last Name: Laming
University / College: Manchester Metropolitan University
Course / Program: Architecture MA
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Architecture / Film / Printmaking
My Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
About
Jan Laming (b.1998)Part II Architectural Assistant, graduated from the Manchester School of Architecture in 2023 with distinction. Winner of the Steacy-Greenaway Portfolio Prize, the U+I LandSec Student Design Award, and the MSA International 'Best Narrative' Film Award. Also shortlisted for the Jicwood Prize.Prior to this, a first-class graduate of the Leicester School of Architecture (2019), and two years of experience at Sheppard Robson Architects, London.Primary interests involve architecture with spiritual qualities, sacred spaces, and egalitarian design. The impact of theology, history, and time fascinate me.I favour analogue methodologies, almost exclusively hand-drawing both my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Cross-disciplinary areas of interest include creative writing, painting, photography, print-making, and film-making, as well as broader interests in teaching and academia.
Mayfield, Manchester, is currently an archipelago - a series of fragments acting only as the ruins of a disappearing past. However, these disparate pieces contain within them both intense atmospheric qualities and the roots of once-powerful voices; both of which can be utilised to great effect. By looking to the historic local forces of Quakerism, Chartism, and the Temperance Movement, we discover a way to create small-scale urban acupunctures of voice unified by their shared theme of egalitarianism. Through a process of iterative urbanism, these sites shall emanate into the city and help provide the urban realm with much needed centres of rhetoric, dialogue, and congregation in an otherwise voiceless world. This thesis serves to propose an analogue realm of voice; a direct counter to the all-pervasive digital realm which yields little but apathy in relation to individual voices being heard.