Models are utilised across an array of practices as tools of representation that make the inaccessible or absent, tangible. Often speculative in their function, and sometimes regarded as nostalgic, scale models are particularly entwined with the imagining of possible pasts and futures.

My doctoral research looked at scale models and the practice of modelling in the context of ‘Lost Futures’ (Fisher, 2014). What new insight might arise from a model ‘reactivated’ (Stoppani, 2014) beyond its original purpose?

Insights emerged from a body of experimental work responding to archive material and primary encounters with models. I also undertook residencies in a Model Railway Enthusiasts Club in Sheffield, UK, and in Christiania, an autonomous community in Denmark.

You can see my thesis and the attendant art works here