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'Uses
of Disorder'
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Etched,
painted and stained glass windows
The Wellcome Trust Building, The University of Dundee,
Scotland
13m
x 1200mm (x2)
Client:
The University of Dundee
Architect: Boswell, Mitchell & Johnson
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The
University of Dundee is a world authority on DNA research
and the window takes this expertise as its theme.
The design includes a background pattern created from
the DNA code letters A, C, G and T. This is bordered
by a device generated from DNA sequences.
The windows rise the full five storeys of the building
and are interspersed with images relating to the specialism
on each floor.
These images were selected through a workshop program
with the scientists at the university. Each of these
images is distorted anamorphically so as to be legible
from one point of view.
This is meant to represent the competing and often conflicting
points of view that lie at the heart of scientific debate.
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