Publications and Research
Writing Exploring Design, Culture, Nature and Society
Explore selected articles, research papers and talks by Mark Titman.
Mark’s writing examines the relationship between people, homes, nature, technology and the built environment. His work combines creative thinking with research into how design can support changing lifestyles, stronger communities and more meaningful connections with the world around us.
Stretch City
Published in Architectural Design
Stretch City explores the relationship between individual experience and the wider city.
As design becomes increasingly focused on personal, detailed and previously invisible concerns, these individual experiences become connected to broader social and cultural questions.
The New Pastoralists: Landscape into Architecture
Leading Article for AD
The New Pastoralists considers how nature, landscape and human experience can influence contemporary design.
Written during a period of environmental concern, information overload and changing lifestyles, the article explores how pastoral ideas could help connect apparently opposing forces such as city and countryside, technology and nature, and practical needs and human delight.
The Evolution of the English Household with Older People
This research paper formed part of a three-stage project examining the development of the English home from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.
The research explores how well-designed housing could better support older people and encourage wider discussion about the future of homes in England.
As a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, Mark contributed to work surrounding Lifetime Homes principles, presented ideas to European accessibility and older people’s care groups in The Hague, and liaised with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
'Sustainable Dullness and Constructive Pastoral Delight'
We are all trying to save the planet in the 21st Century but how do we do it without becoming too dull? This seems to be the question we should be asking today
Optimism, Power and Concern in an Age of Apocalypse
As technology becomes increasingly present in everyday life, environmental responsibility requires more than reducing energy use.
This article explores how design can help us maintain meaningful relationships with people, nature and even the machines that increasingly shape our lives.
Weekends in the Countryside
Compendium Magazine
Time spent away from London offers an opportunity to reconnect with a more physical, immediate experience of landscape, nature and everyday life.
A.D. 'Architects in Cyberspace
Article by M. Titman.
This article by Mark Titman explores cyberspace, virtual environments and the changing relationship between technology, design and physical experience.
Mark Titman - Green Forum 2011
A talk by Mark Titman exploring the relationship between nature and modern design, including how environmental thinking can create spaces that are both responsible and enjoyable.