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Cosmists by nature are interested in the unseen, therefore in radiation, so the radio waves  emitted by TV towers seemed an appropriate line of inquiry. Stevenage has become a satellite town to London as has always been expected despite the town  being designed to be a hub of industry in its own right. The town has suffered from a lack of  investment in its centre as people are drawn away to the metropolis. This has led to a distrust  of institutions amongst locals due to the overwhelming amount of mis-information being spread by the mass of media outlets. The project is a polemic solution to propagate one media outlet from one source, a Fernsehturm for Stevenage.

Watching television we watch as individuals unlike the collective of cinema, but, if everyone is  watching the same recording the sphere of influence of the TV tower becomes the theatre.   I have proposed a canopy beneath the tower which is similarly modulated by radiation, however, it is reflective of the tower’s output, progressing at the average wavelength of radio waves. The canopy is a physical manifestation of the work which occurs beneath it, between scientists  working on technologies which further the cosmists reach physically or the artists who further the  reach culturally. Increasing the sphere of influence of the ideology. Becoming a ministry of truth.  The structure of the canopy ends at a naked edge alluding to a continuation of the waves, however, the grid of the chessboard which the eatery pawns were laid on remains in the form of a  service grid at the datum of the wave’s equilibrium.