Marcie Moore is a lens-based practitioner who explores narrative based storytelling through everyday observations. Both digital and physical manipulation are used as key tools throughout the photographic process, injecting a sense of the digital realm within our current reality.
Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, topology, and discourses of sexuality, 'Multi-use complex' critiques the male-coded logic embedded within the Barbican’s design, revealing how conventional architectural practices can unconsciously reproduce systems of bias.
'Multi-Use Complex' documents how the original vision of Chamberlin, Powell and Bon operates not only as a physical structure but as a spatial ideology—one that continues to privilege certain bodies while subtly displacing women and minorities toward peripheral spaces.
The project interrogates the traditionalist design of the Barbican Estate as a housing complex implicitly oriented toward men. Exploring architectural standards rooted in specific bodily measurements and social assumptions surrounding gender.
Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, topology, and discourses of sexuality, it considers how spatial organisation reinforces normative ideas of gender and belonging.
