You are not made of sugar
2025, Installation
Credits:
The project was made by Andrey Chugunov and Bobby Jewell.
The project was presented at 25 Prince Edward Street between 7 and 15 June 2025 as part of the Architecture Fringe Festival in Glasgow.
The project was presented at 25 Prince Edward Street between 7 and 15 June 2025 as part of the Architecture Fringe Festival in Glasgow.
Used media:
10.1-channel sound (2-level quadrophonic sound, 2 additional channels, subwoofer), sustainable urban drainage system.
Description:
'You Are Not Made of Sugar' is a collaborative exhibition by Andrey Chugunov and Bobby Jewell, presented at 25 Prince Edwards Street, Govanhill, as part of the Architecture Fringe Festival 2025.
Combining an immersive multichannel sound installation with a small-scale infrastructure intervention, the exhibition examines how people live with, navigate, and respond to rain in Glasgow, the UK's rainiest city. Drawing on Dr Andrew Hoolachan's research Living with Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, the project explores rain as an embodied, everyday experience that shapes movement, clothing, public space, transport, and emotional responses, while revealing broader questions of urban resilience and environmental change.
The title, You Are Not Made of Sugar, translates the German expression 'Du bist doch nicht aus Zucker', a phrase encouraging people not to avoid going outside simply because it is raining. Rather than celebrating rain or proposing technological solutions alone, the exhibition considers how adapting to increasingly wet and unpredictable weather requires not only resilient infrastructure but also shifts in everyday habits, perceptions, and collective imagination.
At the centre of the exhibition is a continuously evolving multichannel sound composition created by Andrey Chugunov using field recordings collected across Glasgow. Moving between subtle ambient textures and intense downpours, the installation reflects the changing character of rainfall and invites visitors to experience rain as a dynamic environmental condition rather than a static background. Alongside the sound work, Bobby Jewell's Sustainable Urban Drainage System installation introduces a living landscape element that foregrounds ecological approaches to managing urban water.
Together, the two installations create an environment where sound, landscape, and architecture intersect, encouraging visitors to reconsider their relationship with rain as both an everyday phenomenon and a defining condition of Glasgow's present and future climate.
Combining an immersive multichannel sound installation with a small-scale infrastructure intervention, the exhibition examines how people live with, navigate, and respond to rain in Glasgow, the UK's rainiest city. Drawing on Dr Andrew Hoolachan's research Living with Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, the project explores rain as an embodied, everyday experience that shapes movement, clothing, public space, transport, and emotional responses, while revealing broader questions of urban resilience and environmental change.
The title, You Are Not Made of Sugar, translates the German expression 'Du bist doch nicht aus Zucker', a phrase encouraging people not to avoid going outside simply because it is raining. Rather than celebrating rain or proposing technological solutions alone, the exhibition considers how adapting to increasingly wet and unpredictable weather requires not only resilient infrastructure but also shifts in everyday habits, perceptions, and collective imagination.
At the centre of the exhibition is a continuously evolving multichannel sound composition created by Andrey Chugunov using field recordings collected across Glasgow. Moving between subtle ambient textures and intense downpours, the installation reflects the changing character of rainfall and invites visitors to experience rain as a dynamic environmental condition rather than a static background. Alongside the sound work, Bobby Jewell's Sustainable Urban Drainage System installation introduces a living landscape element that foregrounds ecological approaches to managing urban water.
Together, the two installations create an environment where sound, landscape, and architecture intersect, encouraging visitors to reconsider their relationship with rain as both an everyday phenomenon and a defining condition of Glasgow's present and future climate.