COURSE STRUCTURE

In this semester we invite you to join the design studio of the new Professorship of Architecture and Design – AND. We have designed a platform which allows students, three guests, and us  to start an open process on the theme of Co-Creating Spatial Practice. In this experimental project we are especially attentive to your interests, input, and ideas in formulating a common narrative.

We investigate the design studios theme in five fields: TOOLS, CRAFT, PRACTICE, FABRIC, and MEDIA. The first five weeks of the semester are dedicated to intensive workshops, research, readings and discussions. After this phase, we will form smaller groups to elaborate each field and to develop individual manifestos and spatial practices. In consistent communication with the other groups, we aim to co-create a final event where all groups will perform a collective spatial practice.

The field of TOOLS investigates current and past groups and individuals who expanded the notion of architecture. This includes approaches like Lucius Burckhardt’s Strollology, the UK-based Artist Placement Group, or even the approach of creative designer Virgil Abloh. Our set of spatial tools will allow us to organize and host events as the creation of semi-public gatherings during the semester.

Together with the industrial designer Maciej Chmara, the field of CRAFT we will explore the making of wood joints and  draw everyday spatial observations. We will manufacture unique furniture for spatial rituals of commoning by making use of the schools workshops.

In the field of PRACTICE we will interview practitioners, policy makers, curators, and scientists about their vision for the future of architecture and design professions. This knowledge forms a catalogue for the broadcasting of our knowledge.

We team up with textile artist Anne Marx to explore FABRIC, understood as a spatial object, or simple workwear. What are we wearing when co-creating spatial patterns? Can a piece of cloth become the context for our spatial interventions?

And finally, our design studio acknowledges that everyday life and our behaviours are deeply influenced by the space create by different forms of MEDIA. So together with media and graphic designer Enno Pötschke we create digital artefacts, linking the physical with the imaginative world and vice versa.
 

FRAMEWORK BY

Prof. Niklas Fanelsa, Victoria Schweyer, Jana Wunderlich
Maciej Chmara, Vienna/Berlin
Anne Marx, Weimar
Enno Pötschke, Berlin