This studio engages with the question of how people appropriate their surroundings in the private and public sphere. By means of built interventions and collective activities, we investigate the space in its proportions and dimensions from the intimate bedroom to the public square. How do we challenge, appropriate, adopt and intervene in this world ?
We will test these questions in 1:1 prototypes and work on how we can transform our imagination into real life. By analysing the 1:1 draft collectively, we challenge what is common perception and what is individual assumption.
LA VITA È BELLA is the joint attempt to explore design processes. As a collective we face the discomfort of the unknown and map out a critical version of a possible future based on the students’ desires. To carry out this research we build prototypes, we walk through the city, we sleep in unknown rooms.Through sketching, walking, talking and building we acquire knowledge and uncover new potentials and perspectives, which are directly tested in practice through the 1:1 prototype.
BUILDING 1:1
With interventions in 1:1, we design on-site prototypes. This methodology results in a dynamic design and continuous testing and leads to a refined concept based on real life. The potential of the prototype lies in the immediate experience of a spatial concept. Thinking in the prototype as an idea floats between building and model, reality and representation and calls for a spontaneous but detailed approach.
WALKING RESEARCH
Urban initiatives organised by students for students highlight individual interests in the city and landscape. It is a means to start a dialogue inside the group and with the territory we live in.
CRITICAL DIALOGUE
The Studio investigates the idea of collective learning and questioning as a design process. The environment affects our perception, which we express verbally and via other medias.The collision of different interests creates a versatile, shared memory. Through the receptivity of learning from others and the erasure of personal authorship, unforeseeable, surprising and positively weird things are possible. The relationship between design authorship and urban appropriation is to be questioned. We transform spaces, question practices and cultivate the dialogue.
Every student spends a week in the bedrooms of fellow students.
- Professor: Luigia Francesca Eléni Caputo
- Professor: Sarah Katrin Brigga Kueng
- Teacher: Michelle Sara Geilinger