Studio MA2 (Bedir)

Summary

This studio aims for designing interventions, programs, spaces; and proposing modes of collectivity and instituting for the inhabitation of human and more than human agencies in sites across Switzerland, where water cycles entangle with post Anthropocene landscapes.

Content

Keywords

agency, commons, collective intelligence, infrastructure, repair

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

• Investigate Research a selected site collectively, with a self-developed attitude, across the different scales that produce that site.
• Identify Identify issues and possible points of intervention.
• Synthesize Synthesise the group work into visions and ideas for a site.
• Design Design with commons towards repairing the social and ecological context.
• Interpret Expand the use of tools, methods and technologies from other fields into architecture.
• Propose Propose innovative ways of communicating design concepts.
• Assess / Evaluate Assess/evaluate the ways in which built environment respond to and shape cultural and environmental values. Examine the broad implications of architecture and the city on natural and built environments, both situated and planetary.
• Recognize Recognize architecture as an ongoing process, not as a product.

Teaching methods

Methodology:

Landscape theory, more than human anthropology, patchwork ethnography, media ecology, social and geo design.

Methods:

Field work / witnessing and reproduction: Multiscalar drawings, assemblages, model making, video making, conversation, poetry, performance

Where is here / where is there: How to deal with a site that we are not directly embedded in: Zooming in / out to the matter and cosmos

Black boxes of information: Dissecting, repeating, embracing

Intensive engagements: Learning with case studies, conversation and exchange sessions, discussions, lectures

Workshops: Collective work mode, creating installations and assembling the project

Methods of review

Focused reviews: 1-1 reviews with participants, focused on specific questions

Peer reviews: Studio participants reviewing each other's work

Rehearsals: Preparing for final presentations

Expected student activities

Collaborations across teams.

Peer reviewing each other's work.

Self-organizing site visits.

Preparing collective exhibition with projects.

Assessment methods

Assessment is based on both individual and collaborative work and considers each participant's evolution and progress throughout the term. Evaluation is based on the following criteria.

Knowledge: Complexity, expand/depth and engagement of critical (design) research and analysis.

Vision: Development of vision based on the understanding of context, research synthesis informing design, development of attitude and position towards design project.

Proposition: Maturity of the project, experimenting and performative evaluation of possibilities in relation to parameters and priorities.

Process: Commitment to the studio throughout the semester, collaboration in teamwork.

Communication: Presentation and communication, articulation of criticality, communication of intention, context, arguments to the constituents.

Supervision

Resources

Moodle Link

• https://go.epfl.ch/AR-402_aq