Instructor: Heather Bizon
Aesthetics, Environment & Architecture through Speculative Fiction
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The studio, “Past Futures: The American Rust Belt - Architecture, Environment and Aesthetics through Speculative Fictions,” will ask: How will the aesthetics of the background reality in the Rust Belt be altered in the next two decades? How do the variables in the past affect future conditions: social, political, ecological? How do these conditions affect typology, scale, and tectonics? We will consider these relationships as potential moments for discovery and innovation.
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The American Rust Belt presents a unique setting for the issues of speculation and accelerationism. Where East meetsWest, in the overlooked regions, and its neighboring geographies present uniquely American scenarios – testing beds forissues of politics, social conditions, infrastructure, and identity. The primary questions that the studio will ask for thissituation are: How will the aesthetics of the background reality in the Rust Belt be altered in the next two decades? How dothe variables in the past affect future conditions: social, political, ecological? How do these conditions affect typology, scale,and tectonics? We will consider these relationships as potential moments for discovery and innovation.
We will investigate the Past Futures of the American Rust Belt. For over four decades, the term, “Rust Belt” has been deplored, praised, and parsed. There are no natural borders, as there are with the East and West Coasts, or topographic features. Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are central to the region, as well as parts of Illinois, Wisconsin, and New York. And while the term may lack geographical strata, it has historical layers, and they are thick and evocative. The phrase isborn of loss, but has acquired texture, depth, and decades’ worth of meaning. What is extractivism in relation to the Rust Belt’s stories: the people and the environment?
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Aesthetics
It is necessary for a cultural practice such as architecture to deeply investigate questions of aesthetics. Architecture is a cultural project that contributes to a developing understanding of how tradition, environment, and identity affect our built reality: past, present and future. We will explore, and investigate through multiple mediums; both 2D and 3D.
To fully appreciate a representation, the viewer or listener must understand this ‘worlding’ aspect: an image does not simply present an object or a moment, but represents a world. Exchange is inherently essential when considering the mashup and interrogating the culture machine. The building designs will be fully represented through sets of architectural representations, based out of the initial representational exercises from the start of the semester. All forms of media are available for these speculations. The two key questions pertain to: plausibility as established through representation, and the aesthetics of realism.
To assess and manipulate the medium, you may have to cultivate a capacity to perceive in a split screen—to straddle mental partitions that separate the nominative from the active and dis-positional. You must develop something like a canine mind; you see things with names and hear humans speaking words but those things cannot be comprehended in the absence of a thousand other affective cues and relative positions between things in context.”
Process
We will take up the tactic of the Mashup and expand upon the American “melting pot”. What does combining cultural and spatial traditions andtypologies do to affect and transform our built reality?
The mashup methodology has seamlessly assumed a defining position with global cultural production. The complexity and variety of technique embedded in the mashup presents the architectural operation mixing, blending and reconfiguration of existing inputs (political, cultural, typological, social) to produce new outcomes - past, present & future. Students will work in collaboration, as well as invidual project studies to develop a semester long design project, in high resolution.
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Instructor: Heather Bizon
Aesthetics, Environment & Architecture through Speculative Fiction
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