Architecture
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WHAT SHOULD ARCHITECTURE BECOME?
The challenges of our time call for new measures, measures that are radical, responsive, and revolutionary. In an environmental clinic for the man-made environment, we want to explore these dimensions, seek the next steps on a collective journey to a sound world. We invite you on that journey through a program that will be an ongoing melting pot of experiments, knowledge, ideas from theorists, thinkers, institutions, practitioners, specialists, artists, and other contributors.
We will use Iceland and its unique context as our laboratory, sitting inside a cultural harmonic that vibrates between the local and the global.
Each studio embraces three aspects of the design process:
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Thinking Architecture explores the critical questioning of important local and global systems and the challenges, the responsibilities, and role of architecture in that context. Thinking architecture brings a diversity of thinkers and institutions into a dialogue with students and teachers for collective reading and discussion. Diverse analytical tools, design research methods and theories that are at the base of the architectural practice are being explored. Thinking Architecture provides a contextual framework that is able to feed, inform and challenge the entire design work.
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Making Architecture is about translating theories, knowledge, and suppositions into informed-informative-reactive-sensitive design work. This translation includes: writing, strategizing, story-telling, diagramming, mapping, drawing, model making, digital visualization. Making Architecture is supported by radical thinkers, professional practicing architects, specialists in the fields of the built environment and beyond.
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Engaging Architecture is a critical reflection of the studio's research work within a larger context and the translation and dissemination of the body of work towards a broader audience. This is done by exploring different media and settings as public events, exhibitions and publication series.
Each autumn semester starts with collective thematic research in studio 4 and studio 5 – Collective Research. The research relates to critical current agendas and can be a part of a larger research program. The themes chosen directs a selected line of inquiry in order to investigate and deepen understanding of a particular condition or phenomenon. Multiple lines of inquiries can be pursued, engaging in dialogue with diverse stakeholders and partners in the field. The teaching plan will orient and describe the different agendas, tasks and research processes undertaken whilst collaborative processes, individual and collective lines of inquiries pursued become further defined by students in dialogue with educators.
During the spring semesters and the Studios - Independent Propositions, the focus shifts from the collective thematic research to student’s personal projects. Students develop individual strategies and propositions of change which are supported and informed by the collective body of knowledge gained during autumn semester. Students further define their own projects regarding new insights gained during the research process in autumn. An important aspect of the independent project is for students to develop a sense of their own professional agency and spatial practice, and to build a network of agents capable of supporting the development of the design work: student learning oriented focus.