ARCH 393
Option Design Studio
About
FALL 2022
3B Design Studio
Teaching Team:
Di Tang
By looking into contemporary art practices, the mixed-media studio explores the possible ways to push architecture beyond its standardized mode and asks: when confronted with urgent contemporary cultural and socio-political challenges, how can strategies employed by artists enrich the methodological toolkit of architects?
The studio is designed to facilitate the emergence of a personalized methodological framework for each participant. Students will “distill methodologies” from the work of artists selected from a pool of candidate artists, and conduct research on contemporary topics such as migration experience, environmental injustice, social isolation in the pandemic. The studio will examine the work and writings by Sarah Sze, Ai Weiwei, Forensic Architecture, Giorgio Agamben and more. The methodological research will contribute to the major component, the individual projects. These projects involve the creation of mixed-media pieces, integrating a diverse range of media, including video, imagery, installation, sound, performance, web-based platforms, and artistic coding. The central focus of these projects is to address local cultural and socio-political issues.
Student Projects
