Friday, December 15, 2006
Next Semester
What kind of thought has been made about how our class will be structured next semester? Just to put my personal opinion out there, I found the frequent in-class pin-ups/discussions to be fruitful and would like to see this practice continue into next semester. How do other people feel about this?
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I agree, pin-up with group discussion is the most efficient use of our time. It helps bring the entire class into each project, and although not much was said from anyone other than the professors, next semester we should be much more active in the discussions.
the pin-ups were definately helpful...
maybe not every single class, but I think they push production in a helpful way...
i agree about not pinning up every class, but more often than every few weeks as most studios usually operate
"What kind of thought has been made about how our class will be structured next semester? "
You should all know that Marc and I have asked ourselfs the same question. I don't want to speak for Mark. I can guess that your suggestions about the class crits you would please him as well as me.
We expect regualr and consistent work frpm you and that means an opportunity for each student to have that work reviewed in a timely crit. We should establish a pattern of crit schedule so that each student knows in advance when they will get a class crit. Lets say every other week if that works out.
We will develop such a schedule.
I ahve more to say but will do it later today..
Dear All:
I have been wandering myself how we should proceed next semester, as it seems some of you have also done(see recent blog entries).
I thought that the final review discussions were very helpful and better that the work on the wall or your verbal presentations. Be that as it may…. I hope you all can mine and extract from it as much improved as possible a theoretical frame (whatever that means) for your projects. WE, Mark and I can help there!
I came away thinking that the topic of “ Synaesthesia” is both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ as a topic for thesis. Good because it forces us to re-focus, yet again, and more directly, on to the sensorial content of the ‘architectural event’ , the phenomenology of it, as opposed to (the’ bad’) the “conceptual” content (for the lack of a better word), the semantic narrative, the functional program and the ‘symbolic’ content of the architectural form.
We exist in both !!!! The stress on the ‘sensorial content’, in our case on the ‘synaestetic experience’ of an associative cross modasl event, or in other words. What we refer to as lived “reality” is only a pedagogical temporary strategy to counter what goes on in the school as a whole.
Because of this line of argument as proposed above, and because of a few things people said during the final review, I would like to make a proposal for how to start next term.
Two significant things wher hinted at for next semester,
Someone said to Alex, that for the next step a good model would be the “ first year cube”. That, to my mind, is a return to full scale, body in space experience. I agree for two reasons:
1. “body in space” is the ontological (look up the word) human experience of abstract space. That is also full scale where all experience is first hand not as a second hand representation.
2. “Synaestesia” (the crossing of modal sensory activity) CAN NOT BE REPRESENTED,
It can only be exemplified, manifested in a “full scale ”multi-media installation”, as all of you should research a lot in avangarde art installations in the XXth Century.
So, I feel, that a good way to start the next semester is with a full scale installation proposal in a corner of HH (any where as long as it is in the bldg), aimed at a full scale live demonstration, tactile, visual, sound and taste, drawings, models, smells, time and memory) of a detail in your uture project as now envisioned. That in a way is a recall of the great staff that many of you build last semester. By going full scale construction for all ., I hope we are building on the obvious strength of many of you, but with a much clearer set of artistic and conceptual intentions, whatever those words mean today. All that was said in several suggestions for us, as a group to learn more from avant-garde art installations of the last 40 years.
That is not to undermine the equally important task for you, the student, in developing at the same time a set of drawings and site models of the proposed thesis project…Known as the SITE DOCUMENTATION..these are critical for all of you to get a fast start in design next semester, while you are designing a very small part of it. The big picture matters…while you are designing a small part of it.
I would welcome any help or suggestions about this general question:
Given the state of the studio production and culture (group attitude) to date,and knowing the strengths and weaknesses of the student body in our group, how can we plan and strategize for a really strong Spring studio. That is what Mark and I are wandering!
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