FUTURING CULTURES OF INHABITATION: the wicked home.<\/p>\n
MASTERSTUDIO ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE (MARG24 + BIAG65) FUTURING CULTURES OF HABITATION aims to provide a learning environment in which we investigate how we, collectively and individually, construct both in form and in meaning, the most \u201cbasal\u201d, the most primary concept (how we conceive of it) and the most basic act (how we make it real) of every architectural operation: (co-, in-)habitation<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Departing from everyone\u2019s individual experience, we will execute a number of exercises from which we build a collective repertoire of prototypical concepts and acts of (co-, in-)habitation. This will enable us to give a renewed meaning to habitation, in a context where we move from an industrial to an ecological era.<\/p>\n This academic year the studio is situated within the Academic Design Office The Wicked Home<\/em> and focusses on the quality of \u2018wickedness\u2019 in habitation. Wicked \u2018probably comes from the Old English wicca \u201cwitch\u201d\u2019(Dictionary, n.d.). Therefore, we embrace magic, risky, sully and flirtatious attitudes, instructive amusements and errs with that what is contingent and unpredictable in your commitment to inhabiting.<\/p>\n PHASE I: Experiencing and designing the wickedness of your home<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Week 1 \u2013 2:<\/strong> \u201cWhat and who, is my home? And what does it do when I am not around?\u201d is an individual exercise in carefully listening, looking, sensing to your home environment (whatever that may be) to detect its liveliness, its matter being active and responsive, and the co-inhabitants you had never encountered. Work from the immediate surroundings of your own immersed and experiencing body, and from this engage with the larger socio-spatial constellations. Scale 1\/1 is an important one, not only in a metrical sense but beyond that, also and eminently as an affective and social scale. Use the media you deem appropriate (video, sound, drawing, creative writing\u2026) during this two-week intense conversation with the non-human and lively creature that is your home.<\/p>\n Week 3: Week 4 \u2013 6: <\/strong>Jump at the most \u201cbasal\u201d of architecture\u2019s briefs: design your own house. You test your renewed sense of habitation in a concrete design for your own house\u2013 as the architectural expression of how to relate your body, and the other necessary bodies that participate in your well-being, to a lively environment. Scale is again an important issue and may vary from poetic interior-architectural artefacts, bodily prostheses, (super)furniture, room, building, landscape\u2026<\/p>\n PHASE II: Moving from explorative designing to prototyping<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 7 \u2013 8:<\/strong> PHASE III: Collectively prototyping wicked homes <\/strong><\/p>\n Week 9 \u2013 12: <\/strong><\/p>\n Designing prototypical elements and compose them into a wicked home, inspired by or implemented in the boat.<\/p>\n Week 13:<\/strong> Evaluation of the collective work.<\/p>\n Week 14:<\/strong> Collective reflection on the produced work during a one day conversation with invited guests. We will sit amidst the artefacts you produced and ask ourselves the questions \u2018why does it matter and why should we care?\u2019<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Academic year 2019-20<\/strong>, semester 2, Ghent
\n<\/strong>Promotors: Annelies De Smet, Jo Liekens, Nel Janssens<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u00bd day \u2013 Narrate your experience through film, sound, text, graphic novel, comic, performance or image\u2026
\n\u00bd day \u2013 workshop: cooking your own building materials (Glimpse)<\/p>\n
\n1st<\/sup> day \u2013 exhibition and evaluation of individual design work produced in the previous weeks (What makes your house a wicked home?).
\n2nd<\/sup> day \u2013 day off, to digest
\n3th<\/sup> day \u2013 extract from all individual works aspects of wickedness you find interesting to further develop.
\n4th<\/sup> day \u2013 introduction to prototyping and move to the canal boats Captal and Amundsen. Shifting from working individually to working collectively, as an academic design office.
\n5th<\/sup> day, regular studio day week 8 \u2013 present your selection of wicked aspects identified in week 7 and a first idea of how to develop them further in relation to the specificity of (the site of) the boat. From hereon, we work collectively, as a design office and will start with a staff meeting to discuss and refine the design brief, make a work planning and assign the different tasks to the participating designers (you).<\/p>\n