Stage 6 | Cultural Assemblages: Architecture as Social Phenomenon
Stage 6 Thesis Studio ARC8060-8067 Elizabeth Baldwin Gray Cultural Assemblages: Architecture as Social Phenomenon Designing an intervention which responds to and facilitates an encounter with an unseen social element of change in the city. You have the choice of engaging with Vienna again, or choosing another city you can easily visit on your own.
Delta Proposal by Anthony Fontenot and Jakob Rosenszweig
Examples of Contemporary Social Phenomena which demand a change in what a civic building is and how it facilitates social interaction in the space of the city: • • • • • •
Digital Library / the democratization of knowledge via the internet, open-access books Online Shopping and the impending death of the High Street Virtual Choirs and Music Groups which meet, practice, and perform via YouTube. Museums for non-visual Art / Art that engages the senses Reduce, Reuse, Recycling Zero-Waste Centre Local Food Market / Farm to Table Restaurants
Although these contemporary social phenomena demand a new kind of civic building, the very idea of a cultural building as civic ‘centre’ should be considered. It could be that instead of a centralised building, you might design a series of interventions throughout the city that together, as an architectural assemblage, make up this new civic space of encounter. Stage 6 Studio: In this studio we will focus on tracing the making and unmaking of assemblages, collectivities made up of interactive components comprising some combination of people, places, practices and objects. Originally inspired by the work of influential French theorists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattariand later made more coherent and highly accessible by Mexican 1