Architecture (MA)

Introduction

As the world slouches toward neverending crisis, it has become increasingly difficult to identify the terms for architecture’s role and agency. Projects need to foster new definitions of an architect’s role and responsibility, formed through concepts of bio-regionality, intergenerationality, intersectionality, and commonality. To work no longer in service, but rather work with, in aid of, advocating with, aligned to, and caring for sites, communities, materials, creatures and everything in between.

Global events remind us of our commitment to design, together with the need to be dexterous with materials, management, maintenance, and care. In response to the contemporary precarity, our students have occupied the studio with more mess, clutter, and muck than ever before. Always renegotiating the framework of their practice by making, digging, bathing, dining, chatting, filming, testing, talking, and walking. They bore a deep commitment to field work, testing in 1:1, experiments and failures, picking posies, renting warehouses, growing mushrooms, holding hands, cutting trees, pressing bricks, moulding plastic, dancing, performing, catching trains, crossing boundaries, building kites, hitchhiking, planting, weeding, welding, and stitching.

Instead of speculating on alternative futures, future predictions, or models of probability, these projects seek to illustrate how these students attempted to go beyond convention; designing proposals that envisage new forms, typologies, and possibilities, drawing new lines that do not enclose and separate, but rather connect and join.

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