Abstract
The presentation is focused on the experience developed in the first-year studio during the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected
the teaching strategies, tools (iPad, Zoom, Miro), and spaces to work: not anymore the studio, but the domestic environment. In
this context, students explored and revealed the potential for design hidden in their everyday life.
1. THE MASK: IDENTITY AND PROTECTION
The first assignment has been an investigation on the theme of the mask, with clear reference to the device that since the pandemic
has become a common object of our everyday life. The intention has been to reinvent the mask as a wearable device with the
purpose of protection (in its widest interpretation) and representation of identity.
2. STILL LIFE AND ARCHITECTURAL SPACE
The project was focused on the discovery of the design and special potential of the “banal” of everyday objects. Using as
precedents the still life compositions of Morandi, Jeanneret, Rossi, and the teaching strategies of Kandinsky at the Bauhaus,
students had to compose a series of still lives, using objects of their domestic everyday experience. These have been drawn and
analyzed, discovering their latent and hidden design potential. Students then translated/transfigured//transformed the objects into
an architectural space, made of interior and exterior spaces, with connections, openings, paths, architectural events.
3. FOLDED SPACES AND PLANAR COMPOSITION
Using a “banal” sheet of paper, the final assignment was based on the planar composition of space, going beyond the idea of
space as “enclosed room”, and using the folded plane to generate form and space that is implied rather than enclosed, with
continuities between elements that allows spaces to bleed into one another. Relying on precedents such as De Koming’s,
Umemoto’s, and Munari’s work and through intentional cutting and folding strategies, students were able to design a pavilion in an
archaeological site.
the teaching strategies, tools (iPad, Zoom, Miro), and spaces to work: not anymore the studio, but the domestic environment. In
this context, students explored and revealed the potential for design hidden in their everyday life.
1. THE MASK: IDENTITY AND PROTECTION
The first assignment has been an investigation on the theme of the mask, with clear reference to the device that since the pandemic
has become a common object of our everyday life. The intention has been to reinvent the mask as a wearable device with the
purpose of protection (in its widest interpretation) and representation of identity.
2. STILL LIFE AND ARCHITECTURAL SPACE
The project was focused on the discovery of the design and special potential of the “banal” of everyday objects. Using as
precedents the still life compositions of Morandi, Jeanneret, Rossi, and the teaching strategies of Kandinsky at the Bauhaus,
students had to compose a series of still lives, using objects of their domestic everyday experience. These have been drawn and
analyzed, discovering their latent and hidden design potential. Students then translated/transfigured//transformed the objects into
an architectural space, made of interior and exterior spaces, with connections, openings, paths, architectural events.
3. FOLDED SPACES AND PLANAR COMPOSITION
Using a “banal” sheet of paper, the final assignment was based on the planar composition of space, going beyond the idea of
space as “enclosed room”, and using the folded plane to generate form and space that is implied rather than enclosed, with
continuities between elements that allows spaces to bleed into one another. Relying on precedents such as De Koming’s,
Umemoto’s, and Munari’s work and through intentional cutting and folding strategies, students were able to design a pavilion in an
archaeological site.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | NCBDS 37 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Conference Proceeding from the 37th Conference on the Beginning Design Student |
| Editors | Kristin Barry, Sean Burns |
| Publisher | Lulu Press Inc. |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781458301659 |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Mar 2022 |
| Event | 37th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student - Ball State University, Muncie, United States Duration: 1 Apr 2022 → 2 Apr 2022 https://sites.bsu.edu/ncbds37/ |
Conference
| Conference | 37th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated title | NCBDS 37 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Muncie |
| Period | 1/04/22 → 2/04/22 |
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