Courses
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MDes Open Project: Forms of Assembly. All Things Considered
“When bodies congregate, move, and speak together, they lay claim to a certain space as public space.” – Judith Butler. In the public space, we…
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MDes Open Project: O(perating)S(ystem)1.1
Illumination is hard wired. Lighting networks require electric grids, digital chips, insulated conduit. Material infrastructure allows for immaterial transmission. Illumination blurs a building’s boundaries, creating…
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MDes Open Project: Physical Realms Synthetic Realities
This OP explores the notion of reality and authenticity of experiences in the built environment through the lens of current emergent technologies. By harnessing emergent…
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MDes Open Project: Experimental Infrastructures
Infrastructure is an encompassing and promiscuous term that has been enjoying a renaissance in design, the social sciences, and public discourse. We are inundated by…
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MDes Open Project: Framing Regenerative Futures
Framing Regenerative Futures is a platform to critically examine contemporary challenges to settlement and society and then, in collective and individual work, to create imaginative…
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MDes Open Project: Revisiting the Space of Appearance, the Implication of the “Self”
In considering the social dimension of space, the designer, (architect, landscape architect, urban designer, artist) is called to engage reality in all its messiness, indeterminacy…
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MDes Open Project: Communicating Climate – Representing Risk
In contemporary practice, designers are often called upon to visualize the implications of and potential responses to climate adaptation on behalf of individuals and institutions,…