Dreams and reality, ghosts and monsters
, the invisible and visible; these are the realms we will occupy, more
specifically described as the commons…from the margins. The commons are grounds of shared ownership,
decommissioned through occupation. The occupants have invented new relations; they have thought, they have
created. This is a place where we breathe a different air, where we learn things of real meaning. This studio
transgresses disciplinary boundaries to the trouble, to work collectively in the mess, down to earth, shifting
paradigms to defined disrupted ecologies of conquerors and corporations. We will rouse the somnambulists
and detangle knots with ecologists, anthropologists, poets, writers, dreamers, activists, tool-users, genderbenders, and others interested and committed. We will meet in the commons…from the margins, digging into
sites of the new normal, to construct stories, add and remove knots in the strings, change the pots, clean the
soil, and take care.
The structure of the architecture studio makes a radical shift from project-to research-based studio. There will be sites, programs, and interventions. Conversation, debate, and writing will join the thirteen-week drawing and the rest of the pets of architecture design process. We must pay attention: no remembering to forget, no Claude glass, and no rose-colored glasses.
