KNOXVILLE SUPERMODELS
UT Knoxville CoAD
Summer 2014: Session 1
Summer 2014: Session 1
May 29 – July 3, 2014
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T, W, Th (9am – 4pm)
KNOXVILLE SUPERMODELS is a spatial exploration
fundamentally aimed at the future city. Setting
out to inject high levels of architectural imagination and experimentation into
untapped territories within the urban / infrastructural / industrial fabrics of
Knoxville, this studio is tasked to cultivate spatial potentials that point to
futures which are yet to be imagined. Utilizing
design agility as our prime mode of investigation, we will navigate a multitude
of operational modes in an effort to cultivate questions which would otherwise
not be considered and develop architectural evidence that constructively points
to spatial futures not yet imagined for the city. The mission of this experimental studio is
not to solve problems, or to “get it right”, but rather to identify, invent,
suggest, cultivate, refine, develop and broadcast versions of an architectural
imagination for Knoxville in the myriad ways that only such a studio set-up can
possibly deliver. We will strive to expand
notions of context beyond the default approach that accepts the city as it is
from the outset, and shift to a working mindset that gains its thrust by iteratively
considering what could be. In this
sense, we will utilize improbable territories and projective socio-cultural
questions to fuel architectural operations that culminate in new spatial,
programmatic, industrial, material, structural and / or cultural configurations
and / or typologies.
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