DC+CMI

In the post-industrial era, design does not necessarily originate from professional creators (architects, designers) neither does it relate to a specific market (e.g. fashion), or a specific production (industrial design or product). Nowadays, social transformations require the possibility of experimental and interdisciplinary bottom-up answers to a multitude of ques-tions (Spielmann & Bahtsetzis, 2013).

Based on this description of the post-industrial condition, the workshop introduces stu-dents to the principles of designing objects (spring semester) and space (fall semester). More specifically, architectural design focuses on the area of exhibition spaces (open and closed), as they are now defined as vehicles of meaning. The course introduces students to basic design principles such as scale, representation, accessibility, and the closed-open re-lationship. The lessons are organized through the following modules:

• Model Construction (scale, material representation and aura).
• View (Representation/symbolism/relation of outside to inside)
• External space (relationship between built/unbuilt/environment)
• Access (Relationship of movement and stance)
• The museum of one object.
  
  
  Syllabus