Urban Voids as Artifact:The Commons and Collectivity (ARTS 3304 R)
Term: 2023-24 Academic Year Spring
Schedule
Tue-Fri, 11:05 AM - 1:30 PM (1/24/2024 - 5/7/2024) Location: SLC HEIM 213
Fri, 11:05 AM - 1:30 PM (1/24/2024 - 5/7/2024) Location: SLC HEIM 209A
Description
Defined by Ignacio Sola Morales as land in its exploitable state, urban voids have been a topic of discussion for quite some time. This course aims to reexamine the notion of the void not as land ripe for building real estate capital but, rather, as space for cultural expression. Students are given a list of different voids—infrastructural areas, parks, empty/unused buildings, and land that has transformed many times over with histories of erasure and dispossession. Exercises include visual representation via an exegetic collage of the assigned void. What are the colors of the voids? Do these colors and textures differ from their context? The project then would be to design an intervention as a response to the context of the chosen void. What does the context need? Who is it for, and why? Responses could interface with political, economic, and social concerns with the varying matter on our planet but also with an underlying conceptual underpinning of their interconnectedness of site, l