Walls

“In reality border lines have thicknesses, even on Maps, they appear in the ink they are traced in, creating paradoxically as zones of ambiguity, where Colonial Powers usually want to exercise the highest degree of control” Lambert Leopold, Introduction. The Funambulist : Cartography & Power, July-August 2018

Be it the Mexico/US border North and South Korea or The Pacific solution walls/borders front national anxieties. These are imagined as sites of provocation and their materiality our canvas, the studio will closely research and map these contested sites and propose alternative provocations.

Studio ‘Walls’ will ask participants to design at object, spatial, and architectural scales with each relating to broader cosmopolitan mapping. The studio will have no explicit programming beyond that of building a suite of projects that optimistically challenge the site's current conditions. Tectonics, details, model making will be key in keeping the semester theme of materialising architecture theme.