Supervisor: Peter Staub
Assistant: Georgia Papathanasiou
Studio Staub will focus on the design of new schools of thoughtii, in close collaboration with institutions and individuals working on the ongoing research project with the same name, short “NeST”iii. The semester will be composed by three highlights:
1. An ideas competition
The studio will conduct an ideas competition for a new school of thought within the realm of the architectural discipline. We will first develop a digital archive which will serve as a basis for the formulation of visual manifestos for the students’ very own new schools of thought, taking a position on the current architectural scene/milieu and the contemporary system of architectural education. We will speculate on what and how to learn, while simultaneously conceive, imagine and design spaces that emerge from your manifesto and your ideological conception of knowledge production. By proposing spatial and syntactic structures, the projects will manifest different forms of learning processes and mediation. Taking into consideration the work produced by students at the Institute for Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna during the winter term 2015, we will
continue to experiment with spatial speculations on students’ envisioned architectural schools of thought, sharing and exchanging our experiences and results with students and faculty from Vienna.
2. Design Seminar: London
During our Design Seminar we will travel to London to experience new forms of architectural mediation as well as meeting and working with our research partners at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) among other institutions. See the Design Seminar description for more information.
3. La Biennale di Venezia
The student’s work will be included in a publication, event and performance part of the Salon Suisse 2016iv on the opening day of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale, in Venice.
i Dewey J. [2005], Democracy and Education, Stilwek , KS: DigiReads.com Publishing. [Original Work published in 1916]
ii A new school of thought can be defined as a set of ideas and opinions on new methods of knowledge creation and on new
forms of knowledge transfer, that a group of people dedicated to architecture and spatial planning share about architectural
education.
iii www.uni.li/nest. NeST is being conducted in collaboration with the following research partners: the Architectural
Association School of Architecture in London (AA), the Institute for Art and Architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna,
the Faculty of Design Sciences of the University of Antwerp and Umeå University School of Architecture in Sweden.
iv https://biennials.ch/home/BiennialDetail.aspx?BiennialId=74&PosLeft=‐4155px
