advanced studio in the production of space:
new models, modeling as practice

instructor: Gediminas Urbonas
ta: Mariel Villere, ra: Zenovia Toloudi

image: Langley Wind Tunnel 1938

This studio focuses on modeling as way of thinking in the arts, architecture and science: explores rational qualities of spatial concepts, relations between the model, its viewer and author; and reflects on model producers and proponents.

Beginning with models in art and science, we will explore rationality and judgment of scale, historical models, politics of the material, paradox, meanings of abstraction and realism, and appropriate communication models. Students will introduce modeling practices (and models of practice) from their respective disciplines and develop and expand their own practice and capabilities through interdisciplinary discourse.

Students will be making models of their own and developing projects for display in the classroom and in the exhibition setting. Through accumulating models of different registers of knowledge processing, the space of the classroom itself will be transformed to become a model “for” and “of” the pedagogy.

This class works in cooperation and exchange with the MIT Museum and Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland.