Description
The focus of this seminar is to construct a convincing argument on an issue pertaining to contemporary design and architectural discourse and present it effectively in a range of different platforms to engage with various publics. The seminar operates as a series of roundtable discussions with the aim of collectively identifying what is on the horizon in terms of design and architecture’s current and future roles in society, and the impact of environmental, technological, and cultural transformation on design and architecture’s media as well as means and models of design and architectural production. The seminar prepares students to develop well-constructed and contextualized arguments as they approach their thesis year or track sequence at SCI-Arc. Concepts and discourses that will be engaged throughout the semester include research methods and archives, precedents and forms of practice, AI, simulations and world making, and ecologies and planetary thinking. Equal amounts of course wo