OBJECTion to PREposition
OBJECTion to PREpedagogy
OBJECTion to PREform
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
trays + student forum
A.
OBJECTion to PREposition
WHY is design, the object of the preposition?...in a title and especially in a school?
Have not buildings as objects been the model historically?
SO, as an objection to the position of not only the traditional act of building, but to traditional act of reviewing students' as objects and their work as objects, is something else hidden in the vocabulary?
C U P will only use the given terminology of the brief...as an act to communicate, understand and propose in the given context. At the same time, C U P is a pro-active collaborative, and our rethinking of the GSD, will as always, produce no "real matter," per C U P's mission.
representation of space & space of representation...( given phrases )
The choice is not one of re-arrangement of parts...but one involving a mindset in direct connection to a point of view for both audience and actors alike? The participation of all parties ( student & jury, faculty & public ) when experienced becomes shared beyond the timeframe of the review. In the shared moment, "DEEP Memory" is alive and stored to be given as the "gift." The gift and giver at anytime in the future can reverse, flip, reflect, mirror, etc., as what is known as a given, formal format is forever forgotten. In the exchange, by the way, there are no forces, no gravities, no equilibrium, only the bodies at play, suspended ever so slightly above spaceship earth.
ALL the above stated, a DEMOnstration will follow per the SIX given categories of the brief.
C U P has grouped the given SIX into three pairs, hopefully as gifts, full of lessons only to be passed on.
B.
OBJECTion to PREpedagogy
year 1 :
sketchOR diagram
do not sketch!
diagrams can be additive or subtractive...as DESIGN process.
trays were once called terraces by the designer. ( term from 1969 contract documents )
add a flip to the object of the preposition...and
the once titled furniture compartments contract into structured landscape as implied.
the suggested is the strength, as passage is booked, departure engendered.
become diagrams...
" I look at you, and I ask myself...what can I use you for?"
year 2 :
modelOR photograph
do not photograph!
models can be digital or untouchable...as DESIGN projection.
without gravity, all structures are featherweights.
again, through subtraction, heavy & light, strong & weak...softened, then SPACE appears.
the appearance is, a mirage...all required, a VISIONary?
by the way, the space of vision is super super small, but the impact, could be opposite?
all said...is the condition, in position?
become models...
" Frankly, school is out!"I
year 3 :
filmOR write
do not write!
films can be non-sequential or without time...as DESIGN plays
the curtain lifts, again not heavy, but this time revolves as another clock
why is it that design is so short & construction so long?...is this a review too?
oh no, not the case, just the toss of the terms, we all thought, were so firm.
in the air, off the ground, we see each other, all on stage, who is who, here we go.
final act, the drive through, place your order, pick up ready, never right, always tasty.
the auto is a tourist, but those on the staircase, climb & climb, as travelers, wasting time.
become films...
" I don't want to be a product of my environment. We want our environment to be a product of we."
C.
OBJECTion to PREform
Hierarchy as a system...involves direction.
Arrows point...up down, in out...
Students absorb...then preform, but for who?
Platforms ( TRAYS ) in place...I guess we're eating in front of the TV tonight?
or
GeoGRAPHIC shifts occur daily per current climates...
in a TRAY
on a TRAY
then
inFORM
reform
3 OBJECTions : ( titles, topics & trays ) +/- 3 PROposals : ) terraces, topographies & travelers ( = Cultivating Urban Population