48-696 Aesthetics and Multiple Mediums
9 units, Carnegie Mellon University
How architects have made aesthetic arguments through a variety of different mediums is of crucial importance for the discipline of architecture, both past and future. Through subverting not only the image but the conventions of contemporary architectural mediation. The goal is to challenge these conventions to explore aesthetic and communicative potentials. Using found images, objects, digitally manipulated photographs, video, animation, furniture, food, websites, publication material street spaces, architecture the list goes on, the mediums of our reality, appropriation and remixing questions the medium itself and our reality. It is through interaction, experience, and discourse we create our identities. As designers and makers, it is in the process of making proposals and making reactions where collaboration and dialogue coupled with making as thinking, test and create new futures. The overlaps and frictions that are created through multiple mediations as the most provocative zone for architectural work. These multiple mediums translate techniques, concepts and aesthetics between themselves, constructing architectural arguments. We will consider the aesthetic qualities and disposition of objects, information, drawings, photographs, moving image. We will utilize a range of social platforms of YouTube, Wikipedia, Instagram, Facebook, News media, Documentaries, Scientific Journals, Historical Documents, Weather Maps We will confront the aesthetics of reality. Students will take their current design studio work and employ it through a series of mediations. The work of this course includes both visual and textual analysis as well as written and graphic production. Participants in the seminar develop an archive, original visualizations that investigate multiple mediums and platforms, and culminate in a final project in an exhibition.
Prerequisites: 48-707
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