Fall 2023
Instructors: Evan Jones and Margaret Ikeda
This seminar focussed on the threshold where nature [exterior] and building [interior] meet. This zone is commonly understood as a controlled border engineered to exclude natural systems and species to prioritize and maximize human comfort. “What does it mean to rethink this relationship? Is there be a more symbiotic relationship with living systems? Does the reframing of this duality impact the relationship of architecture in unexpected spatial and material ways? Furthermore, can we create an architectural interface which is part of a circular regenerative living system operating at multi-scales and with multi-species? As participants of the Biodesign Challenge held yearly in New York City, this course looked at biological processes of growth, self-assembly and adaptation, to uncover inventive methods of fabrication which can expand human construction to integrate living systems.
Constructed Ecologies seminar, Fall 2024:
Henry Obeng Asare
Alia Brookshire
Yuxi Chen
Daisy Downs
Jared Elizares
Jesus Macias Franco
Kianoush Hamedi
Negar Hosseini
Chizumi Kano
Vishesh Naresh Khetwani
Hannah Leathers
Miti Chetan Mehta
Manthan Rosal
Conrad Scheepers
Natalie Schtakleff
Vicky Sindac
Hannah Lee Sun
Jhostine Chalen Ulloa
Andrew Justin Villanueva