The Open Design Master students are moving forward on their Laboratory Project, with the common topic of »Growing Senses«. Laboratory Project is the main studio teaching of the third semester of this program between the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Buenos Aires and the Institute for cultural and media studies of Humboldt University. As the mid-term presentations are approaching, I sat with my colleagues designer Frank Bauer and architect Bastian Beyer for a feedback round. Many projects are emerging: we are joining them to design shape-shifting shading devices, protocols for sensing emotional territories, outer heart fountain flows, plant ritual accessories for extra-planetary life, mycelium spatial collaborations, and garden-based divinatory systems.
“In the classroom as in the field, anthropology demands an openness to encounters with the unexpected, a disposition to the moment and its surprises, their unpredictable knocks and occasional gifts.“ (Pandian 2019, 67)
This is a quick graphic report, straight from my fieldnotes.
