ASO Studio: Past Futures - The Mississippi River Delta: Aesthetics, Politics, and Multiple Mediums
This studio investigates the Past Futures of the Great American Mississippi River. The studio is focused, in part, on the problem of how we construct facts and our understanding about the built environment.
ASOS Catalog Course Description
This studio investigates the Past Futures of the Great American Mississippi River. The studio is focused, in part, on the problem of how we construct facts and our understanding about the built environment. What is our understanding of history, and whose history have we been given through the “facts”? We explore operational speculations through the lens of plausibility. Where do the scopes of future imaginaries and innovation lie in the stories of the past?
We think ethically about the modes of communication and translation we develop and use in our projects. How does AI understand and interpret our environments; what is our agency and relationship to machine learning in our design processes and cultural speculations?
In this studio, students are expected to engage and develop a wide range of interrelated capacities, including critical thinking, analytical writing and reflective design production; ranging from building conservation, design research, emerging technologies and materiality, social issues, landscape, urbanism, spatial perception and methods of conceptual thinking.