Studio 7
Desire: Amusing Ourselves to Death
Gumji Kang
Studio Description
“Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.”
- Neil Postman (1985)
Where will the maximisation of self-interest, limited benevolence and instrumental rationality take us?
Studio Desire explores the idea of desire as conscious design process and invites the students to investigate the motivation, the execution and the psyche behind it.
During the early phase of the studio, each student will be asked to choose an action, or an outcome, or an attribute under their chosen desire, that they wish to speculate and experiment with.
The site for the studio is the ruined Corkman, and ultimately the students will be asked to come up with a reactive Student Housing model that embodies and negotiates with the idiosyncratic desires.
Studio Leader
Gumji KANG is a registered architect at NH Architecture and has taught a number of architectural design studios at the University of Melbourne. Her interest in architecture lies in public place making and identity, and also integration of technology into design methodology.
ST1/07 Monday 6:15-9:15PM, MSD Room 117
ST2/07 Thursday 6:15-9:15PM, MSD Room 117