Summer 2018 Studio 14
CDE Studio 14: CABINETS OF CURIOSITY
Virginia MANNERING
STUDIO OUTLINE
Cabinets of Curiosity asks students to design a structure to house and display the archives of a diverse group of architects, with the aim of examining the processes of architectural research and its spatial outcomes.
All projects will be located within the Hoddle Grid (Melbourne CBD), using it as a research site and petri dish. The class will interrogate, analyze and explore the historical, economic, power and identity histories of the city, and use these findings to produce a field of individual, site responsive projects on a set of diverse locations.
Students will get to know the city by observing and documenting it through a variety of lenses: research, photography, writing, walking (experiencing) it.
From there students will zoom in, designing components of this archive/museum space; from research libraries and archives, down to the details of the exhibition display.
The studio schedule will be supplemented by guest tutors (with specific disciplinary knowledge) and as set of off-campus (CBD/Inner City) site visits, surveys and tutorials. Site visits to at least two Melbourne museums/galleries are planned.
STUDIO LEADER
Virginia Mannering is a designer, award-winning architectural writer, and researcher. In practice she has focussed on exhibition, educational, and residential projects. She teaches architectural design, architectural history, construction, and history of art, and is interested in feminist readings of architectural and urban design.
STUDIO OUTCOMES
This studio encourages students to think about the social, cultural and political implications of design. Students will use research as a tool to develop idiosyncratic yet highly contextual museum projects, with a focus on tectonics, and materiality. Along the way students will produce maps, texts and publications, in addition to their design drawings.
REFERENCES
Graeme Davison, “The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne”
Robert Henderson Croll, ‘The Open Road in Victoria’
Lauren Elkin ‘Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London’
STUDIO DATES + TIMES
Tuesday 11:00 - 17:00
Friday 11:00 - 17:00 (TBC)