Principal Investigator
Prof. Gediminas Urbonas, Architecture; Ms. Mariel Villere, Architecture
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2015
Department/Lab/Center:
Architecture
We request funding for a Fall 2014 studio/seminar course for undergraduate and graduate students across all schools and majors with the theme “New Models and Modeling as Practice”. Engaging interdisciplinary thought, “the model” will be used for knowledge production and communication of ideas, often complicated and discipline specific, to new audiences. Through creation, students investigate the explanatory model as an innovative tool to translate and express a conception – of sound, a scientific phenomenon, the natural world, a scientific formula, or data – into a spatial object. Ultimately, the course aims to enable disciplines to learn from each other through various expressions, encouraging a long lasting pedagogical mode for teaching and learning at MIT between science and art.