[.] 11. 20100115 14.30>19.30 :: refining work for presentation

Students keep refining and completing their material as they approach the final presentation on sunday 17.

[.] 10. 20100114 8.30>19.30 :: prototype development - video and panels ideas 2

Second, long day of big-scale prototyping, paneilng and video setup. Final panel approaches... keep up the good work!

[.] 09. 20100113 16.30>19.30 :: prototype development - video and panels ideas

While further developing large-scale prorotypes, students start storyboarding and thinking layouts for their final panels.

[.] 08. 20100112 16.30>19.30 :: prototype development

Students work on the development of large scale prototypes, considering material properties at the enlarged scale.

[.] 07. 20100111 08.30>11.30 :: final proposals development, material selection

Short lecture (Prof. Alessio Erioli) about "[Act]-ivating space", explaining strategies for intensifying space through the amplification of an aesthetic of forces related to the project (particles, light, space occupation).

Tutorized support to the groups for the choice of final prototypes materal.

[.] 06. 20100110 16.30>19.30 :: final proposal critic, project election for big scale final prototypes

After final pin-up critics, the two projects selected for the big scale prototyping are by BOOOO group and The Architists. Although these two are worth a mention, congratulations to all the groups for the quality expressed in the projects!

[.] 04. 20100108 08.30>16.30 :: idea development, site negotiation & further prototypes to final proposal

Students keep refining their proposals for the second pin-up.
Today's lecture is about "The Installation ART" (guest Dr.prof. Buthanya Ali), exploring the evolution of artistic installation and specific work with an exploration of her present work.

Day 05: no workshop (students are busy in other university activities).

[.] 03. 20100107 08.30>16.30 :: pin-up critics, idea development, first prototypes

Each group gets a personalized critic to their initial creative embryos, helping them to recognize the potential of each direction. Students keep working on the ideas that where selected during pin-up crtics. Today's lecture is about "Fashion of Architecture - Geometry lessons" (Prof. Aref Maksoud), in which the body-space relation is furthermore expanded in the perspective of the interconnection between fashion and architecture, with a closer look as dresses as architectural devices and their strategies of body adaption by form through the use of geometry (plications, tessellations, folds).

Students have then furthermore developed the selected ideas (strategy development, site negotiation), supported by group tutoring during the day.

[.] 02. 20100106 16.30>19.30 :: concept research, first pin-up

Students start working on the fast production of concepts for a pavilion or an installation to be placed in a site inside the AIU (choice of site is up to each group); pin-up at the end of the day.
Today's lecture (by Prof. Alessio Erioli) is "Bodies, space, ornaments", in which the interaction of bodies in space is unfold, as well as bodies' and architectures' systemic structure as nested parts and wholes, implying the concept of scale, as well as ornament as a way to solve issues of articulation and differentiation. The last part focuses on elegance, presented as a search for fineness driven by craft.

[.] 01. 20100105 16.30>19.30 :: workshop introduction - first lecture

After a brief introudction to the workshop's synopsis and structure by prof. Aref Maksoud, it's time for Prof. Alessio Erioli to kickstart the class with a lecture on "Generative sensibilities". Focus of the lecture is to take a closer look on the creative process itself intended as an open exploration, which requires a form of rigorosity, introducing key concepts such as emergence, process, implicit-explicit, endogenous-exogenous and a short glimpse on how meaning in art has been displaced from the object to the intercalary space between observer and artpiece. The aim is to shift from the materialization of a preconceived idea to a process driven by trial and error, improvisation and adaptation.

Students are then divided into groups.