Jul 13

Jul 13 331_Malak Ali: As Productive As It Gets

Submission #331 | Malak Ali: As Productive As It Gets — “The project aims towards a self-sufficient community coming from a new approach to urban agriculture and housing which seeks to shift the idea of the isolation between them and unite them. The main targets will be the community and the public. Creating forms and placing functions in a sustainable way to encourage the users to expand their knowledge and skills in farming using latest technologies in order to overcome the problem in the decrease of local food production and control of wasted water.”

Mar 14

Mar 14 294_Emily Martin: Créer Cavalier | Habiliter Les Femmes

Maria Flores

students

Submission #294 | Emily Martin: Créer Cavalier | Habiliter Les Femmes — “Créer Cavalier | Habiliter Les Femmes is a project which aims to contest and combat the long-standing gender inequalities of France through empowering the women of Marseille using equestrian activities to build physical and mental strength as well as confidence and self-esteem to proclaim and provoke the evidently patriarchal societal state of the City.”

Feb 8

Feb 8 281_Marco Nieto: Ashes to Ashes

Maria Flores

students

Submission #281 | Marco Nieto: Ashes to Ashes — “My proposal seeks to create a permanent and spiritual fixture in the fabric of the ever-changing and ethereal festival that is Burning Man, reinventing its identity. This will be done by integrating the process and materiality of ash, utilizing its sustainable potential and intimate meaning to those who participate to create a new program that melds industry and institution, creating a familiar yet foreign sight in the middle of the desert.”

Nov 20

Nov 20 17_Ayo Rosanwo: Defensive Incubator

Maria Flores

students

Ayo Rosanwo: Defensive Incubator — This project was provoked by an event which occured during the summer of 2016, involving the fatal shooting of Philando castile filmed and streamed live by his girlfirend on facebook. I was particularly interested in the empowerment she felt at the time by having a phone with a video recorder. The project is underpinned by this particular moment, where surveillance and technology becomes a mechanism for self defense.

Nov 12

Nov 12 11_Simone Hirmer: Selfstorage

Maria Flores

students

Simone Hirmer: Selfstorage — Selfstorage is a phenomenon of our time, a phenomenon of densing cities, less and less room for the individual and the collectiveness of subjects human seems to need. This called forth economical containers, personal storage units that aim to provide room for all those subjects that seem to be so utterly important for us.