Architectural Design Studio 7: Thesis

The Archipelago Studio drew a new projective model for Architecture & Urbansim againist limit conditions of the contemporaty city. it modeled sites as a mesh of actors, vectors, fields, objects, and imagined organizations, cooperatives, or institutional synergies as catalysts driving social justice, conservation, public space; exploring renewal, commoning, co-ownership; pursuing civic joy and freedom. Across networked sites in Athens, Auckland, Hong Kong, the Icarian Sea, the Niagara Escarpment, and Toronto, students designed new sommons, shelter, or sanctuaries against the climate crisis and decline of the commons.