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Workshop

Lexi Tsien, Dahlia Nduom, and Jelisa Blumberg

Power Tools

Power Tools Poster

This workshop aims to leverage collective and DIY-knowledge-building as a representational technique and a tool of power. Building a communal and countercanonical repository of knowledge and technique is proposed as a transformative model of self-education. Structured through a series of mini-lectures, breakout exercises, and discussions, this workshop is a horizontal research opportunity for faculty and students to invent and adapt representational tools, recasting “site” and “building” beyond its physical parameters to underline other dimensions of meaning. The workshop challenges ways of seeing and ways of making in order to validate spatial practices that are not typically considered relevant to architectural discourse, including things that are barely architecture, as well as objects, tools, and spatial methods that follow logic well outside of prescription. Participants will contribute relevant images, text, and other source material to produce two and three-dimensional artifacts. Students may import a site from a concurrent studio brief or research project and export materials produced in the workshop. The overall intent is to expand and enrich our toolkit for processing and projecting the built environment through cross-institutional collaboration. This approach aims to expand and enrich our locus for research and design while offering new opportunities for practice.

Power Tools is a cross-institutional collaboration between Yale, Howard and Morgan State with generous support from the ASCEND Initiative at Yale.

Limited Enrollment. Interested participants can apply via Google Form open until 5pm, Friday October 25th. Accepted participants will be informed by Tuesday, October 29th, and are expected to attend both sessions in full on November 2nd and November 9th.

DAY 1: November 2, 2024

9:00 – 9:45 Introductions & Mini-Lecture 1 on Power, Image, and Annotation
9:45 –10:30 Shareout
10:30 – 12:00 Groupstorm: Rapid-fire imaging and annotation
12:00 –1:00 Lunch
1:00 –1:30 Mini-Lecture 2 on Collage, Ads, and Arguments / Maquettes, Sets and Assemblages
1:30 – 3:45 Production
3:15 – 3:45 Sketch Ideas for Day 2
3:45 – 5:00 Pin-Up and Discussion

DAY 2: November 9, 2024

11:00 – 11:30 Mini-Lecture 3 on Documentation, Photography, and Atmosphere
11:30 – 12:00 Composition
12:00 –1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 – 3:00 Making Session
3:00 – 5:00 Presentation Pin-Ups

Date

Saturday, November 2
9 AM – Saturday, November 9, 2024
5 PM

Registration Form