Welcome to Sol's Fantastic Contraption of Fiction

“When you move to New York, you are in an imaginar y space between your countr y and New York. Rituals take place on each floor to help immigrants better situate themselves within New York Communities. It is a way to build bridges between different communities.”

— Sol Aramendi

W e l c om e to S ol ’s Fantastic Co ntr aptio n o f Fic tio n The project is born out of the understanding that the people of Queens New York grow best in safe spaces. Safe spaces provide rituals and other physical activities that help build relationships with the other people of Queens. With this insight, we propose an architecture that becomes a codex of crafts which is this complex artifact with many parts that work together to protect these unique skill sets and make accessible for all the people of Queens.

S a fe S pa c e s While I engaged with students during the Mobile Print Power workshop session, I discovered evidence of direct and indirect learning. Obser vation and interactions between instr uments and the user during a workshop were more effective than the theor y or logic we typically find in our society today.

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Instead, I found out that the people would rather go to places like the theatre of the oppressed. In these spaces, people can recreate some of their problems on stage and have other people solve them.

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Daniel Cedillo (516)-474-7904 danielcedillo.arch@gmail.com