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CAMERA, LIGHT, PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO FOR ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS II
Seminar Elective Damjan Minovski
WOMEN AND OTHER ANOMALIES: AN EXPLORATION OF GENDER BIAS IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Seminar Elective Michelle Howard Luciano Parodi guest: Aristide Antonas
Zoom / AU_1.16 Tue bi-weekly 9.30–11.30
Imagine a world where the door handle is too big and too difficult to operate, your heart attack is misdiagnosed, you are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a car accident. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you’re not a white western male.
the staircase and the windowsill, warming and ventilating, and ask how people of other backgrounds and genders would have gone about designing them. On the basis of these explorations we will make proposals for permanent changes to the Academy’s main building at Schillerplatz in the first district.
of the built environment that we currently inhabit. Perhaps this workshop addresses and challenges standardisation itself. Our built environment can and should accommodate more of us, whatever our gender or abilities. Moreover, new advances in technology will allow customisation to become cheaper and far more common if we insist that they do.
Zoom / Media Lab Wed bi-weekly 10.30–13.30
Crashtest-Dummys. Source: https://de.ergonengineering.com
We will create and work with 3D scans, analyze and apply techniques borrowed from the film, vfx and game industry. Furthermore we will establish a solid foundation on the topics of image synthesis, pointcloud/image/ video capture and physics of lights and materials.
Inspired by the book, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez, we will investigate
One may expect these changes to feel uncanny at first, they could alternatively expose the peculiarity
This seminar is open to all students and faculty in the Academy.
