Critical Reflection Chapter 06

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Figure 90: Discusive Map. Image accessed, April 22, 2022. (CCBY Jack H. Foisey)

CHAPTER 06 Critical Reflection

Design as Research Methods Studio Theories + Frameworks Architecture and AI Intersticers of Storytelling

This chapter is a thesis program retrospective, a critical look back at the thesis exploration from first explorations to final presentation. This thesis exploration was difficult and feels as if it’s not over with many questions still left to answer and energy to explore them through architecture. There were many moments of clarity that came from other courses I was taking at the time such as Theories + Frameworks, Architecture and AI, and Interstices of Storytelling along with conversations with peers and professors.

After the final thesis presentation and while writing this book, this thesis has shown me the importance of the topics explored and the importance of architecture, especially today. From time to time work done in the beginning of the thesis felt disconnected however the work always came back to make things more clear. If there were more time I would further develop the ownership model, take a deep dive into the realities of the infrastructure, explore place more thoroughly, and explore form in relation to infrastructure and change. I would also revise my methods by exploring physical mediums more and their interface with digital tools.

Other criteria to introduce could be the thesis engagement with a specific place further or a stepping back from a specific place and turning it fully into a model for other collective domestic spaces. The thesis’s criteria involving architectural form and poetics could be introduced to further push questions and solutions around form in relation to infrastructure and the body. Place was not explored enough, the clarity of infrastructure plug in was clear but could be better, it wasn’t entirely clear how I was engaging neo-liberal housing markets. Some of the questions seem to circle around larger late-capitalistic practices, the characteristics of an age, place, and value, and architectures role. All of the points raised were valid however I may challenge the critique about place. This may come from inexperience but I felt place was addressed at a large scale which may make it not about place and more about a context.

The conclusions that can be drawn from the thesis statement are that domestic space, while it is being addressed, is not engaging the requirements and restraints of todays age and value. This is in direct conversation with modernism’s journey through capitalism to late capitalism and the sharing economy. The conclusion drawn is that collectives, specifically ones heiring from modernist models, can be repositioned to favor exchange and the collectives long term shifting aspirations of a in a domestic setting.

Figure 91: Site sketches. Image accessed, April 22, 2022. (CCBY Jack H. Foisey)