0.0 Beyond Reality
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MA Architecture // MA Interior Design To draw well is hard. To make a good model is harder. To choreograph and construct a particular space for real is exponentially more complex and demanding. Doing so through open processes of spatial speculation and explorative making, rather than engaging in definitive and certain ‘delivery’, will require you to embrace and learn to manage hazard and moments of failure. In the year ahead you will become expert in delivering real interventions; but you should also seek to go beyond a literal and simplistic production of space. As we explore unknown spaces, we compare our cognitive expectations to our perceptual experiences. What we preconceive often varies from reality, forming a spatial dialogue that engenders ‘delight’. It is valuable for all designers to understand deeply how such experience occurs. Once beyond the constraints of immediate reality, we are empowered to experiment and manipulate aspects of observer perception, subverting preconceived spatial couplings of cause and effect by sleight of hand. In ‘unreal space’ we are able to test how we experience the reality of our world, encoding our discoveries into conjectural configurative outcomes. Design and develop your work during the year as an experimental framework within which you can identify and address fundamental research questions. Explore how patterns, phenomena and performances might be reconstructed by the designer and observer, forming mimetic cultures of kinesis, ornament, craft, artifice and interpretative meaning. Become an expert in how we move through these during, and beyond, our daily reality. Our final built projects will all aim to address one primary question; how people construct understandings of the world and how spatial designers might manipulate such processes to create novelty and a sensation of wonder. [continued...] UCA Canterbury School of Architecture // MA Architecture // MA Interior Design // 2015-16