December 25, 2009

Institutionalizing Beauty

During Week 48, Annika Enquist and Thérèse Kristiansson (from The New Beauty Council or NBC) join as guest lecturers to guide a series of activities around the theme:

Institutionalizing Beauty and Destabilizing the Map

NBC does not conceive sites as neutral values but recognizes them as social constructions that envisage and shape relationships of power. One aspect brought forward will be how we can change the experience of the urban landscape with alternative movements and taking places with our bodies. We take our own experience as example and draw parallels to the dynamics of power manifested by architecture, behaviour and action....
(from the theme description by Annika and Thérèse)

View students' design responses and read more about the theme below.