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Pop-Up!

A pop-up retail space is a venue that is temporary — the space could be a sample sale one day and host a private cocktail party the next evening. The trend involves “popping-up” one day, then disappearing anywhere from one day to several weeks later. These shops, while small and temporary, can build up interest by consumer exposure. Pop-up retail allows a company to create a unique environment that engages their customers, as well as generates a feeling of relevance and interactivity. They are often used by marketers for seasonal items such as Halloween costumes and decorations, Christmas gifts andChristmas trees, or fireworks.[1]

The term is often applied to shops offering items of apparel, where the shop is intended less to transact profitable sales than to promote demand for the goods and thereby produce profitable business at other locations, or in modes other than walk-in stores.

Anxiolytic Architecture:

A HALFWAY HOUSE FOR THOSE WITH SEVERE ANXIETY DISORDERS.

[REDUCE STIMULI + FOSTER BEHAVIORAL CHANGES]

What is anxiety? How does it manifest? Can architecture and design work through the lens of domesticity to aid and even cure anxiety disorders? Anxiety disorders plague close to 7% of Canadians aged 15-64 according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, and at present the most frequent treatment is anxiolytics, a term for drugs that are chiefly used to treat anxiety. A prior study of liminal spaces gave rise to an idea that these transition zones represented a common trigger to many anxiety disorders, especially those involving being out in society, such as agoraphobia. This link between many anxieties and society, or the ‘outside’ world, informed the basis for a scenario where a domestic environment could protect the inhabitants from their anxieties, while at the same time working to promote self reliance and growth. Again, the liminal spaces are given special consideration, for their pivotal point of flux represents the specific times when anxiety, either conscious or unconscious, begins. Liminal spaces can be seemingly erased with flow through a space, or drawn out to become a space unto themselves. Perceptions can be altered. Inside can become outside; an exit can become an entryway. When society becomes an infection, domestic life and architecture can be the stabilizing force, connecting body, space, and object, in a way no other environment can.

Boxes and Bodies: Abstractions

Design and create an object you might “use” on a daily basis based on a 18”x18”x18”cube form- remember this is part of an installation- a detail that activates an interior space...

‘The details establish the formal rhythm, the building’s finely fractionated scale. Details when they are successful are not mere decoration. They do not distract or entertain. They lead to an understanding of the whole of which they are an inherent part.’

Peter Zumthor

P.VIII SURVIVAL

25 days / individual / shelter / construction + drawing

Examine the effects of a disaster. Create a site analogue. Propose a shelter that explores how physical and formal apparatuses can re-engage post-trauma conditions, either as infrastructure and/or temporary setups, and how it can foster new opportunities within displacement and destruction.

P.VII RETOOLING

10 days / individual / materiality /

construction + drawing

Examine/discuss the context of the city and the Boston’ Fort Point Channel and develop strategies in engaging a ‘remote’ context, understanding its possibilities and limitations. Explore possibilities of ‘retooling’ the barge as a public space, with SENSORIAL EXPERIENCES.

P.VI USE-LESS

10 days / group / living / film + drawings

Group: Robyn Larsen, Christopher Yap

Carefully observe, reflect and discuss the ‘use’ and ‘useless’ dimensions of our daily living. Produce a short film investigating the boundaries and parameters of ‘use’ and ‘use-less’. The film, as a ‘re- framing’, should question our ways of practicing ‘use’ and ‘useless’, using specific/detail conditions, moments and nuances within our daily practice/environment.

P.V SITUATION [CAMPUS]

16 days / group + individual / context /

construction + drawing

Group: Michael Butterworth, Kristin Defer, Nicole Shewfelt, Marshall Verbrugge

Examine the inter-relationships of material/ immaterial, human/non-human, and functional/phenomenal dimensions of a specific site on campus. Implement a project that relates with the conditions/dynamics of the site and is relevant to the site’s operational/living conditions (functional/phenomenal) through its corporeal presence.

P.IV LATENCY [HIDDEN]

10 days / group / others / construction + drawing

Group: Michael Butterworth, Marshall Verbrugge

Identify and observe latent/hidden potentialities within everyday environments and practices. Study a specific ‘hidden’ aspect using probes that respond to the properties of the ‘hidden’. Devise an apparatus that reveals the ‘hidden’.

P.III DELINEATION:

10 days / individual / boundaries /

construction + drawing

Explore the idea of ‘boundaries and edges’ in the context of the individual studio space. Speculates possible boundary condition(s) of the space. Conceive and construct a boundary condition around the studio space, discussing the delineation of ‘my space’ and its (physical, perceptual, temporal) negotiations with ‘others’ spaces’.

P.II AUGMENTATION:

10 days / individual / mediation / installation + drawing

Explore the body (and it parts) through a series of physical augmentations/mutations. Examine) the existing condition of the body (spatial, formal, textual, functional) Construct a series of physical augmentations/mutations onto the body probing its conditions and potentials.

P.I TRACE:

10 days / group / presence / construction + drawing

Group: Christina Bosowec, Neil Loewen, Nicole Shewfelt

Discuss and investigate particular presences/absences of our body (bodies) in space, then construct an apparatus that traces, draws, and (re)constructs the phenomena.

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