about A Temporary Museum
A TEMPORARY MUSEUM OF IDEAS IN THE MAKING
Jan 9, 2018 - April 29, 2018
opening reception: January 9
Strauss Gallery, Hanover, NH
A Temporary Museum of Ideas in the Making is an exhibition of 36 architectural models by Dartmouth students.
The architectural model is the ultimate tool to explore, showcase, and test an idea from its concept to realization. It is a step before the building, or even the building itself. It is tangible, real. But it is also a seductive device that allows you to insert a miniature world, observe its habits, and imagine the new possibilities.
Varying in materials, scale, and purpose, the architectural models presented in the exhibition explore ideas that relate to topics such as the public sphere, utopia/dystopia, work/live conditions, sensory apparatuses, wearables and prosthetics, and the future of food. Students have designed not only buildings and structures to host activities, but also mechanisms that question individualism and isolation, bureaucracy, detachment from the natural world, sociability, democracy, and equality, our ecological futures, empathy, diversity, and other neglected conditions. Through originality, imagination and invention, and under the umbrella of liberal arts education, Dartmouth students have produced a collection of ideas and projects, which essentially explore a new type of architecture, extraordinary but thoughtful, and definitely more relevant to its time.
The models of the exhibition have been produced between 2014-2017 as part of the architecture courses of Zenovia Toloudi at Dartmouth College Studio Art. They have been collected temporarily in the office #310 - establishing professor’s office as both an archive and a display of these architectures, and the bodies of knowledge produced by these young creators.
The architecture curriculum within Studio Art Department of Dartmouth College critiques the current condition within architectural education, which remains competitive, and the practice, which has become a mere service for the client. It explores architecture foundations through the lens of the art (re)turn in architecture. By emphasizing creativity, critical thinking and experimentation, the pedagogical model equips students and young designers with skills to envision and produce a more social and more public architecture that integrates the world’s larger concerns. The artistic approach contributes to reconfigure the core essence of architecture whereby creating a new tradition.
Jan 9, 2018 - April 29, 2018
opening reception: January 9
Strauss Gallery, Hanover, NH
A Temporary Museum of Ideas in the Making is an exhibition of 36 architectural models by Dartmouth students.
The architectural model is the ultimate tool to explore, showcase, and test an idea from its concept to realization. It is a step before the building, or even the building itself. It is tangible, real. But it is also a seductive device that allows you to insert a miniature world, observe its habits, and imagine the new possibilities.
Varying in materials, scale, and purpose, the architectural models presented in the exhibition explore ideas that relate to topics such as the public sphere, utopia/dystopia, work/live conditions, sensory apparatuses, wearables and prosthetics, and the future of food. Students have designed not only buildings and structures to host activities, but also mechanisms that question individualism and isolation, bureaucracy, detachment from the natural world, sociability, democracy, and equality, our ecological futures, empathy, diversity, and other neglected conditions. Through originality, imagination and invention, and under the umbrella of liberal arts education, Dartmouth students have produced a collection of ideas and projects, which essentially explore a new type of architecture, extraordinary but thoughtful, and definitely more relevant to its time.
The models of the exhibition have been produced between 2014-2017 as part of the architecture courses of Zenovia Toloudi at Dartmouth College Studio Art. They have been collected temporarily in the office #310 - establishing professor’s office as both an archive and a display of these architectures, and the bodies of knowledge produced by these young creators.
The architecture curriculum within Studio Art Department of Dartmouth College critiques the current condition within architectural education, which remains competitive, and the practice, which has become a mere service for the client. It explores architecture foundations through the lens of the art (re)turn in architecture. By emphasizing creativity, critical thinking and experimentation, the pedagogical model equips students and young designers with skills to envision and produce a more social and more public architecture that integrates the world’s larger concerns. The artistic approach contributes to reconfigure the core essence of architecture whereby creating a new tradition.
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