Fall 2023

Instructor: Iulia Gherghescu

Lecture: Mondays 12h-14h

📜 Course Description

This course aims at guiding the students through spatial design concepts, based on revealing a wide array of stylistic and compositional challenges. The focus in on identifying and examining design ideas through research of visual material. It will explore physical and virtual spaces and their manifestations, their relationships to individuals, objects, and different entities; the philosophy and thinking behind designing a space.

We will focus on space, the relationship between the body and space, form and structure, and also on the objects present in a certain space. The student develops their ability to identify and improve existing spaces and work with new spaces—meaning that the relationships between body, object, and space are renegotiated and that questions are posed as to how these new relationships change conditions for individual, group, and the purpose of an artistic performance.

🗝 Course Prerequisites

Basic skills in computer-aided design software
Freehand drawing skills
Creative thinking

🧠 Course Objectives

Students in this course will:

apply the principles of design to two-dimensional and three-dimensional projects for their personal projects (performance and installations)
understand space as an essential component in performance design, developing interactive spaces, and spaces for immersive experiences
be able to participate in interdisciplinary design teams and initiate, manage projects involving social analyses of design and design processes

📚 Readings

Required Texts

🧮 Course Schedule

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