What is the hope of cultural engagement in the context of architecture? Does it embrace the need for connectivity with generative and expansive thinking to produce spatial possibilities? By instigating architectural practice as cultural participation, can it warrant diplomacy for determining the inherent disciplinary and cultural territory by reshaping the boundaries into a garden or estuary?
The studio observes social phenomena, historical development, and everyday life as collective cultural stewardship and advancement for making architecture. The course aims to generate ideas for spatial productions with cultural concerns, promoting conscientious design endeavors, resolutions, and identities. This approach makes cultural interest the foundation for design research and thesis, immersing the researcher in a vibrant, communal, and spiritual perspective to advance project discoveries.
The thesis is a practice for everyone to establish creative concerns toward cultural endeavor as a way of being. Culture often informs us of who we are and how we connect to our work with the potential to feed back into the world. Sometimes, cultural conditions are only as significant as our perceptions of them. When we cultivate our care and awareness, we expand our understanding of culture and the world. At the same rate, this act also has the potential to expand the scope of our work and the lives we live.