CRS_SP24_WASTEWORKS
waste/works
Advanced Studio
RISD Architecture
Spring 2024
Advanced Studio
RISD Architecture
Spring 2024
FORTHCOMING:
WASTE WORKS. This studio investigates the metabolic material economies of construction and demolition (C&D) waste, and dreams of sustainable building labor futures amid the climate crisis. As the built environment’s relationships with materiality are reoriented from resource (capitalist extraction of ‘cheap nature’) to resourcefulness (creative material management), we will leverage its waste streams and byproducts toward more circular institutions, more social ‘supply chains,’ and more environmentally energetic architectures.
NOTE: We will be engaging with the RISD Nature Lab throughout the semester for construction ‘cooking’ and material experiments. Taking resourcefulness as an ethos, the studio expects students to get creative with material sourcing and explore low-footprint approaches to model-making. Prepare to get your hands dirty!
This design studio is an extension of the D.E.P.O.T. / Gross Domestic Practices exhibition held at RISD Architecture in Fall 2023.
WASTE WORKS. This studio investigates the metabolic material economies of construction and demolition (C&D) waste, and dreams of sustainable building labor futures amid the climate crisis. As the built environment’s relationships with materiality are reoriented from resource (capitalist extraction of ‘cheap nature’) to resourcefulness (creative material management), we will leverage its waste streams and byproducts toward more circular institutions, more social ‘supply chains,’ and more environmentally energetic architectures.
NOTE: We will be engaging with the RISD Nature Lab throughout the semester for construction ‘cooking’ and material experiments. Taking resourcefulness as an ethos, the studio expects students to get creative with material sourcing and explore low-footprint approaches to model-making. Prepare to get your hands dirty!
This design studio is an extension of the D.E.P.O.T. / Gross Domestic Practices exhibition held at RISD Architecture in Fall 2023.
