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A selection of perspectives on architecture as a speculative practice engaging the need for change. Reflections on new ways of interpreting and deploying architecture throughout some of SCI-Arc Channel’s Black community voices.

V. Mitch McEwen: A(n) Office

V. Mitch McEwen: A(n) Office

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V. Mitch McEwen [Co-founder A(n) Office/Assistant Professor, Princeton University School of Architecture] reflects on her path into architecture, urban design and academia. McEwen discusses current projects including the Black Box research group at Princeton University’s Embodied Computation Lab, work with a range of cultural institutions and a project for “The Architectural Imagination” at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.

FEAR AND WONDER 1: An Expedition through the Landscapes of Fiction

FEAR AND WONDER 1: An Expedition through the Landscapes of Fiction

15:26

Our perception of the world is largely shaped through the mediums of fiction.

SCI-Arc Homelessness Charrette

SCI-Arc Homelessness Charrette

08:35

Design as a human right, not a luxury or a privilege, has been a part of SCI-Arc’s mission and pedagogy since the school’s founding in 1972. It is in this spirit that, in January 2019, SCI-Arc in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, turned the school’s attention to one of the most pressing issues of our moment and our city: homelessness. In a four-day, all-school workshop, SCI-Arc came together as a community of designers to make a contribution to the body of thinking on homelessness.

V. Mitch McEwen : Uses of the normal: the normal as power (October 16, 2019)

V. Mitch McEwen : Uses of the normal: the normal as power (October 16, 2019)

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Our Automated Future: Science through Storytelling

Our Automated Future: Science through Storytelling

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Generously funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, “Our Automated Future: Science through Storytelling” takes a journey into a series of speculative futures crafted by students in SCI-Arc’s EDGE Fiction and Entertainment postgraduate program directed by coordinator Liam Young with program faculty Alexey Marfin.