TELLING STORIES
[RE]MAKING WORLDS
The sun was gone…It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes were Watching God
Our design should be lucid as well as evocative. Detailed and sublime. Changeable and structured. Flexible and centered on steady principles. Architecturally creative and socially relevant. Geometrically breathtaking and experientially riveting.
The way we will evaluate the projects will not depend solely on the quality of form. Instead there will be three aspects to evaluation criteria:
1. Is the design engaging and democratic? The design, representations (plans, images, models etc.) are just one way to evaluate success.
2. Is the design socially relevant? For that it is not enough for community members to like your work, although that is important. You need to connect with a community of scholars and community activists – architects, historians, ecologists, and anthropologists – to show how your work is related to other works, theories and ideas, and precedents. You need to quote words of local residents and citizens to explain your work. A work existing in a vacuum is not a successful socially relevant design.
3. Is the design contextual? Context is not merely site – it includes social, temporal, ecological, geological, historical, cultural, economic and political contexts and your design needs to overtly show how it is contextual. A sophistication of such an understanding makes the design more than a good form, but a thoughtful concept.
1. Is the design engaging and democratic? The design, representations (plans, images, models etc.) are just one way to evaluate success.
2. Is the design socially relevant? For that it is not enough for community members to like your work, although that is important. You need to connect with a community of scholars and community activists – architects, historians, ecologists, and anthropologists – to show how your work is related to other works, theories and ideas, and precedents. You need to quote words of local residents and citizens to explain your work. A work existing in a vacuum is not a successful socially relevant design.
3. Is the design contextual? Context is not merely site – it includes social, temporal, ecological, geological, historical, cultural, economic and political contexts and your design needs to overtly show how it is contextual. A sophistication of such an understanding makes the design more than a good form, but a thoughtful concept.
Representations and Deliverables
Models
How flexible and appropriate are your workshop models
A site model, small enough to be carried, but not so small that it makes no sense
A model of a part of your project: can it be changed and modified during discussions?
Can you model during the workshops?
Will you leave some of these behind to create a buzz and sustain interest after your exit?
Drawings
Are the drawings informative?
Is there an appropriate mix of orthographic and perspective drawings?
How will people know the many materials and experiences in your design? How will you list them visually?
Can drawings be flexible and accommodative of new ideas and changes? How?
Will you leave some of these behind to create a buzz and sustain interest after your exit?
Models
How flexible and appropriate are your workshop models
A site model, small enough to be carried, but not so small that it makes no sense
A model of a part of your project: can it be changed and modified during discussions?
Can you model during the workshops?
Will you leave some of these behind to create a buzz and sustain interest after your exit?
Drawings
Are the drawings informative?
Is there an appropriate mix of orthographic and perspective drawings?
How will people know the many materials and experiences in your design? How will you list them visually?
Can drawings be flexible and accommodative of new ideas and changes? How?
Will you leave some of these behind to create a buzz and sustain interest after your exit?
Pamphlets, Informed Consent Forms, bibliographies
How can smaller pamphlets accompany and bolster what your drawings and models say? What size should the pamphlets be? How many? What should they say?
How will you communicate the information from the informed consent forms?
Do you need to cite sources so that people know where you are coming from? How will you do so? Will you leave some of these behind to create a buzz and sustain interest after your exit?
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