Encrusted in an ultra dense urban plot occupying the same land from the farm days of Guangzhou, now surrounded by rising towers of an emergent speculative market a small meandering building surveys and documents the demise of Shipai Urban Village. Designed by Adam Casey an extension to an existing ancestral hall acts as a digital reservoir of the urban village culture. Daily objects are 3d scanned and its data is used to carve into the buildings altar that is positioned at the highest point. Utilizing Microsoft Kinect, coding and traditional model making Adam tested and explored the design between digital crafts and environmental storytelling to create a project that discusses the inevitability of market forces against the resilience of popular culture.
Thank you to our external consultants: Manuel Jimenez Garcia, Sara Klomps, Nicolas Sterling, Gary Grant, Guan Lee, Oliver Wilton, Vesna Petresin Robert. Thank you to our guest critics: Ben Masterton-Smith, Abel Maciel, Manuel Jimenez Garcia, Sara Klomps, Guvenc Topcuoglu, Barbara Campbell Lange, Lawrence Friesen, Goswin Schwendinger, Ana Araujo, Theo Sarantoglou Lalis, Marcos Cruz, Vesna Petresin Robert, Yael Reisner, Julia Backhaus, Paul Bavister, Nick Szczepaniak, Theo Spyropoulos, Claudia Pasquero, Kate Davies, Joao Wilbert
Year 4: Sonal Balasuriya, Adam Casey, Shao Jun Fan, Liang Shang, Anis Wan Kamaruddin, Rintaro Yoshida, Saman Ziaie Year 5: Ming Fung Jeff Ng, Michelle Lam, Kaleigh Tirone Nunes, Aris Theodoropoulos
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Generational Phantoms is set up as a design think tank on how rapid social and technological developments can work not only predatorily under market forces but also collaboratively. Unit 18 discusses how long-circuits between generations can be ground for speculation but also long-term investment. Amid digital dreams and tense social zones students designed their own tales of hope and wonder. As active engagement to imagine not the future but short-circuits in the present its main goal was to ‘hit the nerve’.
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of the Mao’s Land Reformation. Investigated through a series of innovative ceramic tests — including one of the first successful ceramic 3d prints — the project’s materiality explores fragility, translucency and communicative patterns. Designed as a series of water dwellings that are specially arranged according to the moon light the ceramic roof interacts with the light and sea water revealing hidden messages about the dwellers’ lost history and customs.