Unit ARC761 ‘Body: Architectural Interventions’
focuses on collaboration and making,
promoting engagement with social, political
and creative issues. The requirement of the
unit is to work with a community and across the
arts to connect with the public in a performative
process, making a spatial intervention in real
time and place. A key focus is the body’s
interaction with its spatial and material context,
as well as the documentation of events.
This unit reflects upon the theoretical and
historical role of the arts via cross disciplinary
thinking and the mythological place of
building elements, examining local and wider
contexts. The unit also explores the role of
the architect in society as a professional
and in creative art practice, addressing
environmental, regulatory and health and
safety issues, which are to be considered
and documented as part of the making.
