IN-PERSON: Applying Education

Abstract

In the creative professions today, many individuals define themselves as being at home in more than one discipline. The Interprofessional Studio (AAIS) as a Masterprogramme at the Architectural Association engages with this new reality to explore alternative methods of collaboration between multiple creative professions. Challenging the frontiers of working in between art, architecture and performance, the AAIS aims to expose a hidden ‘worknet’ between multiple professions and their products. The Studio operates as an interdisciplinary creative office where knowledge exchange is one of the core points of focus. The framework of the multidisciplinary educators stimulates students to develop a language with which to communicate across creative disciplines. Our Studio gives individuals an opportunity to step away from their existing professional or academic activities and develop new creative skills and techniques in the overlap of the professions. Spatial performance is the socio-political effect of design and performance and how creative work and design acts within its given context through actual projects and applied networks in the overlap of the creative disciplines. We explore alternative forms of collaboration between the multiple creative professions through research, conception-design, implementation, and production leading to genre-defying spatial performances and constructions. Our applied projects generated within a wide field of creatives, practitioners and researchers serve as a generator and guarantee a high level of focus, outcome, and public participation. By creating unique projects and events through continued discussion, the framework provides students with a starting point for individual careers within a new overarching discipline.