Teaching Beyond the Curriculum
Abstract
This presentation reviews how inclusion in the studio pedagogy can become a design tool. This paper advocates that, through design, it is possible to provide spaces of tolerance that welcome diversities. Through a variety of academic and professional projects, the author reflects on intolerance and tests whether design can be used to create spatial and social experiences supporting better lives for city residents. Through circular pedagogy, this proposed architectural education supports the becoming of architects aware of spatial discrimination. Students engaged with segregated communities, locals, and a non-profit organization to make performative architecture as a final project. These performances allowed all the stakeholders to appropriate space collectively allowing students to reflect in real time about the role of public space in designing for spatial justice.
Cristina Murphy, a registered architect in the Netherlands, is Associate Professor at MSU. She started at OMA and co-founded XCOOP. Cristina earned her master’s in architecture at Columbia University. Her research examines how to prevent social and urban inequity through the design of cities for people. This is delivered via design studios, study trips abroad, symposiums on inaccessible spaces and inquiries, and design-build activities. Among others, Cristina was a fellow at the Taliesin School of Architecture, Hyde Chair of Excellence at the UNL, and Lecturer at UofA.
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Wednesday 15th November, 2023