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2023

ExP

Threads of Innovation - MAKING IS THINKING

EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE

2022

ExP

Threads of Innovation - MAKING IS THINKING

EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE

The Experimental Practice master course exhibition RETHINKING SPACES

on display in Skiboli from Dec 9th to Dec 11th.
Opening: Friday December 9th 14h, Skiboli.
All students & faculty are welcome to join!

In EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE, we ask the fundamental questions of architecture all over again.

We go back to the basics to rethink a role of an architect in society as it is today towards a sustainable future.

We challenge the usual practices of SPACE MAKING and learn from other disciplines.

We tailor the roof. We stitch the house. We grow the floor. We weave the wood.

Forest, rain, sheep, stone, farmer, horse, weaver, child are our clients and our teachers.

EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE Høst 2022 students:
Julie Eide, Emily Sjøgren, Siv-Ananthini Balasundaram, Pernille Landrø, Anniken Haugan, Nolwenn Jobard-Houdusse, Anna Julia Van der Ploeg, Annabell Aichele, Hasse Peeters, Ana Barbera Garcia, Ana Zaragozá Tortajada, Hanne Deswert, Stijn R. Oeyen, Silvia Luque Pardo, Mireya Munoz Camacho, Jorge Fernandez de la Riva, Anna Schmidt, Anna Schwaab, Christian Opdal, Cristina Mansilla

EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE Høst 2022 Teaching team:
Aleksandra Raonic (Course Leader), August Schmidt, Arnstein Gilberg, Nina Haarsaker, in collaboration with Katy Chada & Magnus Jensen (clients/collaborators), workshops by Eileen Johnsen, Edith Lundebrekke, Nina Holtan (Norway), Jay Thakkar, Rishav Jain, Priyamwada Singh (India), theory & aesthetics by Eivind Kasa, and jury members Gro Rødne and Johanna Gullberg.

MASTERKURS 2015- 2020:

MAKING IS THINKING

De overordnede målene for kurset er:

• Undersøke feltet der arkitektur kryss-pollinerer med andre kreative fagområder

• Jobbe i spennet fra overordnede, konseptuelle ideer til spesifikke og konkrete intervensjoner.

  / Koble teori og praksis- være både tenkende og handlende.

• Kunne ha innvirkning og aktivt bidra til byutvikling gjennom intervensjoner med reelle interessenter og i møte med publikum

Masterkurset Making is thinking er av flere pilotprosjekt gjennom forskningssenteret TRANSark ved Fakultet for arkitektur og design ved NTNU. Kurset representerer etterspurt forskning på det som utvikler og forbinder kunnskap og ferdigheter gjennom både kropp og sinn. Kursoppgavene spenner fra felles fullskala byggeprosjekter til individuelle praktiske øvelser og kunstneriske metoder. Sentralt i kurset er «lateral tenkning», som utfordrer studentene til å overvinne læringsterskler.

Et tradisjonelt drevet designstudio kan ikke etterligne den kroppslige erfaringen som det å lage, å bygge og det å gjøre gir. Det å jobbe praktisk og konkret, gjerne med uventet utfall og uttrykk, fører til at studentene utfordrer sine vanlige og forutinntatte forestillinger de kan ha («desgin fixations» eller «Einstellung effects») når det gjelder hva en arkitekt gjør eller bør gjøre. For å øve kritisk tenking reflekterer studentene over, og diskuterer sine egne læringsprosesser. De blir utfordret på å formidle arbeid de gjør til ikke-arkitekter, og erfarer prosesser som ikke bare dekker faglige og akademiske ferdigheter, men integrerer taus- og kontekstavhengig kunnskap.

MAKING IS THINKING MASTER COURSE 2015-2020

The overall objectives of the course are to:

• Investigate the field where architecture cross-pollinates with other creative disciplines

• work in the span from overall ideas to site-specific interventions. Visualized conceptually and enacted physically

• achieve real impact by actively contribute to the urban development by making live interventions with real stakeholders that engages with the public

The Making Is Thinking master studio course is a pilot project of the TRANSark research centre at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at NTNU and represents part of a much-needed investigation into the development of skills connecting body and mind. The course assignments range from full-scale building to 'hands-on' experiences and artistic methods. Central to the course is ‘lateral thinking’, which challenges students to overcome learning thresholds.

The traditional design studio cannot mimic the embodied experience that is achieved through by the comparatively real experience of making. The hands-on making and its sometimes unexpected outcomes lead to the students challenging habitual and preconceived notions (‘design fixations’ or ‘Einstellung effects’) they may have concerning what an architect does, or should do. In order to take more conscious positions, the students are trained to discuss their learning processes as well as to communicate their work to non-architects, gaining knowledge that not only covers professional and academic skills, but also contextualises tacit knowledge.

2020

MAKING IS THINKING - RADICAL BORDER

2020// Future possibilities and limitations of architecture the Radical Border UTOPIAN FUTURE of NYHAVNA/ TRONDHEIM . Exhibited in June at TAF/ ArkitektenesHus in the center of Trondheim, and Galleri Blunk at Nyhavna/ Strandveien as windows exhibitions.

2019

MAKING IS THINKING - RADICAL URBAN PUBLIC SPACES

Click on the picture above// 2019 MASTER COURSE PROGRAM: RADICAL URBAN PUBLIC SPACES

Making is Thinking invited to take part in a parallel assignment for future public spaces at Nyhavna initiated by Trondheim municipalities and Trondheim harbor authorities. For this year “Hendelser at the harbor” we took care of the exhibition of the six different city plan suggestions- where the students as one of the groups presented their ideas for Nyhavna. In addition the students built a floating multi-participatory “micro-cosmos” in to the dock this year event was surrounding.

The floating wooden microcosmos construction invited for the direct contact with the dominating natural elements of the harbor, together with providing for interaction and testing new kind of meeting places.

Link to short film of “Hendelser på Nyhavna 2019” under EVENTS

2018

MAKING IS THINKING - STAGING URBAN PUBLIC SPACES

// 2018 MASTER COURSE: STAGING URBAN PUBLIC SPACES

Making is Thinking was also in 2018 initiating the event Hendelser på Nyhavna together with Cirka teater, Trondheim municipalities and Trondheim harbour authorities. We transformed a former car repair shop in to a participatory exhibition where the students also presented their ideas for Nyhavna.

Outside the students made a multifunctional physical intervention: Partly stairs, stage, tribune and simply something interesting to look at or climb in. It advertises the upcoming new entrance for Cirka teater and is made of reused materials.  

Link to short film of “Hendelser på Nyhavna 2018” under EVENTS

2016

MAKING IS THINKING - FIRST NYHAVNA HAPPENINGS

During the spring semester 2016, 14 Master students followed the Masters course Making Is Thinking. The semester is characterised by a collaboration with the theatre company Cirka Teater and Trondheim’s city planning office. This was a collaboration aiming to contribute to the local debate about the future of the harbour area Nyhavna in Trondheim. The Making Is Thinking students put forward their arguments through drawings, models, performances, and full-scale interventions presented at a public festival called “Hendelser På Nyhavna”. 

2014

MAKING IS THINKING - THE FORM LAB