STUDIO Juvenilia
WS 2017
Fridays, starting October 6th
in English
Lecturer:
Guest Professor ATTP: Valle Medina & Ben Reynolds
Univ.Assistent Georg Fassl
Univ. Prof. Vera Bühlmann

Juvenilia

Can we keep alive a moment between a certain helplessness in the world and a fearlessness towards the potentials of what will come?
In recent years the “discovery” of youth has led to large shifts in development of technology and the creation of a new market segment which is trying to capitalise on its helpless/fearless condition. Such development has taken leads from the overwhelming amount that is being written in popular literature and mainstream
media, where Youth is being problematized in a manner that intents to give an image of its “debilitation”.
Juvenilia is not studio about the problems a youth faces, it is a studio that will ask questions of the architectural project with nominal prerequisites, fearlessness, and stemming from new sociocultural scenarios that have not hitherto existed. In Juvenilia, each participant will document a new scenario facing youth and respond by actualising literary, spatial and material responses. A full list of Juvenilia topics and buildings will be provided at the beginning of the course and will set the foundations
towards the individual projects. Topics with architectural implications that concern the generation growing up today include novel forms of: independence of driving after AI; courtship and message-bound dating; dealing with the Realism of the local vs. the planetary horizon of the internet; evaluation between truthful reports and biased lifestories
that are washed away in social media; socializing in the suburban Mall;
contagions of the social and emotional; parental monitoring 24/7; following real-time/ mass saturated News; corporate patronisation landscapes; the right to be forgotten etc.
Can we embrace–without prejudice–these complex spatial and aesthetical reflections that youth face in order to capture architecture projects? Juvenilia will unearth nonlinear forms of space-making working with abstract narratives by association. The end of the studio will create unique portraits concerning new obsessions of youth.
 

The final delivery will be an individual “Juvenilia project”, comprised of: a
“radiography” of a precedent space, a Fragment-That-Never- Existed (FTNE ie. a video, collage or physical fragment), a project text, sections/plans/volumetry and five images of a fully accomplished building. Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (eg. Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Rhinoceros (Grasshopper is an advantage) is a minimum requirement. Prompt weekly attendance is compulsory.

Start of the studio: Friday 06/10/2017, 9:30am.

Regular presentations or ‘Pin-Ups’: Fridays, 9:30-12:00.
Workshops: Fridays 13:00, plus (irregularly) Saturdays
Guest critics will be invited for mid-term and final reviews.

Excursion: the studio organizes an excursion to Switzerland (13th to 18th October). It is highly recommended to join the excursion (not mandatory). 

Juvenilia is a studio run by Dom Gross with Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds
(Pa.LaC.E, palacepalace.com) and supported by Vera Bühlmann and Georg Fassl.