Van Alen Institute is pleased to invite students and faculty to participate in a workshop with New York Prize Fellow Gabi Schillig.

Starting from a reflection on the spatial and social distances that define New York City’s public spaces, workshop participants will design and develop their own wearable devices to mediate between the human body and the built environment. Participants will work with a range of fabrics (surface formations) and linear flexible materials (line formations), and will experiment with various geometric principles and spatial techniques to allow different social spaces and interactions to emerge. The resulting body structures will move away from a static and autonomous architecture towards open systems and soft geometries.

The workshop will take place with a selected group of students from Kadambari Baxi´s design studio of Columbia University New York City and some students from Berlin. Asterios Agkathidis will be joining as a guest critic!

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