A 5-days workshop will explore the construction of elastic spaces, to define a territory, to create a boundary between interior and exterior; how spaces might affect behaviour or movements. Clothing, kinetic art and architecture are reference points, both of which relate closely to the body. Spatially, these disciplines maybe represent the extremes of closeness and distance from the person, with many other possibilities in between.

The working process will include the determination of only white materials to work with; selecting words to identify aims or inspiration; relating ideas to existing works to contextualise ideas, and discussions will be used to develop thinking, making and realisation. The aim is to create changeable, temporary (soft) spaces / second skins that are able to extend the body´s capacities, that connects, disconnects and where the design process involves all senses.

Workshop / February 21-25, 2011
Lecture / February 23, 2011, 6p.m.

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LAU Beirut
Arch.532 Design Studio