PROPOSED TIMELINE: TRAVELLING TO: Winy Maas (MVRDV / t?f ), Javier Arpa (t?f @TU Delft),. Vivian Mitsogianni & Ben M
N E T H E R L A N D S This studio is a collaboration between The Why Factory and RMIT Melbourne. Students from Australia will travel to Delft during the last weeks of the studio and will work collaberately with TUDeft students. The Why Factory is dedicated to creating future cities; the Ball Fiction Studio will scale up this vision. Starting from a precise “What if…?” question to draw a hypothetical scenario, and continuing with global data projections and research, each student will develop one of those scenarios that will change the world (dramatically) in the next 100 years. This change will be explored on all scales; from global to territorial, to architectural typology, down to innovation on a building technology scale: what are the details that change the world? This studio will challenge students to interrogate the fundamental shapers of their scenario on a 1:50, 1:20, 1:10, 1:1… scale. Ball Fiction will guide students through this process of formulating and visualizing their future fantasies: learning to dream big, to prepare them with the skills and tools to imagine – then effect – change. How does our life change? How do we commute and how do we consume? What is the urgency and how can we communicate this to global leaders? At the end of the studio, each student will be asked to produce, among other material, a physical model -their World (i.e. their Ball)- depicting their future fantasies, as well as an animated movie exploring the implementation of their scenarios and their impacts on -literally- the horizon. The resulting collection of fictional balls will be part of an installation to be setup in Delft and other venues to be announced.
Information session will be held in 2018 refer to your student emails.
Architecture
& Urban Design
BALL FICTION TUTORS: Winy Maas (MVRDV / t?f ), Javier Arpa (t?f @TU Delft), Vivian Mitsogianni & Ben Milbourne (RMIT Architecture & Urban Design)
PROPOSED TIMELINE: Semester 1 2018, weeks 8-12 in Melbourne, followed by intensive workshop at TU Delft during inter-semester break. Dates TBC.
TRAVELLING TO: Delft, Netherlands [Delft is 20 mins by train away from Rotterdam and 50mins from Amsterdam. RMIT Support: Students can apply for RMIT Student Travel Scholarships and Grants see: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/life-and-work-opportunities/global-study-and-work/ costs-and-scholarships. Note that travelling students will not be eligible for RMIT Global Experience grants, however may be eligible for other forms of funding. Students may apply for OS-HELP loans. Further advice will be provided at the briefing session. Maximum number of students: 12. Information session will be held on Monday 19 Feburary 2018 refer to your student emails. Contact: Ben Milbourne (ben.milbourne@ rmit.edu.au) and cc Vivian Mitsogianni (
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