Teaching period: 9th-16th of November, 2022
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Teacher(s):
Architect and a Lecturer Mattia Pretolani (EPFL)
Artist and a Lecturer Mari Bastashevski (NTNU)
ECTS: 3 ECTS
Number of available places for KUNO students: 6 - 12
Level: BA /MA
Course description: Artists, architects, philosophers, and scientists all rely on models as an interface between what is desired and what is actualized. Each discipline, and each project, has a different relationship to the model and its materiality. Models may be recruited to work as highly realistic replicas of reality, as virtual worlds for adjusting or comprehending material conditions, idiosyncratic, world making, and, occasionally, they set up using deliberately faulty parameters. In this short course we will be focusing on critical thinking with models, and examining models as fully concluded work - rather than as a model that is part of a process. We will focus on the critical, yet tacit, method of knowledge production from conception to construction. Crucially, we will be focused on models in architecture; models as objects that occupy three-dimensional space; models that will serve as vantage points onto different materials and the material conditions of our environment, as foundations for thinking and skills in relation to construction, and as direct influence on the development of a given project.
These models may allow the artists to observe a desired constructed scenario, or understand “real world” conditions, but, first and foremost, we hope they will allow participants to understand the efficacy of the model as medium, and as a concept, and learn to discern the implications of different model-making principles in our world.
This course consists of multiple lectures, which are immediately followed by group discussions, and model-making sessions during which the participants will be using plaster wood, cardboard, and earth. The following principles and practices will be given particular attention: molding, various construction and assembly techniques, understandings of scale, and transitions between scale and space.
Application deadline: 1 October; results announced 4 October.
How to apply: Please send a PDF, including a short motivation letter (include your full name, home university, study level, and contact information) and 3-5 photos of previous works (e.g. as portfolio, electronic versions, or web links) to: maria.aamand@ntnu.no
Financial Support by KUNO:
Travel support between countries: 330 € (except 660 € to/from Iceland)
Subsistence per week: 100 €
In case of any questions:
For practical questions questions please contact Maria Aamand: Maria.aamand@ntnu.no
For questions pertaining to the course itself, contact: marianna.h.bastashevski@ntnu.no
More information on the course on the course assignments, results and schedule.
