Research-led teaching project, 2019 SO1 Design Studio, Human Emerging | Emerging Human, RMIT Architecture

Main Design Studio Lecturer: Caitlyn Parry
Guest lecturer: Lucy Irvine

Lucy Irvine's doctoral research addresses some of the epistemological repercussions of how we map, model and make, asking whether these methods reinforce dualisms and distance or recognise knowledge makers as participant bodies in a phenomenal world. Emerging Geometries and Emergent Form were two classes devised and presented at the penultimate stage of this research. The materials-based collaborative and individual tasks challenged the architecture students’ digital comfort zones and led to an understanding of how tacit knowledge could enrich the design process. Further strategies for teaching and designing are currently being theorised as a result of this hands-on education as research. The final studio project by two of the participating students was selected for the 2019 Best Student Prize, RMIT Architecture.