WE-DESIGNS x Judd Foundation presents VITREOUS VITREOUS - Student run crowdsourcing collaborative design Project Video URL: ift.tt/1DX3KX9 Project Website: ift.tt/1DX3Ldn ACADEMIC PREMISE: Judd Foundation (Marfa, Texas) Collaborative Seminar – January – May 2013 (Spring 2013) A shape, a volume, a color, a surface is something itself. It shouldnt be concealed as part of a fairly different whole. - Donald Clarence Judd (1928–94) An academic and project collaboration between the Judd Foundation (Marfa, Texas), VITREOUS was an installation piece, a prototype and academic coursework project established by Prof Wendy W Fok, lead of the Digital Media & Design Program at the Gerald D Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston, and Doctoral Candidate at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Currently, a half-scale prototype has been constructed, with an ongoing fundraising campaign to further the development of the project. The course is to further investigate, critically examine, and apply both theoretical study and practical design-research into the highly debated idea of ‘delegated fabrication’, within the context of design-fabrication, in the field of architectural design. It has been widely publicized that most of Judd’s work from 1964 onwards was delegated rather than fabricated by the artist himself. Rather than constructing his work personally, Judd had it industrially fabricated—a practice criticized at the time but emulated today by many contemporary artists. The ambition is to develop an active prototype, whereby the cluster of fifteen students will work together to design, fabricate, and discuss the potentials of hands-on digital and analogue learning, while undertaking an active role of understanding the current contemporary role of fabrication in architecture, versus the available means of production during the time of Judd. The concept of the course is not to replicate the Minimalist works of Judd, but rather, to further the theoretical and practical understanding infused by the two, and investigates on the potential use of innovative means of delegated fabrication within architecture and design. Students were expected to investigate formal, geometrical, scalar, and material effects, along with understanding the larger potential of teamwork and practical applications of physical large-scale prototyping, and installation. A course trip to Marfa, Texas will be part of the expectation, while also collaborating with the Judd Foundation’s Programs Director. Students who participated in this project were expected to work with the Director of Development and myself at the Gerald D Hines College of Architecture to allocated sponsorships and funding opportunities around the region, and also initiate national partnerships with the USA Artists Project Campaign and Kickstarter Campaign. This opportunity encouraged students to be entrepreneurial, learn about project management, project development, fundraising and crowdsourcing, as well as project construction, design-fabrication, and installation. CREDITS: Institution: Gerald D Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston Faculty Lead: Prof Wendy W Fok Student Team: Business - Stephanie Balbin, Hai Luu, Katie Dominguez, David Yao, Megan Hartensteiner, Natalia Sanchez Design - David Rodriguez, David Regone, Christopher Al-Jumah, Brian Chiu, Ross Rudolph Technical - Kevin Pham, Tiger Lyon, Philip Bridges, Paul Suttles, Alexander Martin Music: Only Instrumental by Broke For Free (ift.tt/Adf87t) _______ FOLLOW LIPSapp Hits56 Radio _______ FB: r-js/1rlggeQ / TW: r-js/1us3SdS / Listen to LIPSapp Hits56 Radio r-js/1dOIQ18 #thewho #beatles #elvis #jimihendrix #dylan
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