RESILIENT SKIN_code, Milan_Italy
Resilient SKIN-code is an AA Visiting School set up in Milan, Italy. The School aims to explore new relationships and links between different disciplines, specifically between Architecture and Fashion design. The research focuses on the ergonomic scale, therefore we look at Architecture in the form of a small scale structure, such a pavilion, Fashion in the form of a wearable construct and both are explored, in the eyes of sustainable criteria. The result is supposed to be something between a shelter and a garment. We do so caressing the idea that it is time for technology to embrace the heritage of craft.
During the last two decades, both disciplines have been drawing influences from each other, in terms of form finding processes, digital techniques, digital fabrication processes, material organization and more. These industries are in constant transformation and advancement; hence their relationships are in constant flux and relentless new formation.
If we look closely to these two disciplines, though, we would discover that they are not just iconic activities, they are also systemic activities, and in fact they are mediums to organize relationships and communication between the three distinct worlds we know: spiritual, physical and digital. And they do so mostly engaging in a transversal ecological praxis. They are, in other words, capable to construct not just spaces or garments, but proper cognitive maps.
We are interested to discover if there is a way to combine the knowledge, models and tools of these two disciplines in a sort of ‘cyborgian hybrid’ capable to investigate and deal with resilient scenarios of ecological praxis where, to quote Guattari, ‘the psyche, the socius, and the environment are not regarded as separate’.
In this workshop, we are inviting the students to research this new formation by working collaboratively to construct a 3d manifestation of this new link, as a form of a meaningful intervention, contributing to the city and is site-specific to Milan. This intervention will suggest an efficient way of installation and dismantling, exploring sustainable ideas aligning with environmental considerations, which are in the heart of current global concerns.
Students are exposed to new advanced computational skills, fabrication tools, form finding and current theoretical thinking, guided by professionals from the academic world and practitioners from both disciplines.
- [status] ongoing
- [location] Milan_Italy
- [type] workshop
- [date] 7th-18th October 2019
- [area] n/a
- [commission type] Architectural Association Visiting School Milan in collaboration with Polytechnic of Milan
- [Program Heads] Ilaria Di Carlo, Anat Stern
- [tutors] Mattia Santi, Francesca Silvi, Arantza Vilas
- [students] Nomad Monad Project: Gavril Balan, Natalia Romero Muñoz, Ana Carolina Jimenez Rivas, Maria Rocha Bomeny; The HK Banned Mask Project: Kim Hyunggyu, Abdullah Alsanea, Anastasiia Bushkova, Jingyi Ge, Tina Kalantary; Pleat a Morphosis Project: Maria Anishchenko, Kathrerine Guimapang, Arundika Weerasekera, Aida Issakhankyzy, Irina Balan
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RESILIENT SKIN_code, Milan_Italy
Resilient SKIN-code is an AA Visiting School set up in Milan, Italy. The School aims to explore new relationships and links between different disciplines, specifically between Architecture and Fashion design. The research focuses on the ergonomic scale, therefore we look at Architecture in the form of a small scale structure, such a pavilion, Fashion in the form of a wearable construct and both are explored, in the eyes of sustainable criteria. The result is supposed to be something between a shelter and a garment. We do so caressing the idea that it is time for technology to embrace the heritage of craft.
During the last two decades, both disciplines have been drawing influences from each other, in terms of form finding processes, digital techniques, digital fabrication processes, material organization and more. These industries are in constant transformation and advancement; hence their relationships are in constant flux and relentless new formation.
If we look closely to these two disciplines, though, we would discover that they are not just iconic activities, they are also systemic activities, and in fact they are mediums to organize relationships and communication between the three distinct worlds we know: spiritual, physical and digital. And they do so mostly engaging in a transversal ecological praxis. They are, in other words, capable to construct not just spaces or garments, but proper cognitive maps.
We are interested to discover if there is a way to combine the knowledge, models and tools of these two disciplines in a sort of ‘cyborgian hybrid’ capable to investigate and deal with resilient scenarios of ecological praxis where, to quote Guattari, ‘the psyche, the socius, and the environment are not regarded as separate’.
In this workshop, we are inviting the students to research this new formation by working collaboratively to construct a 3d manifestation of this new link, as a form of a meaningful intervention, contributing to the city and is site-specific to Milan. This intervention will suggest an efficient way of installation and dismantling, exploring sustainable ideas aligning with environmental considerations, which are in the heart of current global concerns.
Students are exposed to new advanced computational skills, fabrication tools, form finding and current theoretical thinking, guided by professionals from the academic world and practitioners from both disciplines.