In french, the noun “arrangements” both defines the arrangement of objects and the agreement of parts. Spatial organizations and power structures collapse in a single instance, where one defines the other and vice versa.

“arrangements” aims at the creation of Trans-Habitats, temporal and physical spaces where organic and inorganic elements find ecological logics of distribution, symbiosis and hierarchies. Starting from the understanding that nature is created as a process of ceaseless morphogenic modulations, “arrangements” explores the aesthetic of the event and of the ritual.

The course begins with the creation of a catalogue of 3d models of organic, inorganic and ideal objects. Each student will collect, curate and classify .obj from ready-made platonicshapes and photogrammetry 3d scans. In the second part of this first assignment, each student will use the same workflow to curate a shared catalogue of digital materials. Physical materials are synthesized in albedo, normal, roughness, height and ambient occlusion maps and reconstructed as Physical Based Rendering materials. The combination of the two catalogues will be used to explore materiality in between familiar and uncanny, digital and physical legibility.

Spring 2021 "ARRANGEMENTS"