Topics

Process

Craft
Geometry
Orthographic Projection
Drawing
Representation
Experimentation
Documentation
Presentation
Low Tech/ Low Fi/ Elemental
Settings, Situations, Events

Content

Experience-Philosophy
Time-Deep and Shallow
Invention & Precedent
Social Relations and Constructs
Politics & Social Transformation
Values & Taste
Context, Integrity & Autonomy
Cultural Productions/ Productions of Culture

Subjects

Beauty, Aesthetics
Modernism & Modernity
Social Programmes
Process, craft, methods of production
Banal, Everyday
Ambiguous and Explicit works
Invention, experimentation and proposition
Light & Dark/ Shadows
Experience and Knowledge-(life actions and the pursuit of...)
Public & Private motivations and Identities

Politics
Adorno-Mass Media, Mass Consciousness
Chomsky-Political propaganda
Religion, Secularism, Corporatist, Authoritarianism, Communism, Capitalism
Edward Said- Beginnings and Social Commentary

Art
Installation Art
Performance Art
Rudolf Arnheim
Paul Klee
Francis Bacon
Film-Hitchcock, Wenders

Philosophy & Theory
Phenomenology & Perception
Merleau Ponty
Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Jacques Ranciere
Michel Foucault
Joyce, Pasolini, Pessoa, Pynchon
John Dewey, Pragmatism, "Art as Experience"
Umberto Eco- Open Work


Architects & Architecture
Alvaro Siza
Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Adolf Loos
Herzog DeMeuron, Peter Zumthor, David Adjaye
Alvar Aalto

Interiors-Interiority and Inhabitation
Urbanism
Form, Surface-Drawing
Representation
Precedent, Tradition, Historicism, Context and Relational Autonomy