Readings

care, repair, and broken-world thinking

• Shannon Mattern, “Maintenance and Care” (2018). Introduction + choose one section
• Plan C, “What the f**k is social reproduction?” (2015). 3m 41s. 
• "David Graeber on the Value of Work", 4m 9s.
  
• Steven Jackson, “Rethinking Repair” (2018). p. 221-223, 227-231.
  
• Optional: Alejandro de Coss-Corzo, “Patchwork: repair labor and the logic of infrastructure adaptation in Mexico City” (2020).

M / Aug 8

7:00
    Intros, Warm-up, Community Guidelines
    Introducing the Studio
10:30
    Repair Workshop
    Introduction to Repair Manual activity and Personal Reflection Space

Tu / Aug 9

Museum Day - meet at Jardin Zenea
8:00
   Introduction to Taking Stock activity
9:00
    Introduction and Tour with director Paulina Macías
    Visit exhibits, see model
11:00
    Exploration, Sketching, Field work with Antonio

Th / Aug 11

8:00
    Lucas/Cynthia short presentations
    Desk Crits + Work Session for Repair Manual
    Pin-ups of field work
    In-class reading activity

Fr / Aug 12









Repair Manual DUE @ 6pm on Sunday Aug 14

Fabrication Day
8:00
    Pin-ups/Desk Crits
    Introduction to Collective Model activity
    Fab Lab tour with Camerino

DICI capacitation training

    Walk-through drawings together
    Split work for modelling and drawing

Readings

embodied thinking and methods

• Donna Haraway, “Situated Knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective” (1988). p.583-584, 589-590.
• Bruno Latour and Albena Yaneva, “Give Me a Gun and I Will Make All Buildings Move”: An ANT’s View of Architecture. p.80-89
  
• Monica Smith, “Why Cities?” (2019).

M / Aug 15

8:00
    Warm-up
    Pin-up
10:00
    Guest workshop Sandra Hernandez
12:00
    Activity/Lecture
    Discussion

Tu / Aug 16

Museum Day - meet at the Museo Regional
8:00
   Fieldwork
11:30
   Guest speaker Jaime Font
1:00
   Fieldwork + Discussion

Th / Aug 18

8:00
    Desk Crits
    In-class reading activity + input
    Rhino Workshop 1

Fr / Aug 19

Fabrication Day
   Work on models
   Desk Crits
    Welding Workshop 1

Readings

decolonization, degrowth

• Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, “Decolonization is not a Metaphor” (2012). Spanish version here.
• Ana Maria Leon and Andrew Herscher, “At the Border of Decolonization” (2020). Spanish version here.
• Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, “Ch'ixinakax utxiwa. Una reflexión sobre prácticas y discursos descolonizadores” (2010). p.53-73.
• Jason Hickel, “The anti-colonial politics of degrowth” (2021)

M / Aug 22

8:00
    Rhino Workshop 2
    Activity/Lecture
    Desk Crits

Tu / Aug 23

Museum Day - meet at the Museo Regional

Th / Aug 25

8:00
   Activity/Lecture
   Desk Crits

17:00 
   Guest speakers from Confederación Indígena del Barrio de San Francisquito

Fr / Aug 26



Taking Stock DUE @ 6pm Sunday Aug 28

Fabrication Day
   Work on models
   Desk Crits
   Welding Workshop 2

Readings

tools, technology, data, knowledge

• Ursula Le Guin, "A Rant about 'Technology'" (2004).  
  
• Mario Carpo, The Second Digital Turn. 2017.
• Aimi Hamraie, “Chapter 4. Sloped Technoscience: Curb Cuts, Critical Frictions, and Disability (Maker) Cultures” (2017). Building Access. p.95-130.
• Optional: Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein, "Introduction: Why Data Science needs Feminism" (2020). From “Data and Power” section onward.
• Optional: Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System” (2018). Emergence Magazine Podcast episode 54m 19s.
• Optional: Shannon Mattern, A City is Not a Computer (2021).
  

M / Aug 29

8:00
    Pin-up and Review of Taking Stock activity
12:00
    Guest speakers Ian Erickson, Oliver Moldow
1:00
    Introduce Artifact as Portal activity

Tu / Aug 30

Museum Day - meet at the Museo Regional
8:00
   Fieldwork and choose artifacts
11:30
   3D scanning workshop

Th / Sep 1

8:00
   Guest speaker Leah Wulfman
   Activity/Lecture
   Desk Crits

Fr / Sep 2

Fabrication Day
8:00
   Desk Crits + Review individual models
11:00
   3D printing workshop
12:00
   Fabricate + Review collective models

Readings

archives, memory

• Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory” (1995). p.91-99
• Michel Foucault, “The Historical a priori and the Archive,” The Archive ed. Charles Merewether (2006). p.26-30
• “Museum of Obsessions / Agency for Intellectual Guest Labour” (2018).

M / Sep 5

8:00
   Desk Crits
10:00
   Guest speaker Yu-Ting Chang
11:00
   Desk Crits

Tu / Sep 6

Museum Day - meet at the Museo Regional
8:00
   Mount QR codes
9:00
   Review Artifact as Portal activity with Guest Critics
12:00
   Guest speaker Ana Angelina Trujillo

Th / Sep 8

8:00
   Desk Crits - troubleshooting part 2 of Artifact as Portal
9:00
   Guest speaker Bajo Tierra Museo de Agua
   Guest speaker ebere agwuncha
12:00
   Desk Crits + Work on Models

Fr / Sep 9

Artifact as Portal DUE @ 23:59 Sep 11

Fabrication Day

Readings

legal instruments 

• Interboro, “Arsenal of Inclusion and Exclusion” (2016).  Selected excerpts here.
• Nick Perry, “New Zealand river's personhood status offers hope to Maori” (2022).
• Liz Mason-Deese, “Countermapping” (2020). 
• tbd

M / Sep 12

8:00
   Introduction to Legal Interventions activity
9:00
   Guest speakers Chelsea Kilburn, Andy Lee, Kari Roynesdal
10:00
   Part I of Legal Interventions activity
1:00
   Guest speaker David Jiménez  

Tu / Sep 13

8:00
    Input on Legal Tools
    Part II of Legal Interventions activity
11:30
    Review Artifact as Portal projects
12:30
    Part II of Legal Interventions activity cont’d
    Guest reviewer Paco Bulos

Th / Sep 15

Legal Intervention DUE @ 23:59 Thurs Sep 15

Fabrication Day

Readings

science fiction, critical speculation

• The Intercept + The Leap, “A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair” (2020). 8m 57s. 
• Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. “Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative” (2018)
• Movement for Black Lives, “Black Futures: An Ode to Freedom Summer” (2020). 5m 37s.
• Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. “Ch'ixinakax utxiwa. Una reflexión sobre prácticas y discursos descolonizadores” p.53-73.
  
• Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby. Speculative Everything. 2013
  

M / Sep 19

8:00
    Part I of Future Histories activity
    Guest workshop Israel Viadest

Tu / Sep 20

8:00
    Part II of Future Histories activity
    Guest workshop Elisa Rodríguez of Menjurje.tv

Th / Sep 22

8:00
   Desk Crits
   AfterEffects Workshop 1

Fr / Sep 23

Fabrication Day
8:00
   Guest speaker Arta Perezic

Readings

spatial agency, speculative institutions and infrastructures

• Ann Lui, “Toward an Office of the Public Architect” in Log 48: Expanding Modes of Practice (2020). p. 39-52
  
• tbd

M / Sep 26

8:00
    Desk Crits
    AfterEffects Workshop 2

Tu / Sep 27

Fabrication Day

Th / Sep 29

8:00
   Desk Crits
    AfterEffects Workshop 3 + troubleshooting

Fr / Sep 30

Fabrication Day

M / Oct 3

Future Histories DUE @ 23:59 Mon Oct 3

8:00
    Desk Crits
    AfterEffects troubleshooting

Tu / Oct 4

Fabrication Day

Th / Oct 6

Fabrication Day

Fr / Oct 7

Collective Model DUE @ end of class

Fabrication Day
    Collective Model DUE at the end of class

M / Oct 10

8:00
   Taking Stock reprise 
   Desk crits

Tu / Oct 11

8:00
   Taking Stock reprise
   Desk crits

Th / Oct 13

Taking Stock reprise DUE @ 8am

Museum Day - meet at the Museo Regional
8:00
    In-class mock run of midterm
    Set up at Museum

Fr / Oct 14

M / Oct 17

8:00
    Midterm reflections and post-mortem
    Begin Repair Manifesto part I

Tu / Oct 18

8:00
   Group Desk Crits and 1-on-1 feedback
   Work on Repair Manifesto part II

Th / Oct 20

8:00
   Group Desk Crits and 1-on-1 feedback
   Work on Repair Manifesto part III

Fr / Oct 21

Repair Manifesto DUE @ 2:00pm

8:00
   Desk Crits
   FINISH Repair Manifesto, due at end of class time

M / Oct 24

8:00
   Announcements and Desk Crits
9:00
   PechaKucha with Alberto Meouchi, Isabel Strauss, Sophie Chien, Fiona Riley, christin hu, Francois Sabourin, Jakob Junghanss, Elif Erez, Bailey Brown
12:30
   Desk Crits

Tu / Oct 25

8:00
   Desk crits
11:00
   PIN-UP of Repair Manifesto and Progress check #1

Th / Oct 27

8:00
    Desk Crits

Fr / Oct 28

8:00
   Desk Crits
9:00
   Guest speaker Kathy Kao
10:00 
   Desk Crits

M / Oct 31

8:00
   PIN-UP and in-class grading session

Tu / Nov 1

8:00
   Desk crits

Th / Nov 3

8:00
   Desk Crits

Fr / Nov 4

8:00
   Desk Crits

M / Nov 7

8:00
   PIN-UP and in-class grading session

Tu / Nov 8

8:00
   Desk crits

Th / Nov 10

8:00
   Desk Crits

Fr / Nov 11

8:00
   Desk Crits

M / Nov 14

8:00
   Desk Crits

Tu / Nov 15

8:00
    PIN-UP and in-class grading session

Th / Nov 17

8:00
   Desk Crits

Fr / Nov 18

8:00
   Desk Crits

M / Nov 21

8:00
   PIN-UP and in-class grading session

Tu / Nov 22

8:00
   Desk crits

Th / Nov 24

8:00
   Desk Crits

Fr / Nov 25

8:00
   MOCK FINAL REVIEW

M / Nov 28

8:00
   Desk crits

Tu / Nov 29

8:00
   Desk crits

Th / Dec 1

8:00
   Desk crits

Fr / Dec 2

FINAL REVIEW