Readings

repair and pedagogy

• Pedagogy reference Are.na (open channel! feel free to add)
• Various authors. koozArch Issue #03 New Rules for School 
• Jorge Otero-Pailos in conversation with Nancy Levinson and Frances Richard. Repairing Architecture Schools. Places Journal. 2024.
• Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till. Introduction to Spatial Agency; other ways of doing architecture
• Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Zosia Dzierzawaska. New Rules for a Generous School of Architecture. 2021. 
  
• Elisa Iturbe. articles on “Architecture and Carbon Modernity”. (shorter) + (longer). 
  
• Shannon Mattern. “Maintenance and Care” (2018). 
• Steven Jackson. “Rethinking Repair” (2018). p. 221-223, 227-231.

M / Aug 5

9:00 - 13:00
    Welcome and warm-up
    Get-to-know-you presentations with head instructors
    Course introduction
    Discussion on Learning
    Introduction to Carrier Bag Space

DICI capacitation training part 1

Tu / Aug 6

9:00 - 13:00
    Introduction Activity 1
    Input: Scales of Repair
    Discuss Are.na references

DICI capacitation training part 2

W / Aug 7

Activity 1 notecard DUE end of class

9:00 - 12:00
    Input: Climate Change, Construction, Extraction
    Discuss collected items
    Activity 1 work

Th / Aug 8

12:00 - 18:00

    Rhino Workshop 

Fr / Aug 9


Activity 1 DUE Aug 11

12:00 - 20:00
    Rhino Workshop

Readings

reuse, misuse, play, collective objects

• Lionel Devlieger. Waste not: Rotor and the practice of deconstruction. 2019. 
• bureau SLA. Material Biographies: An Emotive Exploration of Material’s Identity. 2023.
• Cas Holman. Radical Play. 2023.
• Alice Paris. Technology, Extinction, and the Decorator Crab. 2022.
• Ana Miljacki. Not-Habits. 2020.
• Michel Serres. Theory of the Quasi-Object. 1982.

M / Aug 12

9:00 

    COLLECTIVE BUILD! 
    Introductions
    Skills for the Future: Reuse with Celia Chaussabel
    Project A

Tu / Aug 13

9:00
    COLLECTIVE BUILD!
    Project B

W / Aug 14

9:00
    COLLECTIVE BUILD!
    Project B

Th / Aug 15

9:00
    COLLECTIVE BUILD!
    Skills for the Future: Collaboration with Katie Rotman
    Project C

Fr / Aug 16

9:00
    COLLECTIVE BUILD!
    Project C

Readings

learning architecture otherwise

• bell hooks. Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice. 1995. 
• Ann Lui. Office of the Public Architect. 2020. 
• Sumayya Vally. Letter to a young architect. 2020.
• bell hooks. Introduction in Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. 1994.
  

M / Aug 19

9:00
    COLLECTIVE BUILD!
    Project C

Tu / Aug 20

9:00
    COLLECTIVE BUILD!
    Project C

W / Aug 21

9:00
    COLLECTIVE BUILD!
    Project C

Th / Aug 22

9:00
    COLLECTIVE BUILD!
    Project C

Fr / Aug 23

Activity 2 DUE Aug 25

9:00
    COLLECTIVE BUILD!
    Final Celebration and Documentation

Readings

architectural education past, present, future

• Rainer K. Wick. Three Preliminary Courses: Itten, Moholy-Nagy, Albers.
• Regina Bittner. Towards a Tangible Pedagogy.
• Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio Galán, Evangelos Kotisioris, Anna-Maria Meister. Introduction to Radical Pedagogies. Spanish alt summary here.
  
• Bryony Roberts and Abriannah Aiken. map of “Feminist Spatial Practices, Part 1”.
• Comunal et al. Pedagogías Comunas para una Producción Colectiva del Hábitat. 2023.

M / Aug 26

9:00
    Announcements + Intro Activity 3
    Notes on History of Architecture Schools with Joaquín Barriendos

Tu / Aug 27

9:00
    Desk Crits
    Class mapping activity

W / Aug 28

9:00
    Arquitectura y Política en América Latina with Josep Montaner
    Desk Crits
    Notes on History of Architecture Schools with Marcelo Sánchez

Th / Aug 29

9:00
    Desk Crits

Fr / Aug 30

Activity 3 DUE Sep 1

9:00
    Final Pin-up Case Study Activity

Readings

on learning

• Paulo Freire. Chapter 2 of Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 1970.
• Ivan Illich. Deschooling Society. Chapter 6: Learning Webs. 1970.
• bell books. Teaching to Transgress. Chapter 1: Engaged Pedagogy, and Chapter 12: Confronting Class in the Classroom. 1994.
• Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner. What’s Worth Knowing. 1969.
• Silvia Federici. Re-enchanting the World. The University: A Knowledge Common? 2019. 
• Lisa Parks. Media Fixes: Thoughts on Repair Cultures. 2013.
• La Historia Jamás Contada. 08 / Educación para el buen vivir. 2022.

M / Sep 2

9:00
    MEET IN CENTRO HISTÓRICO
    Announcements + Intro Activity 4
    Guided Walk: Restoration with Luisa Medina and Paco Bulos
    Analysis of Architecture Pedagogies with Paola Barragan

Tu / Sep 3

10:00 - 1:00 
    MEET IN 14401
    Input School for Poetic Computation with Sara Martinez
    Input DistritoQRO with Paola Barcena
16:00 - 18:00
    MEET IN MU’TA BIOCULTURAL
    Inputs from Mu’Ta with Liz Harzbecher and Christian Robles, Coordinación de Sustentabilidad UAQ with Mercedes Cabrera, Revuelta/Club de Reparadores with Ana Jimena Luna

W / Sep 4

9:30 - 11:30
    MEET IN ESCUELA DE ARTES Y OFICIOS UAQ
    Tour and Input with Ing. Francisco García
12:00 - 2:00
    MEET IN EXPLANADA
    Input Water and Learning with Nadyeli Quiroz and Daniela Cruz
18:00 - 20:00
   MEET AT PLAZA BORREGO
   Rodada 0 with C-CUL and Pedeleanda

Th / Sep 5

9:30 - 11:30
    MEET IN 14401
    Input Digital Fabrication tools, Mixed Realities, and AI with Anaisabel Olvera
12:00 - 1:30    
    Input La transformación a través de la paz with Ciudad Justa, Aula Abierta and Café de la Paz

Fr / Sep 6

Activity 4 DUE Sept 8

12:30 - 1:30
   MEET IN EXPLANADA, be prepared to be outdoors starting at 14:00
   Input Colonialismo energético con Josefa Sánchez y Alberto Matarán
14:00 - 18:00   
    Talleres corporales with Mariana Covarrubias

Readings

futures and manifestos

• David J. Staley. Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education. Introduction. 2019.
• The Care Collective. The Care Manifesto. 2020.
• Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Manifesto for Maintenance Art. 1969.
• Huey P Newton and Bobby Seales. The Black Panthers: Ten Point Program. 1966.
• Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. Moratorium manifesto. 2022. [based on “Stop Building? A moratorium on new construction”. (shorter) + (longer).]
  
• Various authors, Collection of Architectural Manifestos.
• Various political manifestos, manifestos.net
• Ursula K. Le Guin. “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” 1986.
• Nicholas Nova & Anaïs Bloch. Dr. Smartphones: an ethnography of mobile phone repair shops. 2020.
• Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. 2013.
  

M / Sep 9

9:00
    Intro Activity 5 Manifesto
    Input on Manifestos
    Initial Exercises

Tu / Sep 10

9:00
    Futures Design Workshop with Isra Viadest

W / Sep 11

9:00
   Manifesto development activities

Th / Sep 12

9:00
   Manifesto development activities

Fr / Sep 13

Activity 5 DUE Sept 15

9:00
   Final Pin-up Manifestos

Readings

embodied thinking + architectural ethnography

• 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
  
• Junzo Kuroda, Momoyo Kaijima, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. Made in Tokyo: Guide Book
• Momoyo Kaijima. Learning from Architectural Ethnography. 2018.
• Momoyo Kaijima. Video: Architectural Ethnography. Seminario Arquitectura y Etnografía. FAADC UDLA. 2021.
• Raymond Lucas. Anthropology for Architects. Intro + Chapter 1. 2020.
• Marie Combette. Video: Levantamientos etnográficos, colecciones y cartografías. 2020.
• Please read and catch up with the readings/resources from Week 5 On Learning

M / Sep 16

HOLIDAY

Tu / Sep 17

9:00
    FIELD TRIP TO SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE (van leaves Tec at 9am)
    ︎ info on visit to SMA!

W / Sep 18

9:00
   Intro to Project: School of _____
   Urban ethnography workshop

Th / Sep 19

11:00-12:00
   Zoom: Input Biomaterials with Alejandro Weiss / LABVA
(On your own time)
   Carry out urban ethnography activities at your site(s)

Fr / Sep 20

9:00
   Official Desk Crits (all projects)

9:00 - 17:00
    Intensive Rhino + Grasshopper Workshop

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 / Sep 23

10:00
    Zoom: Input Philosophy of Technology and Tools with Lucas Hoops
11:30
    Zoom: Input Games as Pedagogy with christin hu
17:00 - 20:00
    Laboratorio Arquitectura Avanzada: Rhino + Grasshopper Workshop  

Tu / Sep 24

9:00 - 2:00
    Work Session + Desk Crits AO + CD

W / Sep 25

9:00
   Input Laboratorio de Circularidad with Adriana Rivas
11:00
   Work Session + Desk Crits NQ

Th / Sep 26

10:00 - 12:00
    Official Desk Crits (3 projects)
17:00 - 20:00
    Laboratorio Arquitectura Avanzada: Rhino + Grasshopper Workshop

Fr / Sep 27

9:00
   Official Desk Crits (5 projects)

M / Sep 30

9:00 
    Input Architecture of Schools with Gerardo Martinez
    Work Session + Desk Crits AO + CD
    3D Printing workshop

Tu / Oct 1

ASUETO

W / Oct 2

9:00
   Input Digital Circularity and Computational Reuse with Keith Lee
   Desk Crits AF + CD

Th / Oct 3

9:00
   Desk Crits DC + LM + YT

Fr / Oct 4

9:00
   PROJECT MID-REVIEW

M / Oct 7

9:00
   Desk Crits
10:00
   Zoom: Input Laboratorio de Biomateriales Anabel Barreda
   Feria de Proyectos Arquitectura Avanzada with campus Puebla - be prepared to present your project progress, your next steps and open questions.

Tu / Oct 8

9:00
    Guest Desk Crits CC + KR
    Work Session + Desk Crits AO + CD
    Laboratorio de Alta Tecnologia

W / Oct 9

9:00
    AfterEffects Workshop

Th / Oct 10

9:00 - 1:00
   Official Desk Crits AF + LM + CD
10:00
   Input: Unlearning and (un)studio with Antoine, Gianna, Kyra & Noémie of EPFL
1:00
   Cricut Demo + Rhino Clipping Plane Demo

Fr / Oct 11

9:00
   Official Desk Crits

M / Oct 14

9:00
   Desk Crits AO

Tu / Oct 15

9:00
  Desk Crits CD

W / Oct 16

9:00
   Desk Crits NQ

Th / Oct 17

9:00
   Desk Crits AF + LM + CD

Fr / Oct 18

9:00
   CRIT DAY

M / Oct 21

9:00
  Desk Crits AO + CD

Tu / Oct 22

9:00
    Festival de Reparación + Club de Reparadores!

W / Oct 23

9:00
   Desk Crits NQ 

Th / Oct 24

9:00
   Desk Crits AF + LM + CD

Fr / Oct 25

9:00
   Desk Crits LH + DC + CD

M / Oct 28

9:00
   PROJECT FINAL REVIEW

Tu / Oct 29

9:00
    FIELD TRIP TO CAETEC for warm-up activities for Future Artifact/Enactment

W / Oct 30

9:00
    Input: Enactments in Art
    Future Artifact/Enactment Development Activities

Th / Oct 31

9:00
    Input: Experiential Futures + Initial Idea Pin-up with Isra Viadest
11:00
    Input: Alternative Pedagogies and Learning Dynamics
     Future Artifact/Enactment Development Activities

Fr / Nov 1

9:00
    MEET AT CENTRO CULTURAL LA VIA (location)
    Input: Workshop on Choreography with Alejandro Chavez of CIUDAD INTERIOR
11:00
     Future Artifact/Enactment Development Activities (location)

M / Nov 4

9:00
   Future Artifact/Enactment Work

Tu / Nov 5

9:00
   Future Artifact/Enactment Work

W / Nov 6

9:00
   Future Artifact/Enactment Work

Th / Nov 7

9:00
   FUTURE ENACTMENTS DAY 1

Fr / Nov 8

9:00
   FUTURE ENACTMENTS DAY 2

M / Nov 11

9:00
   Intro+Agenda for next two weeks
   Intensive Project Development Work to completion
   Mandatory Desk Crits

Tu / Nov 12

Completed Project DUE before Weds class begins

9:00
   Intensive Project Development Work to completion
   Mandatory Desk Crits

W / Nov 13

9:00
   Intro to Book + Expo
   Template Presentation
    Exporting and Printing workshop for Activity 3 zines
    Layout and Print Activity 5
    Desk Crits Activity 6+7 Booklet

Th / Nov 14

9:00
   Print Course Description handouts
   Print Activity 2 zines
   Print and Fold Activity 4 zines
   Desk Crits Activity 6+7 Booklet

Fr / Nov 15

9:00
   Desk Crits Activity 6+7 Booklet
  VISIT CENTRO DE ARTE EMERGENTE
   Collective Exhibition Design Session

M / Nov 18

Completed Book PDF DUE before Tues class begins

ASUETO

Tu / Nov 19

Completed Printed Book DUE before Weds class begins

9:00
   Collective Exhibition Design + Fabrication
   Finish and Print Activity 6+7 Booklet

W / Nov 20

9:00
   Gallery-style Book Review
   Exhibition Installation @ CENTRO DE ARTE EMERGENTE
   Exhibition Fabrication

Th / Nov 21

9:00
    Exhibition Installation @ CENTRO DE ARTE EMERGENTE
    Exhibition Fabrication

Fr / Nov 22

9:00
   FINAL PRESENTATIONS @ CENTRO DE ARTE EMERGENTE