DRAWING CITY MANIFESTOS: Rural - Urban Fringe
Fall 2023
The FRINGE is an ambiguous and ubiquitous patchwork of zones that form a wide range of territorial landscapes which can be characterized as neither distinctly urban nor distinctly rural. Driven by narratives of unrelenting and perpetual urbanization, the FRINGE constitutes the global engine for rural transformation and urban growth, a site for extractive industries, a territory for agricultural and technological production, and a continuous land supply for architectural development and the expansion of urbanites. Formerly understood as peripheral, these multivalent rural-urban zones constitute new conceptual centers for architecture and urbanism. The seminar will discover and speculate upon these landscapes through drawings and modes of representations. The seminar will study city manifestos as precedents for analysis and design provocation in order to elicit alternate resonances between the rural-urban attributes and imagery. Utilizing the theoretical underpinnings of precedent manifestos, student will select a rural-urban context to explore for the development of a visual manifesto. The focus is to experiment with different forms of visual narratives, from image-based drawing to augmented reality and immersive visualization. Students will develop their own representational repertoire and a critical narrative of the rural-urban transformation through a series of guided design exercises
