Studio 4
The Studio 4 module focuses on discussion and enactment of expanded forms of practice. The students explore and probe diverse ways in which designers work today, with practices that expand beyond the traditional confines of visual communication. Researching and discussing examples, students position themselves and their own forms of expanded practice within the current canon. Using their nascent thesis project as a theme, they then investigate forms of materialization, media and spatial settings that can frame and mediate their work. The final result is a self-organized, self-curated exhibition where all thesis themes are presented for the first time, connected by an overarching theme and curatorial intention. In this materialization exercise, the students push themselves outside of their comfort zone, reflecting on the nature of their own practice and on the ambitions their thesis project sets out to fulfill.
