Your task through this frontier is to (observe) acknowledge, capture and catalog vital information to (in)form fresh ingredients for y/our practice. - Extract from brief.
Our task in frontier 2 is to engage in an obsesive study and pursuit of an "other", to uncover, observe and document outcomes/methodologies that will contribute towards developing meaningful seeds towards the design of the last Frontier (Frontier09-Station).
How do you design for the other? Who are they? What methodologies can be used to strengthen the act of designing for others? – While undoing the constructed mythologies of them. Stranger? Fellow Citizen?
What is the value of the other in our practice? Who is the other, and how do they relate to other others? The other is both single and many. Within the fundamental responsibility of the architectural practice is the service to the other, in the simplest sense being the creation of space for the other.
Relationship advice: What is the relationship with space and people? Is it always better to give people space? What if you have no more space? What if peoples need for proximity far outweighs their needs for space or quality? What responsibility does the Architect have to understand their context, outside of the topography and climate, towards deeper understandings of society, economics at play, spatial politics and futures.
This brief pushes you beyond the previous realm of the self. It is not about experience or personal. It's about other. Other kinds. Types. Things. Influences. People. Places. Uncommon and unfamiliar. A mining of information from the terrains and deposits outside of yourself, a territory one step away from you. It means you will need to go there. To consciously pursue some other in an obsessive manner.
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