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Social Infusion: The Theatre Of Spatial Diplomacy, Daley Wilson

Architecture Senior Theses

Due to the present global condition, urban environments that do not conform to

late-capitalistic desires, have faced the threat of gentrification. Through methods of

spatial diplomacy such as Brechtian programmatic pairings, this thesis will allow the

existing Kunsthaus Tacheles, which faces a crisis of squatter/artist culture versus

private commercial, to coexist in tension with new capital-producing programs

forming a social and spatial dialectic.

Festival Urbanism, Gabriella Morrone

Architecture Senior Theses

"Festivals, as modes of architectural production, can exist as provocations for change in our urban environments. The festival exists as a moment in time and as a distributed system which allows for the transformative capacity of space and the reconsidering of present conditions. Negotiating its temporality, the festival provides a critique on our current and primarily static architectural manifestations and their relationships to our rapidly changing social environments. Festival Urbanism is an experimental design which models a mode of architectural practice rooted in participatory design. Simultaneously as the architect, the planner, and the curator, I propose the construction a virtual …