Sem 9 | Spatial Arguments
Rohit Mujumdar
Spatial Arguments is a core course for the final year students at the School of Environment and Architecture. Its teaching objective is to develop capacities and skills of final year undergraduate students to conduct research and advance an architectural thesis, which is understood as a spatial argument on the nature of relationships between life and spatiality.
This course places an emphasis on understanding the significance of language and its structure in shaping knowledge about life and spatiality and invites student participants to draw out the nature of relationships between life and spatiality. Here, drawing out implies an exploration into the narrative structure of the spatial argument using texts, diagrams, architectural ethnographies, statistical analysis, audio, moving image etc. the use of textual, visual and multimedia narratives.
We cluster the work of the 39 student participants in the course into three themes:
(1) Imagination and Spatial Practice;
(2) Cultural Practices and Spatial Production; and,
(3) Claims, Everyday Practices and Spatial Affordances.
These are provisional clusters to draw diverse student works into conversation with one another. They hold the possibilities to generate further discussions on architectural research, which will be held in the Undergraduate Thesis Symposium between 1-3 December 2022 at the School of Environment and Architecture.