Imagining Modular Furniture for Common Spaces

Project Leads: Platform W12

Number of participants:  12

Duration: 5 days

Project Outline:

Imagining Modular Furniture for Common Spaces is a week-long workshop and a working session that seeks to imagine and conceptualise modular furniture’s and structures that can be adapted to public spaces in and around White City. We want to scrutinise and explore these systems by conceptualising and rapid prototyping in a highly charged environment. White City needs spaces where ideas can grow and spontaneous encounters are encouraged. These spaces are created and maintained by students – they can appear and disappear, be appropriated and re-appropriated, used and reused. These spaces should become areas of exchange and host a variety of occasions. The project is informed by studying and understanding social, environmental and in-between spaces and raises questions of the relationship of the institution and its immediate environment, especially in White City, where creativity is still trying to find its own space. The aim is to challenge the corporate architectural environment and build friendly, human and beneficial spaces for students, staff, guests and the public. The conceptual realm takes roots in the politics of space, the ongoing studio-space negotiations and the research on the expectations for furniture conducted by Le Corbusier in the 1920s.

Participants will be invited to attend a follow-up workshop after AcrossRCA to construct the furniture and structures designed during the project.

Timetable:

Day 1

Introduction: what is a space representing communication?
Tour around the building and introduction of the spaces
Activities based on ideas of communal space utilization
Guest in the morning with an architect tutor

Day 2

What is a modular furniture?
Guest in the morning with The Decorators
http://the-decorators.net/About

Day 3
Reflexion on medium and materials
Morning with a Design product tutor

Day 4
Prototyping

Day 5
End of prototyping + visual outcome of the project + exhibition of the project