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Design Studio: Systems // Entanglements
Design Studio IV:Systems // Entanglements Undergraduate studio course in Environmental Design, UBC SALA 2020 Instructor: Nicole SylviaTeaching Assistants: Yekta Tehrani & Remi Landry Yuan Design Studio IV: systems // entanglements is a research-based studio that introduces students to contemporary discourses and practices around designing with(in) systems. Using food as a guiding theme, the studio explores…
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Lots in Common
Lots in Common First Prize, Mixing Middle Competition | Urbanarium, Vancouver | 2022Collaborators: Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Lőrinc Vass Re-Forming Domesticity Current attempts to address the housing crisis too often rely on conservative, nostalgic models of ownership—in turn largely failing to impact the interrelated problems of scarcity, homogeneity, unaffordability, unsustainability, and isolation. Rather, the very…
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Architecture in Context
Architecture in Context:Constructing Context(s) Undergraduate course in Environmental Design, UBC SALA, 2019+Instructor: Roy CloutierTeaching Assistants: Aya Abdelfatah, Patrick Birch, John Fache, Victoria Ng, Katrina Ross-Ghali, Rashmin Sorathiya, Alexander Turton, Shasha Wang Architecture in Context is a first-semester, open-enrollment undergraduate history/theory/drawing course that introduces students from across UBC to the notion of context in architecture, landscape…
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Tokyo Research Studio
Tokyo Research Studio UBC SALA Tokyo Study Abroad, Fall 2016 Organizers + instructors: George Wagner (professor, UBC SALA), Lőrinc Vass (sessional lecturer, UBC SALA), Mariko Abe (aabbé design architecture) The Tokyo Research Studio is a semester-long, graduate-level study abroad program from the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Comprising of a…
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Too Many Cooks!
Too Many Cooks! Drawing Kitchens Together Research paper, series of three drawings and fabulative recipes, 2020—ongoingPublication for Room Journal no.2 “The Kitchen” (forthcoming)Collaborators: Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Lőrinc Vass Perhaps more than any other conventional room, kitchens form a link between domesticity and larger networks. Everyday kitchen activities implicate us in multifarious webs of relation—from…
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Home in the Era of the Platform
Home in the Era of the Platform:Nine Theses on Decentralized Domesticity Research paper presented at the ACSA Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 12-14, 2020Collaborators: Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Lőrinc Vass Digitally networked platforms are transforming interpersonal relations and the occupation of urban space, including how home and the domestic are understood and enacted. Despite a…
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Bloc/Party
Bloc/Party:Sharing Against the Sharing Economy Research paper and series of four drawings, published in Bracket Journal no.4 [On Sharing] (forthcoming).Collaborators: Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Lőrinc Vass As the age-old notion of ‘sharing’ passes into contemporary capitalism to become the basis of ‘the sharing economy,’ its character changes fundamentally—taking on deeply aporetic implications. On one hand,…
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Chandigarh Research Studio
Chandigarh Research Studio Graduate study abroad programme in Chandigarh, India, 2017Organizers + instructors: Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia (UBC SALA) The Chandigarh Research Studio is a semester-long, graduate-level study abroad program from the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. It brought eleven UBC graduate architecture and landscape architecture students to the diverse…
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House S3
House S3:Shared Social Stories Missing Middle Competition / Urbanarium, Vancouver / 2018Special Mention PrizeCollaborators: Neal Qiongyu Li, Lőrinc Vass, Daichi Yamashita House S3 is a social platform where the stories of everyday life are shared. Proposed as an alternative to both the virtually unattainable and outmoded ideal of individual homeownership, as well as the increasingly unaffordable…
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After Nature
After NatureCrow’s Eye View & Blackberry Picking Public installation for the City of Vancouver Art Wrap Program, 2017Collaborators: Roy Cloutier, Pengfei Du, Jennifer Leung, Nicole Sylvia, Daichi Yamashita, Lőrinc Vass After Nature is an ongoing series of drawn investigations on the ever-evolving environments of Metro Vancouver. Looking beyond the conventional view that treats nature as something…
