Date: 26 September – 06 October 2016
Manila meets Berlin
SoFa Design Institute, Manila
Students of the SoFa Design Institute in Manila immerse themselves in Berlin to get influenced by its peculiar milieu. In this Design Studio, they try a new, empathetic approach to architecture that better serves diverse communities.
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SoFA Design Institute is a young college of design located in the burgeoning megalopolis that is contemporary Manila. The agenda of our first ANCB studio was motivated by the question of how a designer might be influenced in a positive way by the dislocation and disorientation experienced when suddenly immersed in a foreign milieu. For this reason we began our investigations almost immediately after arriving in Berlin.
Our approach in this class considered design first and foremost as cultural work – and we assigned to the designers a responsibility to make visible the vague outlines of their overlapping and sometimes habitual cultural biases. By blending personal interests with compassionately imagined client stories, the students were motivated to consider an architecture in the service of society. Through the medium of narrative design, they were also able to conjure an architecture that expressed their own creative impulse.
This university design studio is part of the ANCB theme Learning From.
What if..
”We could cultivate more globally aware architects?
Studio Coordinators
Tobias Guggenheimer
Group Photo
Group Photo
Photos © Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory
