THRESHOLD STUDIO
DES 302 Design Studio IV
University of British Columbia
Syllabus and Ex.1 curriculum by Fionn Byrne
Co-taught with: Divine Ndemeye
TAs: Chloe Boisvert, Andrew Hood, Annika Dixon-Reusz, Katie Theall
2024
Threshold Studio is a 3rd year undergraduate studio that focuses on how the design of the land has been and continues to be implicated in the city’s social and political transformations. In this class, students were asked to change their orientation to the land by deepening their understandings of socio-cultural and ecological entanglements and digging into the past to unearth settler-colonial legacies and infrastructures of control. Working at the architectural and urban scale, this studio was divided into design exercises of 2 contested sites: UBC campus and Gastown.
Drawing by Anna Bulatova
Model by Hedy Wei, Samuel Tso, and Paul Zheng
Sensory Path by Mengyi Ma and Urim Shin
Communal Backyard by Ena Nogami and Mengyi Ma
Re-framing [Her]story by Channing Ferguson
Kinship and Displacement: Shifts in Human-Animal Relationships by Anna Bulatova and Tnvir Mattu
Invisible Boundary by Hedy Wei and Rabia Siddiqui
Gastown: A Historical Veneer by Natalie Au and Ben Noel
[De]paving the Past by Kaylee Charland and Khawlah Khan