The studio begins with a month with Paul in Natural Habitats and finishes the year with Passages with Brian. The two are complementary but autonomous.

Natural Habitat: Cultivating the Domestic Façade (08 Sept to 07 Oct)

A residential dwelling is often conceived as an exclusive domain: a controlled refuge from the discomforts, fluctuations, and perceived threats of the natural environment. Enforcing this boundary is the exterior facade, which mediates a variety of environmental conditions — wind, heat, sunlight, moisture and sound — for the comfort and wellbeing of its human occupants. In light of rapid climate change and the subsequent degradation of ecosystems around the world, Natural Habitats aims to challenge this anthropocentric approach by expanding the role of facades to include the survival and prosperity of non-human species as well.

Passage (8 Oct to 18 Apr)

when there is nothing, in the pause between
snow and grass in the parks and at the street ends
—Say it, no ideas but in things—
nothing but the blank faces of the houses
and cylindrical trees
bent, forked by preconception and accident
split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained
secret—into the body of the light—

from Paterson by William Carlos Williams (1927)

Passage is an architectural, literary, biological, geographical, memorial, mercantile, touristic, legal, and cinematic thing. It is a part of, connection between, flight from, transit across, movement through, of a periodicity, and in approval. It is motile and dynamic. It is both durational and extensive in measure. Making sense of Passage in this studio is an intertwined two-fold relation between the things of practice and practice of things.
—Say it, no ideas but in things—