a vocabulary for the public school (for architecture)
terms to be found in a discussion about evading the limits of architecture. this text was originally written for common circular 4 – public school (for architecture) fall 2009.itinerant: courses … will be organized throughout new york city as itinerant installations.
transitional
spaces in between
lobbies
corridors
vestibules
thresholds
institutional: we found that it would be more useful to consider re-programming existing typologies and institutional prototypes, than to propose new, explicitly, architectural solutions.
public institution
institutional architecture
public architecture
public space
public sphere
public school
public access
public knowledge
public: a public for the school and for architecture must be created, or create itself, by engaging in the potential for self-organization.
self-organizing
feedback
social systems
group collaboration
shared experience
collective intelligence
encounter
engagement
engage: acquire meaning through varied engagement of class participants.
participate
user
implicate
motivate
produce
actor
audience
student: “not something that can really be used by a student.”
pupil
learning
instructor
educator
explicator
teacher
critic
peer
architect: “i’m not an architect so maybe this is naive.”
architecture
discipline
disciplinary
inter-disciplinary
boundaries
community
field
practice
process: working to-scale in the built environment is a productive form of negotiation.
dialogue
discussion
exchange
discourse
equality
knowledge
exchange
forum
classroom: to install classrooms in semi-public transitional spaces.
teaching
learning
room
panel
workshop
lab
lecture
pedagogy: “the state of education today.”
curriculum
understanding
ignorant
knowing
unknowing
emancipation
unequal
equal
open: the lounge will be open to the public each wednesday.
openness
radical
openness
open
work
open up
open-ended
undetermined
unknown
future: the future of the public school (for architecture).
possible
impossible
more
continue
continuing
shape
free: “these practices are never free.”
free from
free of
free for all
set free
emancipate
consciousness
self-conscious
self-organize
community: reactivate community into a productive force that can begin to make sense of current cultural conditions.
groups
group
together
common room
common interests
common area
commons boundary
definition
the public school (for architecture) new york
common circular 4 – public school for architecture new york fall 2009