Notes to Future Students — Directors Ludwig Engel & Julian Schubert in conversation with Public Sandberg

STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES

Studio for Immediate Spaces is a two-year Master’s program on spatial practices (MA Interior Architecture) that questions how politics, ecology, society, technology, and economy manifest in space. The term “immediacy” in the course title relates to both physical adjacency and urgency of response. Likewise, space is a theoretical entity and an empirical reality, each continuously informing the other. The aim of the program is thus to explore possibilities to work and act in space, and to guide the course participants toward critical positions that can bear a positive and productive engagement with the world around them. Testing and shaping their practices through site-specific works, location-based installations, situated research, and context-driven scenography, course participants will be supported to find their own spatial strategies with an eye on the most critical issues of our time, such as anthropogenic ecological collapse, socioeconomic divide, and increased political polarization.

Studio for Immediate Spaces invites “undisciplinary spatialists” from backgrounds ranging from architecture, design and art to urban studies, anthropology and beyond who prefer collaborative efforts of making space over the alleged gestures of the genius individual master. Applicants are asked to apply with a research project as the two-year program offers the opportunity to develop an intimate and long-term engagement with a specific context and theme. In this regard, the Studio is set up as a collaborative post-disciplinary laboratory for testing ideas that have relevance for how we live today and how we could live tomorrow—in other words, how to come together and collectively manage work, leisure, resources, and general commons.