12/17/18: Class 73: Final Go-Around, Presentations, Governance & Springboarding ➰📆

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12/17/18: Class 73: Final Go-Around, Presentations, Governance & Springboarding ➰📆

Hi Projects, 🎅

We'll be meeting this afternoon for our final official class of the Fall '18 semester in room 901 of the NAB!

We'll touch base on grading before moving on to a class go-around. We'd like to ask you all to think about what additional forms or mechanisms beyond periodic presentations might be beneficial for supporting each others 'projects', these ideas will likely range from the general to the individual and you can feel free to also email us over the break if you have additional thoughts. We'll hear presentations form Zuri, Max, Yonatan, Walid and anyone else who'd like to share today.

As you're probably aware of by now, a lot of logistical changes and resets take place over academic breaks on the level of the board/admin and the three schools. Over the break we have a chance to stay in touch via this group email and possibly a few get togethers (video and/or in person)! We'd like to ask returning students this year to formally help introduce new students in the spring to areas of interest/themes/resources that have been coming up in Projects and at Cooper over the past months-years (recent-> historical) and will continue to brainstorm how this might be co-ordinated. Please feel free to keep using the google group to share relevant readings/resources, class re-caps, notes, reflections or even just to reach out to everyone💌

We'll spend the remainder of class today circling around on loose ends and looking at a Governance document as 'governance' seems both to be referenced frequently and hard to track down.

Thanks everyone for a challenging but engaged semester!

🏭

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Recap of last weeks class

  • Austin shared with us his experience dealing with the archives to look into the sites of Cooper's academic buildings (realized, demolished, speculative, and renovated)
  • Walid noted a some connection to shafts, heights, and crashes....💥
  • We spoke about how some anachronisms (no 90 degree angles in foundations exterior, building with I-beams, destabilization from the heavy bank note press) lead to effect present day layout of the buildings (the diagonal column, which rooms are classroom vs admin)
  • The renovation of Foundation Building by John Hedjuk was the 2nd most expensive renovation in the country, second only to the White House-- the timing lines up with the split of the Architecture School from the School of Art
  • We spent the rest of class reviewing the new language for the SoA  faculty searches and the 'Report of the Diversity Task Force'