Exhibition: (Un)Common Workshops

Friday, September 22nd at 9:00 am to Friday, October 6th, 2023 at 4:00 pm

In-person event
Lightroom Gallery Architecture Building, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

Date: Until Friday, October 6, 2023

Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Location: Lightroom Gallery, Architecture Building, Carleton University

Free and open to the public

This exhibition displays work by students from workshops during the last academic year that explored the relationship between architecture and literature, gastronomy, and music.

It was developed in parallel with the (Un)Common Precedents Agora II International Symposium to test the potential of three disciplines outside of architecture to inform the design process.

The music workshop was a week-long assignment for which first-year students made drawings as a hybrid between graphic musical scores and architectural spaces. It was taught by Instructor Isabel Potworowski and developed by Professor Federica Goffi, of ASAU, and Professor Jesse Stewart, head of Carleton University’s music department. At the conclusion of the conference, held in the Architecture Building, one of these scores was performed by a Carleton music student. The performance, Sounding the Precedent, is based on a drawing-score by student Nikki Sond.

The gastronomy workshop was a semester-long assignment for the PhD “Daedalic exercises” class, taught by Associate Professor Sheryl Boyle. Students studied recipe books from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, and selected one recipe to remake. At the centre of this exercise is the concept of craft knowledge, working ‘with stuff’ rather than thinking ‘about stuff,’ and experimentation through making.

PhD Students featured: Simone Fallica | Michelle Liu
MAS Student featured: Stephanie Murray
MArch Students featured: Miriam Doyle | Mark Meneguzzi

The literature workshop was a two-week assignment as part of the fourth-year urbanism studio taught by Assistant Professor Suzy Harris-Brandts. Inspired by the design-research methods of Dr. Klaske Havik, students drew from author Margo Rejmer’s book, Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania, to better comprehend the protagonists of their project site in Tirana, Albania. These narratives were spatialized in large experiential collages.