What If SHE?
Academic, Columbia University, Spring 2018
Studio: What If | Tutors: Sarah Dunn + Martin Felsen
Description:
SHE
• is a statement in which ideas of utopia, leisure, and pride in being female are played out
• suggests a narrative for all women, especially oppressed and so called ‘bad’
• is a manifestation against patriarchal social structure and ideas of normatively/propriety
• resists easy definition and defies confinement
• is surreal, she is fantastic, she is grotesque
• accepts every color of expression
• is a beautiful monster where monstrousness is human, political and a metaphor for goodness
• possesses intimacy and connectedness and defies objectification with her spectacular interior
• is phantasmagoric, open, colorful and carnivalesque, ready for birth
• is interactive and explorable, deliberately too large to be taken in and consumed from different angles
• is a shelter, a protector, an ideal of cultural strength, central to the community
• is fundamentally a challenge to the sexist precepts of public representation
• is a celebration of sexual liberty and humanity
• is right in the middle of social interaction, actively being the spectator and the subject, autonomous and politically conscious
Envisioning the interiors of Lump and Secret Garden by Peter Cook
Envisioning the interiors of Ville Spatiale by Yona Friedman
Envisioning the interiors of Continous Monument by Superstudio