Design at Riverside, is located on the campus of University of Waterloo School of Architecture in the historic former Riverside Silk Mill. Situated along the banks of the Grand River in Cambridge, the gallery showcases the work of students in the graduate and undergraduate programs.
The
Shared
Spaces
ARC
393
Studio
Final
Projects
Show
December
14
-
18,
2022
Design
at
Riverside,
Main
Gallery
The
goal
of
this
mixed-media
studio
is
to
explore
a
methodological
framework
for
creative
processes
at
the
intersection
of
art
and
architecture
through
research
discussion,
experimentation,
and
project
development
in
response
to
our
complex
and
shared
social
realities
Students
"distill
methodologies"
from
the
work
of
selected
representative
contemporary
artists,
and
conduct
research
on
pressing
topics
such
as
migration
experience,
environmental
injustice,
and
social
isolation
in
the
pandemic,
all
of
which
are
linked
to
local
and
universal
contemporary
conditions.
The
methodological
and
topical
research
contributes
to
the
major
component:
the
individual
projects
that
combine
a
variety
of
media
chosen
from
video,
image,
installation,
sound,
and
performance.
Projects Review 2022
November
1 -
December
2,
2022
Design
at
Riverside,
Main
Gallery
Online
exhibition
Projects Review is an annual exhibition of undergraduate and graduate projects from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. The exhibition celebrates student works that critically engage a wide variety of architectural discourses. The projects on display were produced between May 2021 and April 2022.
Undergraduate studios take on contemporary issues facing the practice of architecture, from post-pandemic music venues to urban growth strategies for sustainable communities. Electives and core coursework engage new design methodologies, such as utilizing computational workflows or living organisms to redefine landscapes. Graduate projects are defined by self-directed theses that explore pertinent territories of architecture in the 21st century.
SPONSORS
This
exhibition
is
generously
sponsored
by
Cornerstone
Architecture
Incorporated
and
SvN
Architects
+
Planners.
EXHIBITION
CREDITS
Faculty
Support
Maya
Przybylski
David
Correa
Curator
James
Clarke-Hicks
Prototypica_
June
20
-
July 22,
2022
Design
at
Riverside,
Main
Gallery
This exhibition shows the work of Alexander Gontarz, Jessica Hanzelkova, Nathanael Scheffler and Ye Sul E. Cho.
Prototypica_ is a four-person group proposal focused on the themes of digital fabrication, collective making, process-based prototyping, and tactile interaction. The exhibit will centre on a series of physical prototypes pulled from each thesis, with supporting material in the form of drawings, displayed artifacts, interactive activities, and short videos.
The exhibit offers a reflection on prototyping as a means to test, prove, and explore ideas (those three things but not in any particular order). It is a marked alternative to the common mode of working with prototypes, which typically uses them to craft a singular object or refine a production process. Their prototypes are instead a glimpse into several simultaneous thoughts, each one building on the curiosities of the other.
They imagine futures of connection. Human to machine, human to human, and human to material synergies that feed communality, agency based in making, open-source knowledge, and inclusionary design. Unmaking. Redoing. Unlearning. Reimagining. Repairing. Remixing. In times like these, what better way to spend an afternoon? They’ve missed building things together.