Assistant Professor, Michael McKay, taught a PERFORMA workshop at Lund University, School of Architecture, Department of Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics in Sweden. The two week workshop was part of a semester long studio, directed by Abelardo Gonzalez, composed of visiting guest professors.
During the workshop students physically tested simple units and semi-finished materials to unveil their performative characteristics and limitations. These limitations were then negotiated through rigorous digital and physical techniques to produce strategies of fabrication. This process allowed a complex system to emerge from a single unit's combinatory characteristics. In this way, a great deal of variation and spatial affect was created through an extremely efficient and simple aggregate.
The workshop ended with a full-scale installation and exhibition in the Lund University, School of Architecture's gallery.
Workshop Participants
Fredrik Petersson
Hillevi Olsson
Andreea Marcu
Bujar Abazaj
Lina Salomonsson
Tomas Ramstrand
Jonas Ersson
Marta Nestorow
Sofia Kanerud
Mattias Lindskog
Erik Revellé
Lucy Roth
Matilda Schuman
René Andersson
Oskar Edström
Per Hallström
Sara Hellgren
Svante Karlsson
*Special thanks to Gareth Lewis, Peter Lövendahl and TetraPAK
