this past week, we did a collaborative workshop with the Industrial Design Engineering students from the RCA (Royal College of Art) in South Kensington. We spent our time over in their studios (with views of Hyde Park!), using their workshops and facilities to construct 1:1 scale models of randomly assigned structures.
8 teams were created with 5 DRL(me) students and 3IDE students each and the pictures can show some of the madness that was the process. my team consisted of 2 guys from Peru, an italian, a japanese, myself (all from the AA) and then an american from Aspen (finearts background), a brit (engineer), and an austrian (product designer). it was a ton of fun (especially to get away from our school for a bit) and we learned a bit how the attitude of other designers is different from ours.
a critique was held on friday, my team was one of 4 teams awarded a prize: dinner at Wagamama! yay. then we had beers in the space, and after a few, the constructions were destroyed at will by the crazyness of the students. then we all went to the RCA "Art Bar" which was quite a happening place, and proceeded to party. It was a nice relief to finally let loose with each other and not worry about a deadline the next day! i now am very aware, however, of how little 'dancing' i do, compared with the rest of the world. These people are insane!
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