Title: Nature/Form/Process: A Workshop as a Tool to Test Intended Changes to the Course – Biomaterials: Designing With Living Systems
Stream: Academic Practices Outside the Classroom
Presentation Type: Workshop Presentation
Authors:
Raul Pinto, İzmir University of Economics, Turkey
Abstract:
This paper, describe the workshop Nature|Form|Process that was commissioned by Arkas Cultural Center. This workshop was held as a pre-event for the exhibition Nature|Gardens|Fantasies, a compilation of works from Arkas’ collection, that focused on offering opportunities to reconsider the relationship between art, nature, garden and humankind. As a conceptual construct to relate the two, the narrative focused on considering a Garden as the representation of something that comes to exist when humans approach Nature with Imagination. This led to the question – what can be considered a common outcome when Nature is approached through Process? – being Form, the premise that best embraces this description. This workshop was an opportunity to test the assumptions made for the restructuring of the course Biomaterials: Designing with Living Systems. For this, it looked to understand from the participants’ point-of-view, how students would act under similar circumstances (blended learning during covid-19 related lockdowns). In addition, to learn how to generate tools that mitigate frustration and stress that tends to amass due to subjective connotations, as is the perception of well-being when working with living-systems. Furthermore, because living-systems are resistant to change, these modifications should be suggested by stressing their phenotypic plasticity. Moreover, these changes should be monitored by paying attention to how those actions influenced alterations on its surroundings. Therefore these ripple effects have the potential to indicate how to deconstruct systematic problems, seeing that complexity in its majority is related to the fact that these systems are unpredictable, and in a constant flow.
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