Foundation Studio: Regimes of Care
D’Arcy Newberry-Dupé and Dr Sam Spurr
Architecture Design Studio
School of Architecture and Built Environment
The Univeristy of Newcastle, NSW
2021, 2022, 2023
D’Arcy Newberry-Dupé and Dr Sam Spurr
Architecture Design Studio
School of Architecture and Built Environment
The Univeristy of Newcastle, NSW
2021, 2022, 2023
Written and coordinated by D’Arcy Newberry-Dupé in collaboration with Associate Professor Sam Spurr, Head of Discipline, Architecture.
This course was the second semester of Foundation Studios for the Bachelor of Architecture (Design) at The University of Newcastle for 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The studio was a pedagogical shift for the foundations curriculum, towards a radically inclusive, equitable pedagogy that held in its content ways of working with care in the Anthropocene.
With an acknowledgment of the climate crisis, it also sought to encompass the needs of differently abled bodies, more then human worlds and work with Country, rather than ‘site’.
The assessment briefs across the semester moved across scales of attention.
Project 01 begins with the intimate scale of the human body - working with a hybrid-body as site, and initiating design at the point of connection between form and flesh.
In Project 02, program is introduced and the form is shifted, transformed and rescaled through event, the program and events collide human and non-human user in the gaps, crevices and nooks of the re-scaled space, that houses an exhibition and residence.
The final iteration, Project 03 lands the now building scale forms on a toxic landscape. A post-industrial site that requires students to reconcile the complex user groups, histories and timelines of place, acknowledging this Country as unceded, and significant to the traditional owners, the Awabakal and Worimi people - and grappling with it’s current condition and classification as ‘brownfield’, having been artificially capped to contain the pollutants below.
The pedagogical aims and outcomes from this studio were presented at ‘Situated Ecologies of Care’, Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) International Conference, in Portsmouth, UK, October 2023.
This course was the second semester of Foundation Studios for the Bachelor of Architecture (Design) at The University of Newcastle for 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The studio was a pedagogical shift for the foundations curriculum, towards a radically inclusive, equitable pedagogy that held in its content ways of working with care in the Anthropocene.
With an acknowledgment of the climate crisis, it also sought to encompass the needs of differently abled bodies, more then human worlds and work with Country, rather than ‘site’.
The assessment briefs across the semester moved across scales of attention.
Project 01 begins with the intimate scale of the human body - working with a hybrid-body as site, and initiating design at the point of connection between form and flesh.
In Project 02, program is introduced and the form is shifted, transformed and rescaled through event, the program and events collide human and non-human user in the gaps, crevices and nooks of the re-scaled space, that houses an exhibition and residence.
The final iteration, Project 03 lands the now building scale forms on a toxic landscape. A post-industrial site that requires students to reconcile the complex user groups, histories and timelines of place, acknowledging this Country as unceded, and significant to the traditional owners, the Awabakal and Worimi people - and grappling with it’s current condition and classification as ‘brownfield’, having been artificially capped to contain the pollutants below.
The pedagogical aims and outcomes from this studio were presented at ‘Situated Ecologies of Care’, Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) International Conference, in Portsmouth, UK, October 2023.