01. design studio ll

From this point forth, the project will start to shape up with a new perspective acquired after the design dialogs reviewers feedback and the personal reflections that followed. Nevertheless, the base concept remains. The focus of this project is people, public space and collectiveness.

Following the first term culmination and the corresponding feedback and analysis that followed, the decision was made that, in order for the project to deliver an outcome that aligns with the principles and ideological positioning of the researcher towards society, it had to be rethought and conceptualized accordingly from the beginning. This process developed as follows.

Taking from the three interventions performed in the first term of the design studio seminar, it became clear that the research approach was coherent to the project's goals from the beginning (1pp intervention) but then deviated in the urge to obtain results and engage with real people in a short time in the subsequent two interventions. And so, the research approach will recap from that checkpoint’s conclusions. This is not to say that the other two interventions will not be taken into consideration in any way. The insights gained from these actions helped shape the conceptual framing of this project and are part of the full process.

A second aspect that arose in the rethinking process, especially from the first person perspective approach and then becoming clear in the selected locations for the first intervention of the current term, is the researcher’s attraction to the peripheries. This brought into the conversation the concept of positioning. This positioning refers not only to a geographical area of interest but an ideological positioning, a conceptual positioning. What it means to be in the city peripheries, in the legal peripheries, in the attention focus’ peripheries.