Author(s): Stephanie Rae Lloyd
In *De Facto Providence*, a design-research advanced studio at the Rhode Island School of Design, students investigated contested urban conditions by foregrounding existing spatial practices and designing speculative assemblages for local publics. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS) and public theory, the studio employs a de facto methodology, which is grounded in historical research and assemblage thinking. A new pedagogical model that reframes architectural education as a practice of civic research and engagement allows students to develop a set of architectural propositions that critically attend to the spatial, political, and civic dimensions of cities.
Volume Editors
Reed Kroloff & Francisco J. RodrÃguez-Suárez
ISBN
978-1-944214-52-4