Play Design Challenge

Mihael Ruja Michelle Lee Int Studio 2: Constructed Environments Bridge 3 Play Design Challenge What are the social-constructs that go into how play spaces are imagined and built? For this next assignment you will employ your observational and research skills to design a play structure, playscape or toy that elicits...Read more …

Site Investigation Group Project

Absence, vacancy, and desolation are terms that have been shared amongst our experiences of the Lenfest Center of the Arts. Through our multiple site visits the presence of absence has been the most visceral feeling. We move from our dorms, through the streets flowing with people, to the trains that...Read more …

Deep Listening

Mihael Ruja Michelle Lee Int Studio 2   Site Investigation: Deep Listening Are there manufactured sounds present? What is the background music/sound designed to do? How loudly or quietly do people speak in this space? Are there free flowing conversations occurring? Are there any natural ambient noise that contribute to...Read more …

Site Investigation Report, pt 1.

Mihael Ruja First Year Integrated Seminar 2 Constructed Environments Bridge 2: Context and Investigation Site Investigation Report 02/14/19   Site: Lenfest Center for the Arts (615 W. 129th St.) Notes: 9:00 am – Arrived at site. *Site, quietly, doing nothing* 9:45 am – Lenfest Center for the Arts is an...Read more …

Object Analysis Assignment

Mihael Ruja First Year Integrated Seminar 2 Constructed Environments Bridge 1: Inquiry Object Analysis Assignment Due Feb 7th.   Object Analysis: The AirPod   The EarPod and its modern counterpart the AirPod are unique objects of design that appear ubiquitous to the contemporary social landscape. The AirPod was brought to...Read more …