Impending Certainties Studio

ARC 606 introduces the challenges of, and methods for designing architecture for unknowable futures. The studio expands the conversation of design into a space that questions assumptions of architecture’s agency in the world. Projects embrace an open attitude toward the possible forms that projects may take in the future using scenario-based and human-centered design approaches.
Inspired by the 2019 Jacques Rougerie Foundation design competition, this studio takes on the challenge of engaging both the impending certainty that technology will continue to inform and adapt our environments and simultaneously speculates on the hypothetical futures of architecture as a result, all the while sustaining an awareness of the existing conditions, economic drivers, social needs, cultural phenomenon, and environmental concerns which are consistently present in architecture. The innovative projects produced by the studio may predict the future of our civilization.