Pathways: A Collaboration With Sumner High School

3 units

Students will work as mentors to collaborate and undertake a co-designed installation project with the students in the Sumner High School Studio Lab in the Ville. In the course, students will hone their architectural expertise to develop strategies to connect design pedagogy to a high school learning environment through peer-to-peer learning. The class will consider how we can extend the knowledge of our discipline to community engagement, creating pathways for architectural education. Together with the students from Sumner, Wash U students will explore an architectural project focused on digital fabrication, pattern, and color that engages historic and contemporary compositions of the Ville neighborhood. The specific co-designed project will engage themes of temporality and permanence, cultural memory and projected futures while looking to the Sumner School and Ville community history to envision a new architectural imaginary. This course will be held in the Sumner Studiolab.