MARETOPIA

The course “Small Buildings - Floating Utopias” taught in the Spring term of 2014 at Konstfack’s Bachelor degree in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design, was realized in collaboration with Maretopia. The course focused on how students in team work can develop and integrate interior architecture and furniture design in a floating construction.

 

After the course the students were expected to have given proof of their ability to collaborate in a process where spatial and design integrated ideas are tested, documented and developed through representations, models and drawings with the objective to produce and build a final prototype which then is tested and evaluated. The aim is to explore, test and develop a construction which in a larger social perspective can be a prolongation of the public space in a city in a future floating utopia.

 

The course contained a series of lectures in which experts, researchers and artists presented theories, terms, methods and discussed with the students various ways of relating to the subject Floating Utopia from a historical and contemporary perspective.

 

In collaboration with Interactive Institute the students learned about design anthropological methods in order to in the process of examination create possible future scenarios moving between current and future social needs in the public space. This had the objective to map design principles to be used in a construction departing from the demands of a society.