Studio-X Global Network Initiative
Studio-X is GSAPP’s global network of advanced research laboratories for exploring the future of cities. With locations in Amman, Beijing, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, and Rio de Janeiro, it is the first truly global network for real-time exchange of projects, people, and ideas between regional leadership cities in which the best minds from Columbia University can think together with the best minds in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia.
Studio-X is a new platform for incubating a whole new kind of conversation about the future of the built environment – intense collaborative workshop by day, energizing event space by night. Each Studio-X location generates a remarkable density of activity and is equally important. But the real energy of the network comes from the activities generated between the nodes. Read Dean Mark Wigley’s statement about Studio-X to learn more.
Reflections & Opportunities: Design, Cities, and the World Cup
Thursday May 10, 2012
6:30pm
Studio-X Rio
Free and Open to Public
Book launch and lecture by Zahira Asmal.
The World Cup 2010 provided an opportunity for South African cities to be reimagined. The investment and infrastructural impetus of the mega event became a catalyst for many public space and public transport projects, which sought to rewire South African cities into more connected, better integrated, more accessible and thus more democratic urban environments.
Ideas Meeting: Urban Territories - The City and the Relationship between Spaces and People
Thursday May 17, 2012
6:30pm
Studio-X Rio
Free and Open to Public
Marcus Vinicius Faustini in conversation with Pedro Rivera.
Marcus Vinicius Faustini is an actor, director, cultural producer and founder of the NGO Reperiferia. He was the Secretary of Culture in Nova Iguaçu where he is now the leader of its Free School of Cinema. He is also a writer and author of Affective Guide of the Periphery.
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In Metropolis magazine’s feature article this month, reporter Ian Volner asks whether Studio-X is the future of design education.
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Safari 4, a Self-Guided Tour of Urban Wildlife, is on Display on Beijing’s No. 4 Line
Urban Landscape Lab, an experimental research lab of Studio-X | GSAPP, has launched Safari 4, a public art project installation on Beijing’s No. 4 subway line through which Beijing residents can explore urban animal life in the city. Safari 4 features installed videos and map brochures throughout Beijing’s newest subway line, offering riders a self-guided tour of Beijing’s most vibrant ecosystems. This project is the second installment of a series of global wildlife tours, which began in 2009 with Safari 7, a tour of New York City’s Number 7 line. After Beijing, the project will travel to other Studio-X locations including São Paulo, Mumbai, Amman, and Moscow. Click here to learn more or visit the Safari 4 website.
The Studio-X New York Guide to Liberating New Forms of Conversation is available online
Before there was a global network of Studio-X research/cultural hubs in Amman, Beijing, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro, there was Studio-X NY. Started in 2008 as the “pilot” Studio-X program, GSAPP’s 180 Varick Street location was unadvertised and largely invisible to the public, tucked away behind an unmarked door on the 16th floor of a nondescript office building in Lower Manhattan. This guide serves as a blueprint for how Studio-X NY developed the infrastructure, identity, and audience for liberating new forms of conversation about our shared urban future.
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Read about the making of The Studio-X NY Guide in Domus
