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Material Kitchens and Erroneous Imitations

Course Description

The Material Kitchens paradigm, coined as part of the Natural Materials Lab at Columbia GSAPP, asks to rethink what a “material laboratory” is and by which means can engineered materials be evaluated for. It suggests multiple types of “kitchens”: a food kitchen, a lab, a manufacturing facility, an art studio, a field station. In this course, students investigated the realms of extensively variable materials and the transformative (and often, messy) processes they evoke; looking at historic precedents of traditional techniques, colonial imitations, and material “recipes” that involve raw geological products, plant-based fibers, animal friendly elements, fungi and living microorganisms.

Link to GSAPP Course: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/courses/18723-4753