FREE STUDIO: Liberation as Praxis

​FREE STUDIO envisions the academic design studio setting as an interdisciplinary space that elevates freedom of creative endeavor and a multiplicity of approaches.

​FREE STUDIO envisions the academic design studio setting as an interdisciplinary space that elevates freedom of creative endeavor and a multiplicity of approaches. FREE STUDIO connects the studio with abstract visual art, abolitionist practice, futurism and liberatory music concepts.The work of author/artist Patrisse Cullors, architect Sumayya Vally and Detroit Techno artists Underground Resistance and Jeff Mills, and others will be discussed. Opening up new ways of thinking [both from within and from without ourselves] can potentially lead to material changes in our bodies and our environment. FREE STUDIO is liberated from the constraints of grading, administrative systems, client concerns, programmatic limitations and prescribed outcomes. FREE STUDIO allows the flow of ideas from our pasts/heritages/cultures, from our tenuous yet precious present and from the future selves that we are becoming.

Requirements: Prepare to use any and all art/writing materials you have available in your work/homespace. This can be any medium, a multimedia approach - drawing, writing, collage, digital, photo, etc.

​This event will be facilitated by Gustavo Garcia Vaca.

​Please note: This event may be recorded for internal purposes. The recording will not be made public but some of the imagery and content from this session may be used for academic publications, resources and other digital or print purposes. By attending this session you are consenting to being recorded. Please get in touch with an organizer if you would like to discuss this, or would like to maintain your anonymity.