2013 SUMMER FOUNDATION

1. BARTLETT SHORT COURSES COORDINATOR, SABINE STORP: Sabine will have an overview of all short courses and work on creating new teaching opportunities in this potential new field of expansion of the Bartlett.

2. 2013 SUMMER FOUNDATION THEME: Architectural innovation for a Social Revolution.

3. MAIN COURSE's AIM: The program will provide students with a creative platform to improve their design Skills and to acquire new ones through experimentation in graphic media and physical fabrication.

4. PEDAGOGICAL BASIS:

• Problem-based learning> As postulating in the Summer Foundation Brief, it is important to help the students to build a conceptual and critical thinking as well as a consistent design ETHOS (within a PLAYFUL and ENJOYABLE atmosphere) by exercising their design skills through the experience of problem solving as a way of improving the world effectively.

• Learning through authentic assessments> Authentic assessment activities are designed to mimic the complexity of 'real world' situations that students may encounter in professional life, and require the application of a combination of skills related to knowledge, working skills and attitude.

• User Experience> I would also like to encourage you all to consider the User Experience as a systematic test of project interest, development and validity.

• Increasing student's creativity> the main goal of new learning procedures is to link the validity of knowledge to the experience of its construction. We, as Tutors, will guide the students to achieve their own goals, encouraging them to adopt a professional and mature attitude toward their project development, and therefore, a highly conscious design experience in a non linear learning protocol (to increase creativity).

• Students’ projects’ Brief> During workshop 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, each student will write an A4 Brief that would describe their project developed within the Workshop’s goals and students’ personal interest. This brief is an attempt to allow the student to exercise her or his decision making and communication skills (see the slide number 13).

GENERAL ORGANIZATION:

A. ROUTE A AND ROUTE B. the Summer Foundation consist of two consecutive courses:

• ROUTE A: Running from Monday July 29th till Friday 30th August, 5 weeks long.

• ROUTE B: Running from Monday July 29th till Friday the 20th September, three weeks extension of the previous one.

B. 2 STUDENTS GROUPS: in order to facilitate the academic evolution of the students, the total number of Summer Foundation Students has been divided in two groups. GROUP 1 (18 students) and GROUP 2 (19 students).

C. COURSE TIMETABLE: from 9:30am to 17:30pm (45min lunch break).

• All extra tutorials will be held on Wednesdays, from 18:00 to 19:00.

• Friday afternoon will be dedicated to register all the work through photography and other graphic media.

• Saturday mornings will be dedicated to visits (common activities) and CRITS.

D. SIX DIFFERENT WORKSHOPS: the Summer Foundation will offer 5 different one-week-long workshops in ROUTE A and one-week-long workshop in ROUTE B.

1. Route A+B, WORKSHOP 1: Drawing. Anne Ryan.2. Route A+B, WORKSHOP 2: Technical drawing applied to urban space design. Antoine Hertenberger.3. Route A+B, WORKSHOP 3: Fashion design. Carlos Jimenez.4. Route A+B, WORKSHOP 4: Model making. Catrina Stewart. 5. Route A+B, WORKSHOP 5: Furniture Design and Fabrication. Carlos Jimenez.6. Route B+B, WORKSHOP 6: Fabricating inhabitable spaces. Casaleganitos (+ CARTONLAB).

D. FINAL CALENDAR:

ROUTE B. July and August.

ROUTE A and ROUTE B. July and August.

GENERAL ORGANIZATION:

E. EXTRA ACTIVITIES: To reinforce the Summer Foundation programme, we have organized a series of activities:

• Tutorial InDesign, Portfolio (Wednesday afternoons, from 18:00 to 19:00).

• Volunteer tutorial: Video Making (Wednesday afternoons, from 18:00 to 19:00).

• Performance sessions with movement director Lesley Hutchison, and drawing registration.

• Visit to museums: Victorian&Albert Museum, Sir John Soane candlelight night.

• CRITS (two CRITS in ROUTE A, and two CRITS in ROUTE B).

• Bartlett applicants meeting.

F. TUTORS' TEACHING SUPPORT: This year, the best BARTLETT’S YOUNG ARCHITECTS and BARTLETT’S DIPLOMA STUDENTS will be collaborating with the workshops’ directors as a way to increase horizontal learning from Bartlett’s knowledge sources.

• Route A+B, WORKSHOP 1: Artistic drawing, collage and live drawing. Anne Ryan as workshop director, assisted by Anna Mill.• Route A+B, WORKSHOP 2: Technical drawing applied to urban space design. Antoine Hertenberger as workshop director, assisted by Tim Zihong Yue.• Route A+B, WORKSHOP 3: Fashion design. Carlos Jimenez as workshop director. Assisted by Emma Clinton and Megan Smedy .• Route A+B, WORKSHOP 4: Model making. Catrina Stewart as workshop director, assisted by Victoria Bateman.• Route A+B, WORKSHOP 5: Furniture Design and Fabrication. Carlos Jimenez, assisted by Cartonlab. • Route B, WORKSHOP 6: Fabricating inhabitable spaces. Tutors: Casaleganitos, CARTONLAB, assisted by Megan Smedy and Tom Svilans.

GENERAL ORGANIZATION:

G. SUMMER FOUNDATION OUTCOME: The students will achieve a new set of design skills and a consistent Portfolio. To help the students accomplishing a good portfolio, the student’s will be able to join some INDESIGN tutorial organized during the first weeks of the course. This activity would allow you to develop in your own, a digital repository of all the information generated during the course.

H. BARTLETT FACILITIES:• Computer cluster (each student will have an individual loging code and password access to the UCL computers network).• The Light Room, run by Paul Smoothy, will be available for the students all Fridays of the course. • The Manual workshop, run by Abi Abdolwahabi, will be available during the 4th , 5th , and 6th workshops. • The Digital workshop, run by Emmanuel Vercruysse, will be available during the 3rd , 4th , 5th , and 6th workshops.• Online communication media: THE SUMMER FOUNDATION BLOG.

I. WORKING MATERIALS: Each student would receive a basic kit of materials and tools (paper, cardboard, rulers, tape and white glue). There would also be some extra tools provided to be used in pairs (cutting mat, French ruler, scalpel, blades, fashion measuring tape, sewing machine, etc.). During the development of the workshops, the students are encourage to provide extra materials (hand made, recycled ones, etc.).

• Recycle> Following the 2013 Summer Foundation ethos, we will do an special effort in reducing material consumption and recycling material waste as a way to build an environmental consciousness amongst the community of designers and architects.

F. SUMMER FOUNDATION PRIZE: This year, the Bartlett School will award the best student in ROUTE A and the Best student in ROUTE B.

WORKSHOPS’ BRIEFS:Route A+B, WORKSHOP 1: Painting, collage and live drawing. Anne Ryan as workshop director, assisted by Anna Mill.

WORKSHOPS’ BRIEFS:Route A+B, WORKSHOP 2: Technical drawing applied to urban space design. Antoine Hertenberger as workshop director, assisted by Tim Zihong Yue.

WORKSHOPS’ BRIEFS:Route A+B, WORKSHOP 3: Fashion design. Carlos Jimenez as workshop director. Assisted by Emma Clinton and Megan Smedy .

WORKSHOPS’ BRIEFS:Route A+B, WORKSHOP 4: Model making. Catrina Stewart as workshop director, assisted by Victoria Bateman.

WORKSHOPS’ BRIEFS:Route A+B, WORKSHOP 5: Furniture Design and Fabrication. Carlos Jimenez, assisted by CARTONLAB.

WORKSHOPS’ BRIEFS:Route B, WORKSHOP 6: Fabricating inhabitable spaces. Tutors: Casaleganitos, CARTONLAB, assisted by Megan Smedy and Tom Svilans.

INDIVIDUAL BRIEFS• VERY IMPORTANT TASK: Students’ projects’ Brief> During workshop

2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, each student will write an A4 Brief that would describe their project developed within the Workshop’s goals and students’ personal interest. This brief is an attempt to allow the student to exercise her or his decision making and communication skills. The Brief would describe two different sets of information (BRIEF AND AGENDA), answering the following questions:

• BRIEF:- what are you doing?- which is the purpose of it?- which are the media you would use to generate it?- who is the user that would take advantage of it?- how is it going to be used?- maintenance?- etc.

• AGENDA:- set of statements that support your proposal (environmental, social, cultural, economic, construction clues behind your project).

CLUES TO GET THE MAXIMUM OF THE 2013 SUMMER FOUNDATION

• ABOUT CREATIVITY:

• Creativity doesn´t happen in conditions of absolute freedom, creativity comes from the obsessive systematization of its search. Only the one who looks for it with steadfastness finds it. When free (without economic, cultural, social, and environmental constraints), we tend to repeat already tested and successful experiences.

• Creation is not a magic, unexpected and genius event, inherent to human beings. Creation is produced when we learn new skills, when we are open to others knowledge, when we experiment, and when we are not afraid of taking risks and failing. And that´s why it is so rear and difficult to produce.

• To Create, to Innovate, requires an enormous effort and dedication, and is, sometimes, painful, but it can also be accomplish when having a PAYFUL attitude.

• A good School will make understandable the need and sense of the Systematic effort protocol that leads to creation. The achievement of innovation would positively improve the WORLD.

• Creation requires time, no rush, CONCENTRATION, and CONTINUOS WORK.