ARRIVI >>> PARTENZE
Arrivals >>> Departures
Design and Storytelling in Orvieto, Italy
Spring 2020
The Kansas State University Italian Studies Program offered three courses taught by Architecture Planning and Design Faculty in Orvieto, Italy. All students were enrolled in the studio course Arrivi >>> Partenze and were evenly divided into two seminars: Posto e Penna taught by Associate Professor Blake Belanger and Image + Memory taught by Assistant Professor Adriana Molina. This website is dedicated to sharing the outcomes of the semester with the citizens of Orvieto, the APDesign community, and the rest of the world.
SPRING COURSES 2020
Studio Arrivi >>> Partenze: Arrivals and Departures in Orvieto (Belanger and Molina)
Moments of arrival and departure are dynamic events in the process of experiencing a new place. The studio course focused on understanding the history and context of Orvieto and developing design proposals for improving the arrival and departure experience in the northeast district of Corsica.
Seminar Posto e Penna: Narratives, senses, and experiential image-making (Belanger)
For a designer to effectively begin placemaking they must understand the background, context, narratives, and stories of the place within which they are working. Posto e Penna focused on the relationship between place narratives, sensory observations, and experiential image-making.
Seminar Image + Memory (Molina)
The perception and understanding of place is typically underlined across all design professions. For this course, the students engaged in a series of spatial experiments, as well as analytical exercises to translate their spatial perceptions with the historical context of Orvieto. The analytical process was approached by creating a series of diagrams, images and maps, as the students relied on their own observations, hand drawn documentation, reflections and ultimately, memory.
"Our bodies and movements are in constant interaction with the environment; the world and the self inform and redefine each other constantly. The percept of the body and the image of the world turn into one single continuous existential experience; there is no body separate from its domicile in space, and there is no space unrelated to the unconscious image of the perceiving self.”
Juhani Pallasmaa
