ROYAL DANISH ACADEMY · COPENHAGEN

April 2024Nathalie Pozzi

Workshop and exhibition
SUS • Commentaries on Sustainability

In collaboration with
Eric Zimmerman
and with master students from Visual Game & Media Design

Contributors
Jakob Ion Wille and Jesper Juul

2024

Institution
Royal Danish Academy
Architecture, Design and Conservation

Photos and video
Frederik Kepp Bruun Lauenborg

SUS • Commentaries on Sustainability

Three playfully provocative, interactive commentaries on systemic issues of consumption, capitalism and sustainability.

Masters students in the Visual Game and Media Design program spent four days considering how to communicate the critical need around the environmental crisis, and the complexities around it.

A workshop led by Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman as part of the Climate Expedition Program

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Designers:
Anastasia Jacobsen
Mads Arvedsen
Samuel Mathiesen
Thora Magnusdottir
Milas Norman

Think of an object
that is meaningful to you.
Write a card,
explain why.
Place the card next to
an object of your choice.

Meaningful Object, 2024
Mixed Media

Designers:
Claudia Aybar
Mati Kalter
Beth Fuller
Kaspar Tosti

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Designers:
Elin van Bussel
Wiktoria Domeracka
Hongyan Song

”We need to get rid of the idea of global profit, finance, industries and brands. We need to get rid of advertising, and of all forms of sponsored communications, of the world of forms with no essence that has replaced our kids’ school and education.

Of all that exists to convince us that we need what we do not need, and that knowledge, wisdom and success can be easy and require no effort. We need to get rid of all the family-driven morals that could be all fine and well by themselves but that are all nonetheless blind. And we need to open our eyes towards a new collective ethic.

And then, we may also have new designs. Because the first condition to create good design is passion for transformation.”

- Enzo Mari

categories OUTREACH, LECTURES · WORKSHOPS, PLAY, EXHIBITIONS

PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN · NYC

May 2020Nathalie Pozzi

Part-time Faculty
2018-2019

ID Studio 1
ID Histories and Theories 3

Interior Design (AAS)
School of Constructed Environments
Parsons School Of Design

Teaching is an opportunity to explore the ethics and aesthetics of design.

As a practitioner, it is unsettling to recognize that contemporary design is part of a larger system of depletive consumption. The wish to “do more and better” sometimes obfuscates the importance of stepping back and recognizing that we can do better with less.

In 1906, Frank Alvah Parsons established the first academic interior design program in the United States. Parsons continues to lead this evolving field with programs including AAS Interior Design.

Encompassing a unique array of design disciplines, Parsons’ School of Constructed Environments (SCE) guides students in creating socially and environmentally sustainable, technologically innovative buildings, interiors, lighting, and products.

- Parsons’ School of Constructed Environments (SCE)

AAS ID Studio 1 introduces students to fundamental interior design issues.

The class is an opportunity to consider how spatial relationships, form, program, materials - as well as craft, fabrication, production, creative processes of problem solving and communication - can foster design practices that develop and value systems of regenerative non-consumption.

AAS ID Histories and Theories 3 investigates the premise that Interiors and Interior Design are connected to and need to be conversant with current world-shaping social, political, economic, and cultural forces and events.

The class works toward developing a critical approach to Interior Design, particularly in respect to issues of design as social practice and to sustainable design.

Mark Warfield - PARSONS - AAS - ID Studio 1 - Fall 2019

ID Studio 1

The projects presented are a selection of student work from ID Studio 1 in the Interior Design Department. Sophisticated and rich in their conceptual approach, each project carefully considers how to resolve a complex set of functional needs with the grounding principle of “do the most with the least”.

None of the projects follow the same approach: high flexibility, limited demolition, easy long term maintenance, and restrained use of resources and materials are some of the strategies explored in the development of these designs.

Cristina Sciarra - PARSONS - AAS - ID Studio 1 - Fall 2018

ID Studio 1 - Residential Assignment

The residential project asks students to design a live/work space for a professional client with a set of unique requirements. The live/work space to be developed is a cubical volume of 20 feet. The project requires the design of a double level.

The students will select a context and location, which will influence both functional and conceptual design choices. Students will be required to design the space considering the tight dimensional limitations of the volume available.

This exercise introduces students to site analysis, space planning, programming, and circulation.

Arianna De Gasperis - PARSONS - AAS - ID Studio 1 - Fall 2018

ID Studio 1 - Retail Assignment

The retail project asks students to design a retail space with a set of unique requirements.

The students are assigned an existing location in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which will influence both functional and conceptual design choices. Students will be required to design the space considering the features of the building (openings, materials, light orientation, etc.).

This exercise strengthens the students’ skills in developing site analysis, space planning, programming, and circulation within a rather large space, but with a defined existing set of constraints. .

ID Studio 1 - A Table for Eight

The AAS Interior Design Program is open to students from many backgrounds. For this reason, the introductory project of the class is approachable yet surprisingly complex.

Students are asked to design a custom table for eight people and select eight chairs among available pre-existing products. The table and eight chairs represent a unique client, their needs, values, interests and aesthetics. The table should allow seating for eight people (not more, not less) and the chairs should be designed, authored objects, with a traceable history.

The assignment allows student to familiarize with the correlated concepts of… dimension / form / style / material / finish / texture/ colour / sound / temperature / comfort / ergonomics / fabrication / durability / maintenance / cost / lead time / availability / transportation / access / history of a designed object and of its designer(s) …

”We need to get rid of the idea of global profit, finance, industries and brands. We need to get rid of advertising, and of all forms of sponsored communications, of the world of forms with no essence that has replaced our kids’ school and education.

Of all that exists to convince us that we need what we do not need, and that knowledge, wisdom and success can be easy and require no effort. We need to get rid of all the family-driven morals that could be all fine and well by themselves but that are all nonetheless blind. And we need to open our eyes towards a new collective ethic.

And then, we may also have new designs. Because the first condition to create good design is passion for transformation.”

- Enzo Mari

categories OUTREACH, LECTURES · WORKSHOPS

72 HOUR INTERACTIONS · GERMANY

July 2014Nathalie Pozzi

21-27 July 2014

Nakworks is in Witten (Germany) for 72 Hour Interactions - as one of the Jury members.

Sixty architects, game designers, craftspeople, tinkerers and city planners formed five international teams and competed in a special World Championship.

They challenged themselves in only 72 hours – three days and nights – to design and buidt a temporary structure that invites people to come together in play.

Teams
Better Wetter, Hagen Bilder, Hattingen Dragon Slayers, Herdecke Sawhorses, Witten Truffle Pigs [more info here]

Partners
72 Hour Urban Action
Invisible Playground
Urbane Künste Ruhr

Jury
Katja Aßmann (Artistic Director Urban Arts Ruhr, Germany), Philipp Misselwitz (Urban Planner, Germany), Nathalie Pozzi (Architect, Italy), Eric Zimmerman (Game Designer, USA), and representatives of the Municipality of Witten.

categories OUTREACH, PLAY, LECTURES · WORKSHOPS

ZHdK · ZURICH

October 2013Nathalie Pozzi

Zurich University of the Arts offers a broad range of degree programs in education, design, film, art and media, dance, theatre and music.

Closely interrelating teaching and research, it provides an ideal setting for transdisciplinary projects.

Architecture of the Senses: An introduction to Constructed Space and Human Experience was a 3-week intensive workshop ( 21 October · 11 November 2013) given at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). The workshop included students from multiple disciplines, including Concept Design, Game Design, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Interaction Design.

The goal of the course was to understand space design through a number of lenses, from the social and cultural use of space to its material form and sensed experience. The class included readings and space analyses by students, but the focus was a group collaborative project.

Interdisciplinary Workshop

Architecture of the Senses
An introduction to Constructed Space and Human Experience

Academic Institution
ZHdK · Zurich University of the Arts
Department of Design · Interaction Design

Location
Zurich · Switzerland

Year
2013

Interdisciplinary Course – Architecture of the Senses

Documentation of "1 Corridor" – an interactive installation on the ground floor corridor of the main building of the Zurich University of the Arts.

1 Corridor is made up of 220m2 paper, 42 steel strings, 4 stepper - motors, 2 Arduinos, 2 Motion Detectors, 2 aluminum tracks, 1 speaker, 1 MDF box, 1 computer

Professor:
Nathalie Pozzi

Students:
Manuel Ailinger
Helene Amrein
Maria Diaz Alfaro
Benjamin Ganz
Fabienne Osterwalder
Ramun Riklin
Adina Renner
Mai Shlesinger

categories OUTREACH, LECTURES · WORKSHOPS

UdK · BERLIN

May 2012Nathalie Pozzi

The Graduate School for the Arts is a international, post-graduate interdisciplinary program at Berlin University of the Arts. The Fellows in residence are highly qualified graduates from all artistic and academic disciplines who regard the communication and exchange with other disciplines as a prerequisite for their work.

The visiting professorship, in partnership with game designer Eric Zimmerman, revolved around the concept of playtesting. At regular meetings, the Fellows shared works in progress in order to spark critique and further development. In the spirit of playtesting, the works were not just discussed, but instead were experienced: feedback was based on the actual experience of a working project in progress.

In addition, the summer professorship included a requirement of presenting a public project during the residency. To this end, the project Starry Heavens was staged at the Play Publik festival in Berlin, in collaboration with Eric Zimmerman.

Don’t Follow these Rules! A Primer for Playtesting is an essay written with Eric Zimmerman that was inspired by the experience at the University of the Arts.

It outlines best practices for a playtesting design methodology and is included in the collection play:test, published by the Graduate School of the Arts in Berlin.

Visiting Professor

Academic Institution
UdK · Berlin University of the Arts
Graduate School of the Arts

Location
Berlin · Germany

Year
2012