What does it mean to be a maker? Architects make new places and spaces appear in the world. We fabricate the environments that we occupy. What this means is that the kinds of spaces you live in support the kinds of things you can do and the kinds of thoughts you can have about the world. This becomes obvious if you imagine for a moment trying to play soccer in an office building. The field is made for soccer, just the way an office building is made for things people do in offices. You can have a soccer game in an office building, but you will have to think differently about the way you play the game. This still means that the architecture—the building—shapes your thinking, in this case about the ‘soccer-office-field’. For architects making is a kind of thinking. A way of thinking that shapes how we all think about the world. This talk will engage the different ways that architecture thinks/makes the world.
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