The Collision of Entities and Exploring the Fringe Condition

The collision of entities is something we hope to explore. As a starting point I want begin to contextualize this concept. When two entities, for example Architecture and Urban design or Architecture and Living, collide an over lap occurs creating similarities. When the similarities begin to get realized in a "built" sense the output creates many ideas such as cross programming more commonly know as "Mix Use". 

Within a ven diagram we can plug in "Knowns" in both entities circles with the similarities located in the red overlapping area. 

These "knows" are things that have been tested and mass produced through catchy phrases such as "Place Making" "10 by 10" "Mixed Use" "Live, Work, Play". There is a place in the profession for this type of work and it is respectable and can be important to communities if implemented properly. I want to make this clear that I am not trying to demean any of this work, dissuasions of these "knows" successes and failures are for another day and another post. However this studio will be focusing on and exploring the fringe condition at the intersection of the entities. 

This will be accomplished through the creation of narratives that begin to set the frame work for speculative design. Although most the work will be based in Omaha certain formalities and constraints can and will begin to dissolve as we explore the fringe condition of entities. The hope is that by doing this we are able to free our selves from everyday constraints and produce provoking concepts that make the viewer question societies norms and deeper more meaningful conversations. 

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