In the Zone
By Scott Boylston
We’re looking forward to our summer.
The old saying goes, you get what you ask for, and yes, we most definitely have. We have complexity, oh yes we do. But along with the complexity—along with this wild collaborative network we’ve nurtured—we have excitement, and meaning, and passionate interest from those throughout the ever-expanding network.
The [...]
Seeing is Believing
Logos :: n :: In classical rhetoric, the means of persuasion by demonstration of logical proof, real or apparent.
By Scott Boylston
Ideas can either be validated or delegitimized in the court of public opinion by the ways in which they are presented. That sounds simple, perhaps even obvious, until you consider that the way in which [...]
Objects of Significance?
By Scott Boylston
This is a photograph of one of countless small objects we’ve found during our visits to the soon to vanish homes in Savannah Gardens. It does not take much to imagine a hand on this object; a level of human commitment to its presence; a memory—tragic, mundane or jubilant—that clings to its surface [...]
Deconstructing the Unit
By Scott Boylston
What do we value? As individuals? As a culture? We value those things whose worth is apparent to us; we value what we perceive as valuable. And when the true value of something has been obscured by misperceptions or assumptions, we need new ways of seeing those things.
From the beginning of this project, [...]
How Little our Eyes Permit Us to See
“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” ~Dorothea Lange
Pimprae Hiranprueck, a photography student at SCAD, recently accompanied a team that has [...]
Faith Without Works is Dead: Hunting for Solutions
By Summer Constantino
Armed with a growing knowledge of reclaimed materials, and with fierce determination, my partner in a winter quarter Sustainable Practices in Design class at SCAD, Katie Coulburn, and I decided to design a meaningful method of including heartpine from the old buildings at Savannah Gardens into the redevelopment of new homes on the [...]
Revealing the Hidden Connections: Housing Projects & Historic Forests
By Summer Constantino
A condemned housing project is the last place you’d want to go hunting for treasure, literally or figuratively. Or is it?
Entering dilapidated buildings is not for the faint of heart. Ghosts seem to be behind every corner and the visual reality is best described as “hopelessly depressing”. But if you can shoo away [...]
The Death of a House
By Adrian Perez
The house is alive as long as it is inhabited. It breathes, sees, digests, listens, talks, it ages, and it dies. Upon its death, it must be disposed of or it will slowly decompose.
Like a corpse, it must be buried or it will decay before the public eye; this type of dead space is considered the gangrene of the urban body.
Like a corpse left bare, it [...]
Designing for Social Innovation
By Scott Boylston
The national IxDA conference in Savannah, Georgia brought a great many things to town, but nothing was quite as exciting as having Ezio Manzini here. Invited as a keynote speaker for the event, Ezio also took the time to give an engaging talk at SCAD’s Gulfstream Center on the role of design in [...]
Mapping Optimism
“I have cast my lot with those, who, age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.”
—Adrienne Rich
By Scott Boylston
What on Earth are we doing? Is it OK to ask that? Does the common wisdom of the day monopolize insight into what can and cannot be done in this world, not only despite its [...]