How can design navigate the tension between exclusivity and inclusivity?
For example, the balance between limiting or guaranteeing access to opportunities and resources for everyone, the management of scarcity, the dilemma of privilege or inclusivity, or the gap between disparities?
Space for Others
Intuitive Grammars for Inclusive Space-Making
TEAM
Riya Verma
Kalven Owen
Tioluwani Fabunmi
Keira Huffman
Andrea Porubcin
Iason Diogenous
Chloe Jung
Alice Huiwen Ho
CONTEXT
Bachelor of Science, Design + Environmental Analysis
Magnifying Small Spaces Studio
2024/2025
PROFESSORS
Leighton Beaman
Space for Others is an interdisciplinary design research studio exploring the dynamics of co-creating spaces, focusing on the balance of individual agency and collective collaboration. The project uses aggregate building systems and intuitive assembly grammars to explore this dichotomy. Through computational modeling, digital fabrication, and participatory play scenarios, the studio developed toy-scale, 3D printed prototypes for collaborative studies. These experiments consequently informed a full-scale kit, now tested in public play workshops to refine approaches to inclusivity, accessibility, and shared authorship.
