First page of Hennie Reynders’s Making Spatial Concerns Visible, published in Gravity: SAIC AIADO Thesis Presentations, 2011. The page includes a photograph of Smile, credited to Ye-Eun Whang and Wonbin Yang. Reproduced from the article PDF for documentation.
Article Title
Making Spatial Concerns Visible: Thinking and Making at the Intersection of Art, Design and Science
Author
Hennie Reynders
Publication
Gravity: SAIC AIADO Thesis Presentations
Publication Type
Graduate thesis exhibition publication and essay collection
Institution
Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects (AIADO), School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher
Lulu.com
Year
2011
ISBN
978-1-257-78514-8
Language
English
Inclusion
Wonbin Yang is listed as a member of the GFRY Studio 2009/10 team. The opening page also reproduces Smile, a collaborative work by Ye-Eun Whang and Wonbin Yang developed as part of the Beppu Tane Project during GFRY Studio 2010.
Page Numbers
Article: pp. 2–9.
Wonbin Yang’s name and the photograph and credit for Smile: p. 2 (PDF page 1).
Hennie Reynders examines how artists, designers, and architects can make spatial concerns visible through interdisciplinary research, collective inquiry, and public engagement. The article focuses on the 2009/10 GFRY Studio, a yearlong School of the Art Institute of Chicago project led by Reynders and Thomas Kong.
The studio investigated changing urban environments through field research, workshops, installations, and public presentations in Beppu, Detroit, Chicago, and Tokyo. Its projects considered citizen participation, technological and physical infrastructure, uneven urban development, and the social relationships through which cities are continually remade.
Wonbin Yang appears in the article as a member of the interdisciplinary GFRY Studio team and as a collaborator on Smile with Ye-Eun Whang. Developed within the Beppu Tane Project, the work invited members of the Beppu community to exchange smiles that were photographed, printed, projected, and shared. The article presents this participatory work as one example of collaboration that created opportunities for community involvement without prescribing a fixed solution for the city.
Related Project
Beppu Tane Project (2009–2010).
Links
Gravity exhibition announcement from e-flux.
Bibliographic record for Gravity: SAIC AIADO Thesis Presentations.
The artist extends sincere appreciation to Hennie Reynders for documenting the GFRY Studio and including Smile in this publication; to Ye-Eun Whang for the collaboration; and to Thomas Kong, the GFRY Studio team, the Beppu Project, and the participating members of the Beppu community.
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