Silia Abou Arbid

March 29, 2017	ARCHIDES Lecture Series: “Creative Processes”
	Silia Abou Arbid is an architect and pluridisciplinary educator and practicing designer who has shaped her professional activities in design around the critical inquiry of morphology - syntax and matter. Abou Arbid teaches empirical two- and three- dimensional design studios in architecture and graphic design, with a focus on teaching Foundation Studies. She regularly participates in international design competitions and has three winning entries and five commendations. Her current research activities involve extensive explorations of e-Polymers to create mediated geological material formations for use in building and objects.
Seeing- Affinities and the Act of Making	Abstract: The Foundation Year design studio is an open-ended experiment in the fundamental ways of teaching and learning, where, thinking or critical discovery of knowledge occurs in response to senseless acts of contemplation while making sense of our surrounds – varying senses, when synergies of instabilities prefigure as possibilities in which problems exist only as implements for reflection and creative speculation. The lecture focuses on Observation and Seeing in the conceptual dissection of phenomena and affects, and, the constant dialectic between making \| un-making, discernment and critical assessment in Learning by Making when delving into the rigors of abstraction, setting resolutions or defining tectonic invention for the creative process.

March 29, 2017

ARCHIDES Lecture Series: “Creative Processes”

Silia Abou Arbid is an architect and pluridisciplinary educator and practicing designer who has shaped her professional activities in design around the critical inquiry of morphology - syntax and matter. Abou Arbid teaches empirical two- and three- dimensional design studios in architecture and graphic design, with a focus on teaching Foundation Studies. She regularly participates in international design competitions and has three winning entries and five commendations. Her current research activities involve extensive explorations of e-Polymers to create mediated geological material formations for use in building and objects.

Seeing- Affinities and the Act of Making

Abstract:

The Foundation Year design studio is an open-ended experiment in the fundamental ways of teaching and learning, where, thinking or critical discovery of knowledge occurs in response to senseless acts of contemplation while making sense of our surrounds – varying senses, when synergies of instabilities prefigure as possibilities in which problems exist only as implements for reflection and creative speculation. The lecture focuses on Observation and Seeing in the conceptual dissection of phenomena and affects, and, the constant dialectic between making | un-making, discernment and critical assessment in Learning by Making when delving into the rigors of abstraction, setting resolutions or defining tectonic invention for the creative process.