Kolb and Diamantopoulou will share thoughts on what they have learned through their service work. If architectural practice has a direct relationship to the market and consumer desires, where can we start to tease and stretch systems of value to accommodate new kinds of work and different formal orders? How can we use those systems to push what we do "out of service"? Work in service and out of service becomes a mutually inflecting cycle, one always informing the other.
The pair will present some projects that look to reorient practice around considerations of use, re-use, and un-use — scavenging from the world around us and building something familiar, anew.
New Affiliates is an award-winning New York-based design studio. The practice engages in a range of work — from residential to commercial, ground-up to exhibition — and initiates projects and collaborations that focus on intersections of form, infrastructure, and reuse as they relate to current standards of practice.
