Conspiracy as Method at Penn
Today I’m serving as guest critic at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for Robert Gerard Pietrusko’s “Conspiracy as Method” final review. Past work from this popular Landscape Architecture course has been experimental, fun, and insightful—“serious play” as it were.
Meeting in the Weitzman School of Design, we’ll review each group’s short film; the culmination of their semester’s efforts. Each film is composed of three chapters: An investigation of a chosen “natural” disaster, a resultant conspiracy theory (either existing or fabricated for the purposes of this course), and a speculative design proposal for a future institution arising from the group’s constructed context.
This morning I’m joined by fellow guest critics Anthony Acciavatti (Yale University) Danielle Choi (Harvard University) Emma Mendel (University of Pennsylvania), and Joshua Mosley (University of Pennsylvania). It promises to be an entertaining and thought-provoking exercise.