Design Studio 2: Domestic Spaces for the Care of the Daily Life and Environment (UMA)

The idea started from the need to reformulate the inhabited space and the city in a changing context and in crisis on a climatic and social level, from the first courses of Design Studio. To this end, Design Studio 2 carried out a scalar movement that starts from taking care of oneself and opens up to taking care of other people, while integrating the environment. It focuses on the creative process that accompanies the architectural project, especially in the inhabited space, the house, as an intimate space and the first sphere of socialisation.

This course focused on listening to and observing the way in which immigrants live in the city of Malaga. Starting from the reality of these individuals, learners and educators learned about the housing needs that will lay the foundations for architectural proposals aimed at facilitating the integration of immigrants in Europe.

This approach helped to reflect on what migration entails, on the need to inhabit a place, as well as on lifestyles in different contexts, cultures, climates, and ecosystems. Furthermore, it served to rethink the domestic space of contemporary living in the diverse city.

The course ends with the design of a housing unit or facility for the integration and coexistence of a group of migrants with local residents.

METHODOLOGICAL SEQUENCE

THEME 01. APPROACHES TO THE ‘SELF SPACE’

THEME 02. APPROACHES TO THE ‘YOU SPACE’

THEME 03. APPROACHES TO THE ‘OUR SPACE’

This course has been part of the Educational Innovation Project: Ecosystemic Domesticity for the care of daily life and the environment.