The programmatic subject of the semester, cohabitation in Brooklyn, encourages investigations into the political, formal, and social aspects of the ever-dissolving line between the private and public sphere. Attitudes will be tested through design exercises focusing on the insertion of various public + semi-public programs into the sphere of domesticity as a means of interrogating/questioning existing normsand typologies. Questions will be centered on the student’s attitude toward innovations in and around the way the inhabitant interacts within the social environment at multiple scales.

The programmatic subject of the semester, cohabitation in Brooklyn, encourages investigations into the political, formal, and social aspects of the ever-dissolving line between the private and public sphere. Attitudes will be tested through design exercises focusing on the insertion of various public + semi-public programs into the sphere of domesticity as a means of interrogating/questioning existing normsand typologies. Questions will be centered on the student’s attitude toward innovations in and around the way the inhabitant interacts within the social environment at multiple scales.