Visit the exhibition on Ljusgården, SB Building, from 29 May to 8 June.
The master's thesis exhibition of 2023 is, with over a hundred projects, more comprehensive than usual and is up to date on technological as well as societal development. Visit the exhibition and find out how tomorrow's architects see the present and the future.
The architecture students master's thesis exhibition marks the finale of the studies at the architecture master's programs and gather students from eleven master's directions presenting their final projects. And this year they are more than ever, over a hundred projects are to be presented and reviewed before being publicly exhibited.
– A common trait among this year's degree projects is a focus on sustainability from various aspects, expressed through, for example, investigations of resource use, materials and transformation of existing buildings, says Naima Callenberg, who is the curator of the exhibition.
It is clear that the students are sensitive to contemporary references and techniques. Naima says that many of the students have used digital tools, including the use of AI manifested in creative processes and design processes. Other students have coded their own datasets, or programmed 3D printers. Another parameter that is expressed in the students' work is contemporary societal development.
– A common trait among this year's degree projects is a focus on sustainability from various aspects, expressed through, for example, investigations of resource use, materials and transformation of existing buildings, says Naima Callenberg, who is the curator of the exhibition.
It is clear that the students are sensitive to contemporary references and techniques. Naima says that many of the students have used digital tools, including the use of AI manifested in creative processes and design processes. Other students have coded their own datasets, or programmed 3D printers. Another parameter that is expressed in the students' work is contemporary societal development.
– We can see that many of the projects comment on society at present, they express societal criticism and are political in many senses. I think the students are good at finding a critical approach to existing systems, such as when it comes to politics, economics and resource management, where they show how they critically analyze and want to change the structure from within, tells Naima.
She believes that even though several of the courses and directions deal with these issues in an overall manner, the students show a great deal of independence and uses the master's projects to show how they tackled it through their own approaches.
– The exhibition investigates what architecture is about today and what the architects of the future want to talk about and work with, and I think that is very exciting!
The presentations, when the students present their projects to the public, take place between 29-31 May. The exhibition can be visited at Ljusgården in SB-huset until June 8 and can be viewed digitally afterwards at https://projects.arch.chalmers.se/
Background:
The exhibition consists of master's projects from the two master's programs Architecture and Planning Beyond Sustainability och Architecture and Urban Design.
The students choose on of following directions for their projects:
- Building and tectonics
- Building Design and Transformation for Sustainability
- Critical Spatial Perspectives
- Design Activism Beyond Borders
- Healthcare
- Housing
- Material Turn
- Matter Space Structure
- Rurban transformation
- Social Ecological Urbanism
- Urban Challenges
Contact:
Naima Callenberg
- Lecturer, Architectural Theory and Method, Architecture and Civil Engineering
