Topics cover advanced and research-related issues in digital design and New Media, related to architecture. For current offerings, see department website.

This is a course, first and foremost, about representation, specifically how we represent water. Water is one of the basic elements most essential to sustaining life. It is vital to all known life sources. It covers about 71% of the surface of the earth. We thought we know water, we live with it and consume it everyday, but we hardly know how water works. What are its properties? How it is performed in various circumstances? And at different scale. We only know and recognized how important it is to manage it… We learned that chemically, water is a compound, containing one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms. We also know that water is a liquid state at standard ambient temperature and pressure, but it often coexists on Earth as a solid state (ice),and gaseous state (steam and vapor). From an environmental design perspective, do we actually know it? Most importantly, how do we (as designers) incorporate and represent water during design processes, which in turn, integrate it in the design of physical space. Each culture has developed its own understanding and representation of water in its own unique interpretation. It reveals how significant water plays its role in building our societies and cities. The course will be divided into three assignments; each will challenge our understanding of water, learning the phenomena that we may not be able to describe simply through verbal language. Through visual representation, we will make an attempt to unpack our understanding of water both physically and conceptually.

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