Building Spaces With Words:

Building Space with Words is a project by social scientist Anne-Laure Fayard

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(assistant professor of Management at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, NYU-Poly) and artist Aileen Wilson, associate professor of Art and Design Education at Pratt Institute. Along with several others, I have been invited to join their blog conversation where they/we discuss matters such as disciplines, practices, materiality, art v science, social science v science and so on. Indeed the subjects being discussed, and the range of backgrounds of the contributors are such that I was worried that I couldn’t keep up with all the posts and all the threads. But then I realised it is rather like being at a party of people, some of whom know each other, or know of each other, or faintly recognise each other, with two hosts who keep offering drinks or things to eat, and introduce you to each other. But where are the gatecrashers?

From this dialogue, we will extract key ideas and questions to be asked of visitors to the installation. In addition, the public will have the opportunity to participate in the blog while visiting the installation with their blog posts becoming a part of the installation as they are projected onto the maze. More generally, we want to start a conversation and deepen our understanding of these issues through a dialogue with people coming from various backgrounds and perspectives.

The installation will be open to the public from March 5 to 27. Please share the information with people who might be interested. We will share photos with you!