Dezeen School Shows: a skull-shaped handbag that critiques luxury fashion brands is among the projects from the Paris School of Architecture.
Also featured is a design for a portable honey hive and a 3D-printed mask created for a sports tournament.
Paris School of Architecture
Institution: Paris School of Architecture
Studios: Diagetic Prototype Masterclass and Jelly Exercise
School statement:
“Paris School of Architecture is an experimental and innovative architecture school with an international focus based in central Paris.
“It is an entirely postgraduate architecture school in France teaching in the English language, preparing its graduates to operate across Europe and the rest of the world.
“Paris School of Architecture is pedagogically radical – created in response to the changing nature of architectural practice today.
“The incubative pedagogical model at PSA – which places emphasis on each students’ individual research – critically engages with the contradiction and dilemma of the world today, critiquing entrenched design values to pose alternative ‘micro-fictions’.
“Moving away from the instructive pedagogical methods of the past, it is a place for the development of each student’s individual ideas, situated within the context of a support network of practising architects, designers and researchers.
“The students’ work challenge specific and diverse political, moral and environmental questions to offer critical perspectives through design.
“This year also showcases the students’ ‘scenario objects’ including their ‘severance jellies’, ‘gateways’ and ‘diagetic prototypes’.
“These objects offer moments in the research term to develop scenarios through design and fabrication, physically experimenting with aesthetics before delving into their architectural designs in the following term.”
Stateless Embassy by Delaney Inamine
“In a political fictional project set in a hyper-nationalist and hyper-globalist world, there is a growing number of stateless people – both voluntary expats and involuntary refugees – creating a need for an embassy representing the stateless.
“Using specialised printing techniques, specific language and intentional branding, the student created three different types of stateless passports to raise particular questions of nationalism.”
Student: Delaney Inamine
Studio: Diagetic Prototype Masterclass
A Fenced New World by Gauri Mali
“Made entirely from white cardboard, this handcrafted model stands as a provocation – an architectural artefact in a post-war world defined by hyper-nationalised repatriation.
“Once a symbol of openness, its passages are now filled with concrete, rendering it functionless.
“By obstructing entry, the model critiques closed borders in a global landscape where only trade and digital realms remain transnational.
“The blocked threshold becomes a monument to isolation – a spatial commentary on a world where crossing over is no longer physical, but curated, earned and politically charged.”
Student: Gauri Mali
Studio: Gateway Exercise
Wahmy by Helmi Mhiri
“In a speculative future, humanity boldly severs the chains of nature, embracing a destiny of technological augmentation and cybernetic transcendence.
“This AI-designed organic structure replaces key elements of the human brain, connecting to synapses to allow full digitisation.”
Student: Helmi Mhiri
Studio: Diagetic Prototype Masterclass
The Beautiful Game by Remi Ojumu
“To imagine the reinvention of football to critically show the commercialisation of the sport, a new tournament is created – the freedom games – in which prisoners compete for their freedom.
“The games are broadcast on the virtual reality realm, allowing fans an unprecedented experience.
“Players must wear masks to track their movements while also creating marketable personalities. This 3D-printed replica is an example of fan memorabilia, the equivalent of a jersey.”
Student: Remi Ojumu
Studio: Diagetic Prototype Masterclass
The Sanatorium of Mother Vivid by Samuel Spindler
“In an era of cyber-fruition, wearable haptic devices are utilised to counteract a trauma of the senses and enhance pleasures sought in virtual spaces.
“This object was handcrafted in a process of casting a pair of shoulders with plaster, re-shaping it as a collier and complementing it by a pleat spine sewn from raw cotton and silk thread.”
Student: Samuel Spindler
Studio: Diagetic Prototype Masterclass
The A.C.E Campus by Varvara Anisimova
“As tech companies attempt to market chip implants, they continue generations-long aesthetics: clean and sleek, comfortable but minimalistic.
“But this 3D-printed prototype invokes – with glass vials and a needle – an ominous sense of not just an invasion of digital privacy, but also a physical invasion.
“This campus was created by three tech companies working together on a programme of mass chip implantation.
“Officially, it’s presented as a new educational typology – a place where students can live, learn and adapt to life with a chip.
“In reality, the campus is an experimental testing ground.
“It is used to observe students’ behaviour and reactions, especially the differences between those with chips and those without. The architecture doesn’t just shape the space, it plays an active role in the experiment.”
Student: Varvara Anisimova
Studio: Diagetic Prototype Masterclass
Dissension by Vanessa Bauer
“The resin-cast block preserves personal mementos – symbols of an old, unhealthy life – that a person must leave behind before entering a radical commune fixated on an ideologically exaggerated, hyper-focused health ideal.
“The student created the object by embedding the items in layers of resin – as a melancholic memento, but also as a cautionary symbol of the tensions between egocentric self-optimisation and ideological self-sacrifice in the name of the common good.”
Student: Vanessa Bauer
Studio: Diagetic Prototype Masterclass
Codified by Yael Saadia Dickter
“This speculative categorisation system divides a future society into 25 groups based on their attitudes toward environmental destruction (local versus global) and technological progress (for versus against).
“Each group is represented by a jelly cube, cast in moulds and coloured with a rule-based number of drops of food colouring.
“In this way, the student has achieved different hues and transparencies that make potential future identities physically and visually tangible.”
Student: Yael Saadia Dickter
Studio: Jelly Exercise
A Plague on Both Your Houses by Fanney Eiríksdóttir
“Political and economic events lead to the establishment of a freeport at the mouth of the Seine, which is leased to luxury goods conglomerate LVMH – Europe’s largest company.
“Attracting the wealthy and free of regulations, the company continues its experimentations with biological materials in fashion and fetishising bodily elements of celebrities to produce luxury goods.
“This branded skull handbag, grown from the DNA of a celebrity, is one of the most coveted items.”
Student: Fanney Eiríksdóttir
Studio: Diagetic Prototype Masterclass
The Animals and Their Layla by Eyub Acikgoz
“As humans continue to dominate nature, attempting to engineer it to their own benefit in the name of some sort of efficiency, this portable honey hive questions what that efficiency actually is.
“It visually separates the normally symbiotic functions of bees into three isolated bubbles with genetically modified, functionally specialised bees in each.
“The human wearer can then have fresh honey at all times and be seen with this status symbol accessory.
“Materials used include hand melted plastic, bees, 3D-printed PLA and flowers. No bees were harmed in the making of this prototype.”
Student: Eyub Acikgoz
Studio: Diagetic Prototype Masterclass
Partnership content
This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and the Paris School of Architecture. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.
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