SPACE FOR FREE

This presentation shares the inception of a new student-driven architecture publication, a poster-zine called SPACE FOR FREE. The zine is an outgrowth of a fourth year option studio course, which asks students to use walking and close observation as a main method in order to learn from existing spaces in our city – in this case, Toronto, Canada. More specifically, students are asked to identify spaces that are available for anyone to use, for any purpose, for free – without paying an admission or the need to patronize a business. The presentation and this project documentation are done by an instructor and student together, underscoring the process that the course tries to cultivate, of bottom-up learning, or quasi-collectivism. Students’ spatial discoveries in the city make-up the course content, and it is student experience that drives weekly discussion about urban space, and more specifically, “free” space.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.112.77

Volume Editors
Germane Barnes & Blair Satterfield

ISBN
978-1-944214-45-6