CUDC Spring Lecture Series - François Sabourin

8 March 2022 from noon-1pm

In-person event at the CUDC, 1309 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland

While flexibility is a ubiquitous claim of contemporary architectural projects, it remains an ambiguous term and an under-examined topic.

This discussion will consider the managerial aims of flexibility in architecture. How we can provide an alternative to this framework by repurposing some of its tools: can we rethink flexibility outside of its usual role as a system that reins in uncertainty, and instead employ it as a way to resist control and inject indeterminacy into fixed spaces?

François Sabourin is the Schidlowski Emerging Faculty Fellow in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State. He is a designer, educator, and half of the collaborative project yyyy-mm-dd with Kate Yeh Chiu. His research seeks to conceive architecture within the loose conditions of instability and indeterminacy, with work ranging from software tools to structural installations and architectural robotics.

This in-person event at the CUDC is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.

For more information, please call 216.357.3434 or email cudc@kent.edu.