portfoliage________29 March, 2010
hey thur tru believers!
i do believe my colloquialisms are growing more and more out of control every day. on the bright side, perhaps i will someday become something like walt kelly (not to be confused with walt disney…more on that later). so basically, these past few weeks have been crazy with a capital C. first, i made a stab at the KPF traveling fellowship, which is this ultra-competitive travel grant open only to architecture students from a select list of about 20 schools countrywide (of which rice is one). it’s hard to find data on entrants, winners, or even the contest itself (probably the latter is not made publicly available because the competitions itself is not publicly available, so to speak). one of my coworkers pithily observed that “the crazier the better” as far as portfolio for grants go. if that’s true, perhaps i will be a shoo-in. ha ha. not. but fingers crossed. either way, i have to pass muster at rice’s selection committee first (rice is only allowed, or only chooses, to put forth two applicants from within its own ranks). i’m going up against a lot of super-talented, super-amazing, accomplished people so i don’t doubt that i will probably not even be put forward by my school as an applicant.
my travel proposal centered on the relationship between technology and design methods/thought. i’m expressed interest in visiting religious, civic, and industrial sites (primarily modern / post-modern) and representing or mapping them in ways other than those they were conceived (i.e. topological unfolding, reflectivity mapping, or fourier “waterfall” maps of sound inside them). i was hoping to work in some information about cultural identity and the attitudes people have towards their design (cultures). the idea is that some kind of narrative would emerge from this. anyway, i put together a kind of cool portfolio centering around these ideas and sent it off to texas. checkit!
