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 Porosity Studio / COLLABOR8

For two weeks in September 2009 more than sixty art, design, and architecture students, practitioners and academics worked on a live design brief in an intensive two-week studio at Donghua University, Shanghai. e-SCAPE was a partnership between Professor Richard Goodwin’s Porosity Studio, and The Collabor8 Project (C8), in collaboration with Donghua University (Shanghai) and COFA (Sydney).

The Porosity Studio was established by Professor Richard Goodwin in 1996 and has operated successfully since this time. It provides a potential component of a student’s major study in final years from a range of disciplines: Fine Art, Design, Media Studies, Architecture, Urban Design and Engineering. Multi-disciplinary practice is explored and students are able to test their individual practices at the scale of architecture and the city. The studio builds on the practice and research of Goodwin who is both artist and architect. The relationship between the city and public space remain key concerns for the studio – hence the name Porosity which speaks to the need for architecture to be Porous in relation to public space.

The studios have been held in Beijing at The Central Academy of Fine Art and Tsinghua University, Rotterdam at The Willem De Kooning Institute, Den Haag at Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, and Milan at the Milan Politecnico.

In 2007, the British Council selected the Porosity studio as exemplary in its field and is now sponsoring students from around the world to participate in a series of 3 Porosity studios within the United Kingdom. To date these have included Edinburgh at the Edinburgh University, and Cardiff at Cardiff University and Glamorgan University.

In 2010 the final of this trilogy will be held in London in conjunction with The Bartlett School of Architecture, The Slade art school and Westminster University. These studios offer fully paid placements to the best students within a competitive framework.