LAU Creative Workshop for Future Students: Explore, Create, Win Scholarships!
Gezairi Building, LAU Beirut Campus
Attention applicants to the School of Architecture and Design at LAU!
You are invited to a creative workshop to dive deep into the creative process and experience firsthand what it’s like to tackle a Foundation Studio assignment at LAU.
Come prepared with the below tools and a creative mind. Places are limited.
Top applicants will win a scholarship:
- First Place Award: Scholarship [25%]
- Second Place Award: Scholarship [20%]
- Third Place Award: Scholarship [15%]
Workshop Outline
This workshop is an opportunity for high school students interested in joining any of LAU’s Architecture or Design Programs, to get a hands-on preview of a typical Foundation Studio assignment at LAU. During the Workshop, the participants will draw inspiration from the wearable sculptures of German artist Rebecca Horn.
During the 1960’s, Rebecca Horn suffered from severe lung poisoning because of the toxicity of the materials she had used in making her sculptures. She was confined to hospital beds and sanatoria for much of her early twenties, during which she also lost her parents. It was that experience of immense isolation that pushed her to start sketching and making her wearable sculptures - or body extensions - as a way to communicate and interact again with her environment.
From her hospital bed she could only sketch and sew. She shifted from the toxic fiberglass and polyester to working with light materials: color pencils, balsa wood, fabric and found objects. Her wearable sculpture masked or elongated the body. It contained or constrained the body and by doing that heightened, changed, or expanded the sensory experience of the wearer.
The confinement we endured because of Covid-19 isolated many of us. Our modern society in general is isolating; it is quite difficult to reach out and connect with people. With all our online experiences and digital interactions, we are losing touch with our bodies, our physical spaces and our fellow human beings. This workshop invites the participants to think, sketch and build a body extension of their own that will help reawaken their senses and hence bring their awareness back to the space and material world they inhabit.
List of Required Tools & Materials
- Containers - one or more of your choice ( wood or plastic bowl, box, Tupperware .. etc. )
- Tin Cans and/or Glass or Plastic Jars ( clean )
- Cardboard Box(es) ( cereal, chips, shoe box, tube .. etc. )
- Ribbon Roll ( 2.5 cm width of band )
- One Meter Faux-Leather – color of your choice
- Sewing pin-Needle and White Threads
- Barbeque Skewers : round and/or flat section, assorted Lengths ( short & long )
- Organic Elements of your choice ( dry or fresh fruits, vegetables, flowers, elongated tree branches, twigs, sticks .. etc. )
- Object or Toy of your choice you can dispense of
- Cutting Tools ( cutter, scissors )
- Drawing Tools ( pencils, erasers, coloring pencils, markers, rulers )
- Collage Material ( Magazines, printed images, textures .. etc. )
Schedule
- 9:00 – 9:15 AM: Lecture by Lee Frederix, Associate Professor - Gulbenkian Theatre
- 9:15 – 9:30 AM: Q&A with S. Abou Arbid, Director Foundation Program - Gulbenkian Theatre
- 9:30 – 9:45 AM: WorkShop Brief Introduction by Christine Kettaneh, Adjunct Assistant Professor - Gulbenkian Theatre
- 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM: Creative Workshop for high school students with Scholarship Award Delivery Animators : Foundation Faculty and Alumni - Gezairi Building
- 4:00 – 4:45 PM: Jury of Works Submitted : Walk the Lobby Jury – display of Works worn by the high school students
- 4:45 – 5:00 PM Announcement of Scholarship Award Winners
