A Space for Imagination

SDSU School of Art and Design proposes to create a group of portable structures designed by students to be placed on different areas of the University. These structures work as umbrellas that provide shade and also can be used as meeting places or for music rehearsal; at the same time, they will display paintings made by students based on the theme: Imagination. Works may explore the topic of Imagination as a means to explore society, examine traditions across cultures and centuries. Imagination, as a fundamental need to think about a better and more equal world and as a way to enrich culture and society.

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Faculty Bios

Carlo Castro

Colombian artist Carlos Castro is a chronicler of his time. In his pieces, he recontextualizes formally and symbolically found objects and images of his environment, some of them highly charged socially and politically, to create new narratives that bring to light the ones that have been socially suppressed over time or ignored in history. Castro's solo exhibitions include 21st Projects in New York, (2014), Santa Clara Museum Bogota (2013), LA Galleria Bogota (2011), Phoenix Gallery NY (2010) among others. His work has been shown in exhibitions like Bogotapolis at Stenersen Museum Norway (2013), Nuestro Sitio at MAC Niteroi Brazil and MAVI Museum in Chile (2012).

Matthew Higgins 

Matthew Higgins is a British architect and interior designer. He wa formerly Design Director of Higgins Gardner & Partners, a London-based architectural practice specializing in cultural facilities design. In 2009 Matthew established Coda Projects LLC, a research practice in California that explores the boundaries between architecture, design and the arts. His academic work at SDSU focuses on modes of conceptual thinking in the development of design ideas. He has introduced various innovative teaching techniques to the interior design program including Space Scrabble, a space-making game that balances design intent with chance outcomes. Soundscape is a development of this concept.