DSGN 401
TRANSSCALAR DESIGN STUDIO III
SCALE: SMALL
THEME: COSMOS

FALL 2026
BDCI/SAPL/UCALGARY
JOSHUA CLARKE
IN PROCESS is a transscalar design studio that investigates how design and architecture can construct new ways of attending to the larger relationships within which human and more-than-human life is situated. The studio begins from the premise that the cosmos is not simply something distant to be observed, but a field of scientific, ecological, cultural, symbolic, material, temporal, and metaphysical relationships already present within everyday experience.

Across cultures and throughout history, humans have developed instruments, observatories, calendars, maps, diagrams, rituals, myths, monuments, and architectures through which cosmological realities could be perceived, measured, interpreted, embodied, and shared. The studio examines these devices not simply as representations of knowledge, but as instruments of attention: designed constructions that make otherwise diffuse, invisible, slow, distant, or abstract relationships available to human perception. This studio asks: >>> What is at  stake for our capacity to cultivate attention towards that which is larger than us? <<<

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THIRD YEAR DESIGN STUDENTS

  • Nathanial Cadieux
  • Alyson Chintea
  • Hieu Di Dao
  • Farah Haji Mohammad Taghi
  • Daniel Hernandez Giacomin
  • Maria Juneau
  • Bailey Kamanzi
  • Sasha Mantei
  • Gabriel Murray
  • Buyantegsh Naranbaatar
  • Elizabeth Okrusko
  • Ashish Panda
  • Jordan Peterson
  • Claire Pogor
  • Maria Polania Rozo
  • Djehann Reyes
  • Gabby Ribeiro da Silveira
  • Harkaran Sandhu
  • Aurora Schultz
  • Anna Speller
  • Warner Wedenig
  • Qodesh Weekes


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