To give an object a name is to assign an a priori definition of convention, and this convention often overrides our willingness to experience it in unconventional ways. Similarly, when confronted with architecture that falls outside of known expectations – referred to in this seminar as ‘formlessness’ – we can be enticed to create new semantic affinities that invariably move the discipline forward. This is one way to make artifacts, buildings, and ultimately cities locally and temporally relevant, and when successful, is an act of reclamation that can be empowering for both the designer and end user. Formlessness is not about being vague, but instead, must be precise enough to generate specifically framed potentials towards useful yet unknowable outcomes. Formlessness and Effect will tap into leading ideas merging architecture, art, and technology, and is open to all graduate disciplines at CCA.  Course concepts will establish broader connections to globalized matter and homogeneous urbanization, but always with an emphasis on the scalar proximities of perceptual effects and applied speculations.

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