Last summer, students from SCI-Arc and INDA ventured out to the Morongo Valley to take part in a week-long course in which they designed and built a series of exploratory units. Titled 'Landing', the mobile educational camp was the brain child of Danny Wills and Gian Maria Socci, who set up the workshop in order to explore new formats for education.

After a successful first run, the duo (who co-founded the design laboratory Space Saloon) are gearing up for round two. For their second annual iteration, titled 'Fieldworks', the team will look at the cumulative methods of scientific field research, questioning the approaches, techniques, and processes used to collect raw data outside of a laboratory setting.

Design-build projects this year will be led by Andrew Kovacs of Office Kovacs, Zeina Koreitem & John May of MILLIØNS, and Kyle May (KMA). Additionally, daily workshops will be hosted by a range of professionals, from sound and media artists to historians and architects. 

Registration to participate is now open and available to all students and young professionals in the art, design, and architecture disciplines. To find out more about the week long experimental design-build festival, check out our interview with Danny and Gian about last year's results!