LANDING, held in 2018, was the first iteration of the educational camp and focused on notions of context and place. Students worked with a diverse group of architects, artists, and musicians to discover new relations between themselves and their environment. A series of performative field-recordings and site surveys focusing on ephemeral aspects of place—such as sound, energy, and atmosphere—took place alongside an array of design-build workshops, all culminating in a connected network of landscape installations. The projects ranged from large base stations for observing the surrounding landscape to installations revealing certain aspects of geology, wind, shadow, and water. Before the building projects, the public was invited to a collection of lectures from experts in landscape, technology, and architecture; after, they were invited back to see and experience the projects in their unique contexts.
Status: Built
Location: Morongo Valley, CA, US
Firm Role: Curator
Additional Credits: Space Saloon
LANDING 2018 Team
Curators
Danny Wills
Gian Maria Socci
Organizational Team
Rebecca Looringh-van Beeck
Orsi Janota (Hello Wood)
Péter Pozsár (Hello Wood)
Team Leaders
Kyle May, Architect
Hello Wood
Workshop Leaders
Kylie White
Willis Bigelow
I Stiffen Thee (Neal Lucas Hitch, Martin Hitch)
The 2vvo (Lena Pozdnyakova, Eldar Tagi)
Kanchan Richardson
Christina Nguyen
Sean Gaffney
Maxime Lefebvre
Leah Wulfman
Yara Feghali
Max Harden
Curime Batliner
Special Guests
Geoff Manaugh
Aurora Tang
John Bohn
David Ruy
Participating Schools
International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, USA
Media
Lea Becker
Daniel Schwartz
Original Copy
Restless Works
Support
Hidden Passage Guest Ranch
Baggu
Parker’s Building Supply, Yucca
