Bounding Box Architecture: A Comics Workshop

This workshop is a hands-on introduction to sequential narrative and story-making with students. At a time where bounding boxes are being drawn around faces, bodies, and buildings to extract data for AI training, how might the meta-structure of framing in comics and the graphic arts help us (literally) reframe the built environment around us? What can the format of sequential narrative lend us in troubling times?

This event invites you to attend to the bounding box, the frame, and the panel as an actor in architectual representation, instigating alternate ways of seeing and representing the world. This event will begin with a mini-lecture and introduction to a series of comic works, followed by an hour of hands-on drawing and conversation. BYO pens and pencils of varying colors and weights.

Biography

Amelyn Ng is an architect, cartoonist, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. She has previously taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Rice University, and is a registered architect in the State of Victoria, Australia. Her work contends with relationships between matter and representation, and seeks alternate narratives to the status quo of building. While her creative practice engages themes of waste, material economy, and planetary extraction, her research examines the socio-technical relations of architectural representation with a focus on entanglements between labor, technology, and material conditions.