LATENT COMPATIBILITY
Kent CAED
Fall 2020
Latent Compatibility is one of the Annex Exhibitions running in parallel with Candide’s Garden. Candide’s Garden is a didactic unpacking of a series of techniques that are scales-able and malleable enough to be repurposed, reused, and adopted by others. While the main annex holds the traditional framed drawings that are delaminated and layered in the Armstrong gallery, the second portion ( Latent Compatibilities exhibition) showcases depictions of the same canonical realms illustrated in Voltaire’s Candide, illustrated by students. Each student has chosen one of the main realms ( Westphalia, Eldorado, Constantinople) to represent architectural ideas. If we see traditional framed drawings featured in the annex as a typical exhibition, Candide's garden in the Armstrong gallery on one hand, and latent compatibility on the other hand are the moments where this construct shifts identity from a speculative work to a fully disciplinary project that is tangible, accessible, and malleable enough to be reused by other designer and generate discourse.
Curated by: Zahra Safaverdi / Schidlowski Fellow
Participants in Order of Appearance: Ezra Bard (Constantinople), Davor Udovicic (Westphalia), Michael Conner (Westphalia), William Maniet (Westphalia), Raquel Oliviera Toscano de Britto (Eldorado), Rachel Pillar (Constantinople), Nathan Krantz (Eldorado), Haley Scott (Constantinople), Seth Grilly (Westphalia)
