Masha Hupalo

is a researcher and architect who writes and teaches in Los Angeles. Her current work focuses on the way policy and high-frequency data inform planning and design, the legal construct of territory and borders, and new forms of governance and ownership. 

Proto thinking on are.na
The Carrier Bag of Tools
  • Throughout the semester, students drew previously invisible connections between different sources of information and created collections of concept tools that helped them support their theoretical and pedagogical claims. By treating a syllabus as a carrier bag of concept tools [Ursula K. Le Guin, 1986], we questioned and discussed its linear structure, itsstatic format, conventional and new parts like protocols of online behaviour, self-evaluation, and others.  
  • Type: Graduate Design Studio
  • Location: Design Theory and Pedagogy Postgraduate Program at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA
  • Year: 2021 


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