Pratt Institute, MFA Thesis 2019

Foucault, Derrida, and the Educational Social Space

My thesis describes and investigates post-structuralism as a method to challenge the social dynamics present in contemporary university classrooms. I explore the effects that the radical lens of post-structuralist thinking offers towards understanding the sociality of a classroom, specifically the interactions within the social and spatial dynamics, the relationships and interactions between individuals that occur within a space, in an attempt to see how power and authority impact the classroom and students who inhabit it. My goal was to gain a better understanding of what is currently an institutional enigma of a social and spatial structure and the bodies that inhabit it.

Below are design exploration works I created during my three semesters of design research. More information on my thesis can be found in the Pratt Institute Archives