Design Yearbook 2017

Tell-Tale Tectonics
Bethan Kay
Situated between Rotterdam’s spectacular Wilhelminapier and the declining port, the rapidly gentrifying peninsula of Katendrecht formed the
site for this semester’s enquiry. Expanding on the themes explored in Marco Frascari’s ‘Tell-The-Tale Detail’, the studio embraced the value of
details as the union of representation and function, and as generator of a scheme. Delving into the area’s rich history - from industry to jazz,
immigration to art, tattooing to prostitution and everything in-between - each student adopted a ghost from the district’s past to act as the
catalyst for a wide range of tectonic explorations rooted in the narrative of place – tectonics that tell-a-tale.
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Preena Mistry