Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Mary-Ann Ray
“Cyborgonomic Architecture, Chromosapien1Space” is the title of a graduate options studio taughtat the Taubman College of Architecture and UrbanPlanning at the University of Michigan in the fall of2015. The studio explored, in an intensive manner,new potentials for ways in which a wide range ofbodies interact with topographies, spaces, surfacesand objects. The bodies in the case of the studiowere part of a culture of disability that was unfamiliarto the students, and it required that they openthemselves up to obtaining a deep understanding ofa wide spectrum of bodies, disability practices anddisability theories. Students designed at a range ofscales from the landscape to urbanism, architecture,surfaces, furniture, everyday objects and graphic/identity/wayfinding design. The students inventedtopographies, spaces, surfaces and objects thatattempted to take the stigma of the “dis”- out ofthe “disabled” bodies living in and interacting withthem, and the studio viewed disability as a meansfor expanding the boundaries of our normative relationshipsto space.
Volume Editors
Billie Faircloth, Howard Frumkin & Sara Jensen Carr
ISBN
978-1-944214-09-8
