This year for the annual Schenck Woodman competition first-year MArch students were charged with creating a new gateway for the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia. The site for intervention was an historic warehouse adjacent to the viaduct, an abandoned elevated railway soon to be converted to a new Rail Park.
Students were assigned previous 19th and 20th century exiled industries of Philadelphia and asked to reintroduce them to the city on 21st century terms considering new ethical and environmental dimensions as well as the impact of the current fourth industrial revolution representing a series of significant shifts in the way that economic, political, and social value is being created, exchanged, and distributed.
For the nine-day charrette, recent MArch alums Caleb Ehly @caleb_ehly and Patrick Danahy @pdanahy offered introductory workshops exposing students to new artificial intelligence platforms including diffusion models that can create unimagined hybrid images from user text-based prompts. AI assisted investigations into new industrial and material relationships motivated 26 separate proposals.
The final jury consisting of Sean Canty @sean_canty_, Sara Codarin @saracodarin, Karel Klein @karelnyla and Davis Richardson @droooopi selected the following proposals for prizes:
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