{"id":1445,"date":"2018-01-22T18:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T16:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2018-01-23T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:40:32","slug":"building-and-breaking-and-learning-with-set-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studios.aalto.fi\/sv\/building-and-breaking-and-learning-with-set-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Building and Breaking (and Learning) with Set Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students in Sampo Pyh\u00e4l\u00e4<\/strong>’s Construction and Design course have been hard at work the last two weeks in Aalto Studios’ set construction workshop space<\/a>, learning about proper set construction methods and honing their intuition when it comes to building sets.<\/p>\n

The goal, according to Pyh\u00e4l\u00e4, is not about approaching it from a rigid engineering perspective, but more to give\u00a0students a good set of principles of what will and won’t work.<\/p>\n

The crowning project of the course was to construct model bridges in order to practice the methodology and ideas they learned. The students spent over a week artfully constructing 2\u20133 meter long bridges as a group, one of cardboard, another of wood, sharpening their skills as they went. They even\u00a0went as far as to tie\u00a0red ribbon across each entrance to the ”road” surface of the wooden bridge, which was ceremoniously cut when the bridge was finally in place, simulating a real ”grand opening.”<\/p>\n