Paprika is more than just a movie. It’s a visual picture of the dystopia of our current society and our dreams. It’s beautiful, scary, and confusing in its own unique way. Satoshi Kon did an amazing job in this movie, bringing the characters to life, and giving us a performance that shows surrealism in the best way.” Frankiesha, Article & Fictional Writer On Vocal Media, 2022.
The movie PAPRIKA will be used as a starting point for the project. The students will explore how this catalyst can inform a design process encouraging the understanding of spatial qualities, the relationship between spaces, scale, materiality, tectonics, and movement. The movie creates a world where reality and fantasy/imagination are superposed. As we observe and identify the spatial and artistic principles used to manipulate emotion and create dramatized or exaggerated expressions, we can start to challenge ourselves to create spaces that superimpose layers or “thoughts”, spatial qualities and ideas (whether imaginary or deduced) into an experimental model of a house. Students are challenged to re-define, re-present and re-interpret the idea of home, and to accommodate to a dweller’s interaction with their inhabited space who will in turn continue to re-define it. We aim to design spaces that answer to needs, requirements, and constraints, yet beyond the functionality of the space, we hope to create poetic spaces that evoke emotion and re-assess conventional systems.