About the Collaborating Artists
Dutch-born, London-based artist Madelon Vriesendorp is a practicing artist who has taught art and design at several schools, including the Architectural Association and the Edinburgh School of Art. She cofounded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in 1975. Vriesendorp will share her surreal, magical mode of exploring architecture and its dreamlike potentials for the projects she develops in collaboration with participating students. Vriesendorp will also collaborate with her daughter, Dubai based multidisciplinary artist Charlie Koolhaas, who is best known for her photography relating to architecture.
Chicago-based Maya Bird-Murphy is a designer, educator, and the founder and executive director of Mobile Makers, an award-winning nonprofit organization that brings design and skill- building workshops to underrepresented communities. Bird-Murphy’s approach to architecture and our surroundings is not fixed. Her work will ask students to consider the innately social character of the built environment. Bird-Murphy will collaborate with budding architects to design a “third space” environment for recreation—a designated creative community space for teens to congregate outside of school and home.
