ChiangMai Fieldwork Studio — Tommy CheeMou Yang

CUINDA and Parsons • Chiang Mai field work studio 2020

BanThaThum FieldWork and Engagement By Parsons BFA Studio 06

Student Design Researchers includes : Mint Apisada Hanbujerd, Jakub Klaban, Yuyu Thanapond Namnanthasith, Emma Van Wickler, Luis Urribarri,

Ban Wari Sutthawat | Project no.5 | FieldWork and Engagement By Parsons BFA Studio 06

Student Design Researchers Include: Grape Natnitcha Opasserepadung, Gino Wacheyes Maneepakhathorn, Paskalina Kinanthi, Emma Frances Fuller

BanThaThum FieldWork and Engagement By Parsons BFA Studio 06

Ban Wari Sutthawat | Project no.5 | FieldWork and Engagement By Parsons BFA Studio 06

Coordinator: Brian McGrath, Instructor: Tommy Yang

This is a Field Work Design Research Engagement where the students are tasked to spend a week engaging community members of their studied villages and document the built environment through images, videos, and sketches. Here the students must seek out the daily acts that allow for these places to maintain and sustain their lives in the changing environment of Chiang Mai Urbanization.

Groups of INDA and Parsons students worked on one of four sites in ChiangMai, each containing the same elements but in different situations: a village with a Buddhist temple and monastery, an irrigation weir and canal network, an area of rice cultivation, and several sites meant to support social infrastructure. Students compared the anthropological descriptions and historical photographs of the villages with documentation of contemporary structures that reflect the adaptations of rural villages to an urban economy. The workshop emphasized field work which includes oral storytelling sessions, hand drawings, and prototypes based on participatory action research.