Dance Space: Choreographing a Mobile Theatre

pub_fac_bechthold_dance_coverThis publication documents research on deployable, lightweight structures. The student work shown was developed in jointly taught studio at Stuttgart’s Institute of Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) and at the GSD. Students proposed original solutions for a mobile dance theatre for a site in Boston and one in Stuttgart, developing folded origami-like structures, fabric systems, pneumatic environments and other innovative systems.

A Mobile Dance Theatre Mobile Environments, Lightweight Structures Dance: Space and Time Parallel Cultures: Two Sites, Two Approaches Design Research and Studio Pedagogy
Collaborative Workshops Workshop at ILEK Workshop at GSD
Design Projects Design Studio at ILEK Design Studio at GSD

Additional Authors: Werner Sobek, Christine Lemaitre, Dewi Schönbeck

Harvard University Graduate School of Design