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Course Description

DWELLING & DINING

Students: Alexandra Gefflaut
Studio: ARCH 402 — Max Clairo — Spring 2025
Location: Seattle, Washington

Project Description

Dwelling & Dining explores new ways of living that center awareness, reflection, and connection to place. In this studio, the focus shifted from solving problems to asking deeper questions about how we inhabit the world and engage with our communities. The final projects were designed to be evocative—prompting thought and sparking dialogue rather than prescribing fixed outcomes.

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Dreamtime Sketch 1.

This project, in particular, highlights how history and time shape our present lives. Too often, “time illiteracy” distances us from the cultural, ecological, and social layers embedded in our surroundings. Through evocative design strategies, the work encourages people to pause, notice, and reflect on what is often invisible in daily rhythms. By surfacing these histories and fostering a sense of continuity, Dwelling & Dining proposes that design can be as much about awareness and memory as it is about form and function. It asks us to dwell more consciously, eat more mindfully, and engage more deeply with the stories that shape our shared environment.

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Dreamtime Sketch 3.

 

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River Map timeline and Dreamtime sketch.

 

Images from DWELLING & DINING.