2009 Summer Program
In the middle of the Middle Ages, in the middle of the Low countries between France and Germany on the coast of the North Sea, Bruges (Belgium) grew as a center of trade, finance and art. A circle of walls protected her; canals crisscrossed her with cargo, her stone and brick shops and houses would survive centuries of war and economic change. Construct a medieval merchant’s house in quarter inch scale assisted – for the first time – by a robot router that will cut and carve your windows, doors and steep pitched roof. Build its family, artisans, furniture and trade goods. Join the class in laying out Bruges with its fairytale walls and canals. Build barges for trade.
With visiting translator, Nikita Twaalfhoven.
