The Naked Crit seeks to challenge the hermetic nature of design reviews in an architectural education. From the entry:
If you showed your final studio project to a non-architect, would they care? Would it be irrelevant?
Currently students present their project to a panel made up of architects and colleagues. While students are encouraged by their critics to consider the world beyond the walls of academia, nobody from the “outside world” is actually present.
If we are serious when we aspire to a wider relevance to the Harvard community (or even outside the safe walls of the academy), lets start by exposing our production to them. Lets show them everything. The good, the bad, the ugly, the embarrassing.
Lets leave the GSD.
Some studios might be ideologically opposed to the naked crit – studios that deal with developing the internal logics of architectural design may feel too exposed presenting tentative research in the gaze of a potentially skeptical and uninformed public. The intention of the naked crit is not to dumb down the discussion to make it comprehensible, but perhaps by exposing it to the general public we may generate a productive friction.
Lets get naked, and show off a little.
