Education is a transformative pursuit; Individuals come together and engage in transformative interactions and experiences. As with many forms of structural invention, the consequences of thoughtful invention within the structures of education are ultimately unique spaces. The spaces of education are participants in the construction of knowledge. What we ‘know’ is constructed not only within us, or the exterior world, but in-fact between the world and our experience of it. This opens the possibility of education as a communicative exchange between individuals, their social environment, and the spaces they inhabit. Our spaces of education ultimately can afford us the possibility of inhabiting our questions and creating an architectonics of curiosity.

In this talk Professor Gersten will address these questions from a number of perspectives, specifically looking at the interdependence of education and the spaces of education.

David Gersten is an internationally recognized artist, architect, writer, and educator based in New York City. He is Distinguished Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Learning at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, where he has taught since 1991. He is concerned with co-constructing questions and works that include the nuanced fragilities in our shared stories. Gersten is the Founding Director and President of Arts Letters & Numbers, a non profit organization rooted in an ethics of inclusion and dedicated to expanding the experiences understood as education by creating emergent structures and spaces for exchange across disciplines.

The Architectonics of Curiosity is a lecture collaborated with the School of Architecture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong as part of SunShip: The Arc That Makes The Flood Possible, Arts Letters & Numbers exhibition in the CITYX Venice Italian Virtual Pavilion of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.