The Remote Studio is an alternative educational program of architecture which challenges the primacy placed upon Cartesian conventions of methodology, objectivity, abstraction and process to allow students to explore their own creative directions as they are tied to the world around them. The program is conducted in a remote location in Park County, Montana. It is meant to provide distance learning gained through real rather than virtual distance.
The Remote Studio provides students of architecture with the opportunity to develop a better understanding of how their creative abilities are tied to their responsibility to the world. The program combines environmental philosophy, lessons in sustainability and backcountry adventure with design/build projects for local community clients.
Enrolled students dedicate a semester class load to the program in order to develop and experience the entire process of creative making. During the extended period of time students engage in personal experiences to develop poetic knowledge which aids in the full consideration of making architecture that is grounded in poetic expression, evolved from their developing personal vision of the world.
The program is run by a not for profit organization called Artemis Institute. It offers university credit through Montana State University located in Bozeman, Montana.
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