Masterclass “Parasite Car”
Tessa Lavrijsen (tutor WdKA) Richard Goodwin (Porosity Studio, COFA) Maik Mager (Stadslab WdKA)
In September 2006 a group of art and design students from the College of Fine Arts (COFA, Sydney) teamed up with Chinese (CAFA, Beijing) and Dutch (WdKA, Rotterdam) counterparts to rethink Beijing’s road system and the impact of the automobile on urban development.
This project, entitled Parasite Car, was more than an imaginative design studio assignment. It encompassed a real case study involving an actual street in Beijing’s CBD. Students worked with architects, central planners and academics from Sydney, Rotterdam and Beijing. The outcomes were architectural plans reinventing the use of public space and rethinking the role of the car to busy urban dwellers.
