education / teaching

University of Nebraska – Lincoln

Since 2020, Adam Wiese has been leading a design studio at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Sponsored by RDG Planning and Design Adam has worked to explore the concept of the derive through a series of studios that leverage Narrative Architecture to developed a concept for exploration within architecture. This concept taken from his mentors WAI Think Tank has allowed student the freedom to derive untethered through the ambiguous nature of a studio design brief.

Co teachers include: Catrin Cook (2020) and Nate Gieselman (2020-23)

Narrative Architecture Manifesto
There is a form of architecture that aims at not getting built. An architecture on paper that should not be confused with paper architecture. An architecture based on pure statements in which real brick, mortar, and poured concrete are substituted by cut-and- pasted paper and narrative prose…….. An architecture that through narrative texts and a vast repertoire of images (collages, photomontages, drawings, storyboards, comic strips, animations) – creates allegorical stories that aim to expose the impasse and misfires of architecture in theory and practice. This form of architecture is simultaneously both theory and practice. It is theory as practice; critique as architectural project. This form of architecture is called Narrative Architecture and this is its manifesto. – WAI Think Tank

WAI Think Tank Narrative Architecture Manifesto

https://waithinktank.com/Narrative-Architecture-Manifesto

Kaneko Summer Camps

Since 2020, Adam Wiese, in conjunction with RDG Planning and Design, has been planning and leading the summer architecture/design thinking camps at Kaneko in Omaha, Nebraska. The summer programs focus on the implementation of design thinking/making, introducing middle school students to design principles, and then implementing them through scaled model installations and structures.

more info

https://thekaneko.org/ 

https://rdgusa.com/news/omaha-riverfront-pavilion-at-rdg-s-2022-kaneko-architecture-camp

https://rdgusa.com/news/found-objects-and-the-human-scale-at-rdg-s-2023-kaneko-camp