This course examines the concept of love as a form of technology—an evolving system of tools, practices, and mechanisms that facilitate human connection, action, and care. By integrating perspectives from art, architecture, philosophy, and sociology, the course explores how love operates as a mode of transportation: a conduit for communication, a catalyst for action, and a framework for care. Students will engage in interdisciplinary projects, critical readings, and creative practices to analyze and reimagine the intersections of love and technology in contemporary society.

This project approaches architectural design through the lens of the expanded field of interdisciplinary artistic practice, offering students a critical framework for rethinking the role of the architect as both a maker and a mediator of relationships. Central to the course is the idea of love as technology—a system of practices that organizes how we attend to one another and to our environments. Drawing on Donna Haraway’s notion of staying with the trouble and her call for response-ability—the cultivated capacity to respond meaningfully within complex and entangled worlds—this course emphasizes the practice of attentioning as a form of design intelligence. Rather than beginning with form or function alone, students are encouraged to develop situated design methods rooted in observation, care, and speculative thinking. Through interdisciplinary readings, artistic strategies, and collaborative experiments, the course supports architecture students in exploring how love—as communication, action, and care—can serve as a generative, critical, and political design tool. This approach enables young architects to build methodologies that are not only conceptually rigorous but ethically attuned to the social, emotional, and ecological dimensions of contemporary practice.