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Point Publication
Founded with Emma Mcdevitt and Romi MollerFor more visit point-soa.cargo.site
POINT is a multimedia publication for dissemination of student work developed collaboratively by students in Syracuse University’s School of Architecture and the College of Visual Performing Arts’ School of Design. POINT creatively explores academic and professional realms of architecture and design by amplifying student voices through creating a venue for students to engage with one another more personally and profoundly, extending critical discourse beyond the classroom.
What sets POINT apart from any other student-led publication is that it derives its content from various forms of expression. POINT encourages passionate in-person debate, which creates an inviting space within Syracuse University for students to express themselves in a way that they might not in a traditional classroom setting. Complementary to live debate, POINT is a creative outlet where students share thoughts through producing written and visual materials to be published in print. Regardless of medium, the goal of POINT is to ensure students push themselves intellectually out of an intrinsic need for something to be heard rather than having good grades be the motivating factor.
These ideas come together to produce an archival piece each semester: a risograph-printed publication that is a manifestation of accumulations of thought, discourse, and design, capturing emerging zeitgeists of our design communities over time and leaving a physical archive of ideas in the very place that continues to foster them.
POINT provides spaces that enable students to engage with concepts, events, people, and places that they find most interesting and/or underrepresented. In the same way that architecture lends itself to many different belief systems and forms of practice, POINT captures various impressions and “points” that inspire students throughout their academic experiences. Through POINT, students can further explore ideas, apply skills, and challenge principles taught in class.
There is no point but to make one.