This year, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture's Design Philadelphia installation highlights the breadth of interdisciplinary design-build research by students and faculty. Curated by Associate Professor Andrew John Wit, projects range from market stall prototypes recently completed in collaboration with Philadelphia’s Southeast Asian Market to a series of interdisciplinary projects designed and prototyped by Wit along with sculptors, engineers, jewelers, ceramicists, and biologists. 

Projects on View: 

> Three Southeast Asian Market Prototypes -- Instructors: Jeff Richards (Architecture); Mario Gentile (Shiftspace); Tim Barnes (Shiftspace) Students: Kyler Brunner, Matt Celeste, Oliver Duffey, Olivia Filaferro, James Koel, Jake Kropf, Ken Le, Dylan Leik, Jared Lista, Jesenni Maisterrena, Franco Renya, Britney Sciarillo, Payton Sucharski, William Webb, Weijie Wei 

> Rolypoly -- Designed and fabricated by Andrew John Wit (Tyler); Simon Kim (UPenn); Tim Rusterholz (Rustfab)

> CloudMagnet -- Designed and fabricated by: Andrew John Wit (Tyler); Rashida Ng (UPenn); Tonia Hsieh (Temple Biology)
 
> Compressed -- Designed and fabricated by Andrew John Wit (Tyler); Masoud Akbarzadeh (UPenn); Mohammad Bolhassani (UPenn) 

> Periscope -- Designed and fabricated by: Andrew John Wit (Architecture); Doug Bucci (MJCC)