MUSE – Mobile Urban Studio Experience: in the city, of the city, for the city

The Mobile Urban Studio Experience (MUSE) is a provoca- tion and proposal in, and beyond, education. It contributes to current discussions and processes on physical and digital space, education, and university life before, during, and post pandemic, and for a re-examina- tion of the relationships between the academy and the city/community, between the academy and the professional communities, and between the academy and the broader world. Hopefully MUSE might contribute to more nimble, responsive, resilient, and facile relationships amongst the creative professions and local and global communities in an ongoing manner of varying durations and in moments of peace, prosperity, crisis, or war. MUSE can be an active contributor in the matter, and matters, of design culture. MUSE could create new cultures in design as well as affect issues, processes, and production of design and design culture. Further, MUSE underlines that design culture matters. And that the issues surrounding and forming design culture can be as important as the products, processes, people, and materials of design. At this moment, MUSE, especially in its fullest and most complex triad modality, is still an embryonic creative tool, method, and system... a sort of creative Swiss-army-knife for education, professional practice, and social/humanitarian efforts and actions.