Studio D Showcase
CA 175 Transforming Objects | Fall 2025
CA 175 Transforming Objects is a first-year-level performing object-making class, in P&D’s Space and Materials stream. It is a required class for first-year P&D students, but we also welcome students from other areas of the SCA and the wider university student body. This class is a studio class with a cap of 24 students. We work in a large theatre studio space.
CA175 Cardboard Wearables: Construction and Video shoots
This assignment centered around the use of recycled cardboard and designing for a body. The class got into groups of 4-5, and were tasked with building a wearable sculptural object(s) that also conveys a metaphor for an inner world manifested as an outer structure. The groups were given several weeks to ideate, prototype, and build their objects. After doing a short presentation of their objects, the second part of the project asked the groups to shoot a short video, using their objects as costumes, miniature film sets, in a short narrative. Studio D was used as a video studio, where students used backdrops, darkness and light to make their narratives.
Enclosure: Silvana Restrepo, Vania Ngok, Jaime McNaughton, Kristin Lee, Adrian Ho
Tell-A-Vision: Zoé Lemay, Patrick Maka, Oliver Medreano, Nicole Wong, Samantha Li
Love Island: Ruby MacCarthy Lamb, Ayessa Macalling, Cam George, Anisha Tang, Jackson Baxter
Recharge: Chelsea Thistle, Jessica Kwon, Angelina Wang, Jordyn Woung, Cheryl Hsu
CA 275 Cardboard Forest: Construction and lobby installation
In this project, which spanned over three weeks, the whole fifteen-student cohort of CA 275 researched, proposed, agreed on, and then prototyped, designed, and engineered eight 12-foot-tall trees constructed out of cardboard, to be installed in the lobby. With the support of GCAPES, we made plans for how the trees will be installed on bases and pipes, supported by the grid of the lobby. We had an example pipe set in Studio D, which became our prototyping station for building the trees in three sections that could be attached together to achieve a larger-than-life height. The forest had to be installed within one afternoon (the class period plus some time after), so there were considerations to ensure the tree sections can be built quickly, as well as being sure they were easy to transport down two floors of the building. We also had to take on audience safety and immersivity considerations. Some details were designed as part of the process (small animals and bugs, fairy doors, flowers and grasses, all made out of cardboard), and they were installed and attached on the day of the install. Three weeks later, the forest was taken down.
Theo Badzio-George, Kady Brandel, Shyam Chand, Amelia Chong, Stefanie Infantino, Jesse Jiang, Rue Larson, Zoe Maschmann, Nolan McCartan, Darwin Miller-Hogg, Dominic Santorelli, Tina Shi, Anisha Tang, Sarah van Wouw, Katelyn McDonald, and Rue Larson.
Featuring cardboard puppets by Dominic Santorelli (Crocodile), Sarah van Wouw (Humanoid), Nolan McCartan (Meerkat), and Miwa Matreyek (Unicorn).
Thank you to the GCAPES team for supporting this install
Install and strike time-lapse footage by Amelia Chong.