Input / Output

For this pairing, Will Miller sent Yiyao Wang a poem, in which he responded through his preferred medium, architectural design.

Miller’s poem explores how there are parts of consciousness that we don’t have words to express. Instead of articulating incredibly specific situations in equally unique ways, we instead rely on a standard social script.

To Miller, this notion is distilled when flipping through obituaries, where unique lives are summed up in clichéd ways. He created a script of code to represent this:

“From my understanding of Will’s poetry, the meaning of a sentence changes when only half of the sentence is changed, even with the basic structure staying the same, and it describes completely different scenarios. I was trying to explore this idea that with the only half of the apartment scene given, how can I use different objects and environments in the second half of the scene to generate different sensations when two parts come together and connect seamlessly.”

-Wang

William Miller

From Bar Harbor, Maine, Miller is currently a student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Yiyao Wang

Wang recently graduated from The Pratt Institute’s architecture program.