Shared Beds: Ragdale Ring 2019

Launched as an international competition in 2013 to rein¬terpret Howard Van Doren Shaw’s Ring as a temporary, experimental environment, the Ragdale Ring competition has provided young architects and designers the annual occasion to conceive and construct a temporary performance venue and public gathering space on the Ragdale campus in Lake Forest, Illinois. The premise of the competition responds and reinterprets Shaw’s original Ragdale Ring, which was conceived as an open-air theatre for his poet and playwright wife, Frances Wells Shaw.1 As the winning proposal of the competition and built on the grounds of the Ragdale Foundation in June 2019, Shared Beds sought to challenge the role of the individual vis-à-vis the collective by reconsidering the seemingly inanimate quality of everyday objects such as beds and their assumed immutable location inside private domains. Thus, beds are used in this project to invoke a shared public life through a nuanced, abstract language of simple geometrical forms.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.109.12

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978-1-944214-37-1