Hi all,
please all post your criteria(derived form your fascination?) for the workshop(s), so the proposals can be fitted to them.
REPLY THEM TO THIS POST, so we keep track.
if your criteria are specific for a certain workshop, please metion this aswell.
one other(not really unimportant) point:
SIGN your blog contributions,
so other people know eachothers opinions and can reply, it makes the blogging think a lot easier....
thanks,
Joeri
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I would like to have a creative excursion. One idea is to live in temporary shelters where ever we decide to go. For example, if we went to Paris we could contact the architecture university there and ask to have some space for an experiment in temporary shelter design... and then live there for a week! This might also have to involve renting port-a-potty toilets, but I think it would be a very creative experiment for all of us. If combined with a road trip, we could bring a trailer along and collect material as we travel! So, basically my criteria is that we should build our own shelter wherever we go.
ReplyDelete~nels nelson
i like nels' idea; let's build! i also think it would be interesting if the trip itself was an exploration (the act of searching or traveling a terrain for the purpose of discovery, e.g. of unknown people, including space) ... so no destination, rather a journey with no defined goal. potentially qualitative research can be conducted to provide indications of how people get along in their habitat, what meanings they give to their actions, what issues concern them; all with regard to spatial layout. this way we could try to incorporate everyone's fascinations within a methodology... * laura
ReplyDeleteI would also like a creative excursion, but I would prefer it if we could know some things in forhand. for instance the places where we would go. this way we can all look into the information of the paces. (and maybe also get some idea of the costs.) I would love to see how other students in other places handle a design task. So the idea of Nels visiting the university of Paris sounds great to me!
ReplyDeletegreetings Anouk
I like the idea of Nels, and I'm open to anything. But I agree with Anouk to prepare some things. There is a difference between a roadtrip and a workshop, in a sense that a workshop should have a little more content and should be a tool to get you to ideas/views/produciton.
ReplyDeleteIf the workshop has a theme, a goal or a narrative throughout it, it will get much more interesting. This will bring you the opportunity to give the workshop content, such as an introduction with lectures or readings (e.g. on France, nomadic life, Le Corbusiers tour to Istanbul/Athens, ...), and fill it up with activities (e.g. mapping, photography, drawing assignments, ...). These could -but do not by definition- bound you to places or methods of transport. And like Nels proposes, we should get in touch with one of the universities that has an architecture department in Paris, Iceland, or where we are going.
Concerning particular goals for the workshop...not really. I am in for the idea of creative workshop as well. The proposal of movie-making workshop seems challenging too.
ReplyDeleteThinking about the road trip, there are some things possibly interesting to incorporate, such as:
http://www.inselhombroich.de/museum.htm
http://www.ruhr-tourismus.de/en.html
http://www.ruhr-tourismus.de/en/channel-industrie-denkmal.html
(Zollverein School of Management & Design, Essen, Germany)
Hi everybody,
ReplyDeleteLike Laura said we think we should focus on what the goal is instead of the destination of our excursion. Almost everybody likes the idea of going to Paris, but for what reason? What does Paris have to give for our excursion that we cannot do somewhere else?
Like Joeri just said, we have to think how we can make everybody interested to go with this excursion. So it shouldn't cost to much. The program of the workshop should be fixed for 3 or 4 days and sort of obligatory. But the how you get there and the duration of your stay can be up to you.
We can imagine that some people want to go there for free by hitchhiking or by moped or take the train and be there fast. That we can leave to you.
In order to limit our budget we shouldn't go too far if we don't have to.
We think that everybody should think about a theme for the workshop. Any idea is welcome. We are thinking about something like:
Senses
A five day workshop related to perception of space through senses. First day we explore a place (city/park/museum/...) by sight. We define e.g. color or light. Second day we explore space through hearing, then taste, smell and feeling.
Invisible worlds
Explore a city from different perspectives, such as the city from immigrant perspective, from commuter perspective, tourist, worker, expat, homeless, ...
These are just two ideas, we hope everybody comes up with more/better themes. If the theme is strongly related to a specific place, this could be an argument to go to this place! For example influence of financial crisis on society (Iceland), European politics and space (Luxemburg/Brussels), mapping spatial influence of the Language border (Brussels)
Blog!! Reply!!
Erik, Toon
I like Nels' idea of building your own shelter, and with the idea that has been circling, of focussing more on the trip than on the destination. We could, for instance, take four or five days to travel to Paris, and then spend the weekend in a hostel and travel back by train. On the other hand, starting in an unfamiliar place and then trying to get back home can be interesting too, it has a greater sense of urgency.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'd like to experience or discover in the trip, are places of tranquility.
Jaron