urban occupation : berlin

13:00 - 17:00 : PRESENTATION in the KUBUS (by Volksbuehne) on Rosa Luxemburg Platz

whether your project is more action or design based, friday may 29, everyone has to present his/her individual project concept with diagrams/storyboard, minimum 200 maximum 300 word text, and 2 collages (one collage focuses on the concept, one collage focuses on the spatial experience.

afterwards : MOVIE NIGHT + DRINKS

Come and join us for the ADIP lecture by
Prof. Marc Bourdier, La Villette School of Architecture, Paris
in cooperation with Ambassade de France, Service Culturel - CCCL Berlin
Wed, 20.05.2009, 2 p.m. in A 053, lecture in english

we decided to do another action on Rosa-Luxemburg Platz in collaboration with Volksbuehne. We will occupy the Kubus on June 1, from 5-10pm, with movies and actions and lots of guests. more information soon. Put it down in your calendar! Everyone welcome

here the link to the facebook event page with more informations!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=83663269741

Friday, May 22

10:00 - 12:00 : BREAKFAST in A204 / studio discussion on process and problems, what to do next, Kubus event, how to go further?
HANDOUT : design : part two

13:30 - 14:30 : THEORY
reading group, today on Bruno Latour
everyone welcome!

14:30 - 17:30 : PRESENTATION of RESEARCH in A204

17:30 : MOVIE + DRINKS

Markus Nielsen and Ramona Reiser will meet with us on friday, may 15 at 11.30 in the studio to discuss their ideas and the procedure on how to be involved in the kubus event on Rosa Luxemburg Platz by Volksbuehne. We hope to be able to fix some dates for an event showing your urban occupation : actions in the kubus. My idea is to project the videos with video projectors inside the Kubus.

Martin will be available tomorrow, Tuesday May 12, to help setting up the wireless laptop. But only for 30 minutes, from 2.00-2.30pm, so make sure you will be there on time. Please bring account name and password for your TU account

Here are the new readings for this week friday, as always password protected:

1. Michael Speaks, Which Way Avant-garde?  2. Sarah Whiting and Robert Somol, Notes Around the Doppler Effect and other Moods of Modernism 3. Reinhold Martin, Critical of What? Toward a Utopian Realism

The reading group will meet at 1.30pm to continue the discussion, everyone is welcome.  

Reinhold Martin, Critical of What? Toward a Utopian Realism / Sarah Whiting and Robert Somol, Notes Around the Doppler Effect and other Moods of Modernism / Michael Speaks, Which Way Avant-garde? 

The design studio on thursday will only run from 1.00pm - 4.00pm, means there is no class in the morning; everyone will present his/her individual research within 10 minutes, max 15 minutes. The complete documentation of the whole research will have to be on the blog by latest Monday, May 16.

1_please upload for the instant occupation your revised pdf, name the pdf whatever the project is called.

2_please upload for the urban occupation with a new post in the following order a.) the project title b.) 300 word description c.) 3 minute video (on youtube) d.) 5 images e.) the pdf (using the instant occupation template)

The urban occupation actions are all happening on thursday on and around Rosa-Luxemburg Platz in Berlin. The walk arounds, with presentation and discussions are at 13.00 and 15.00, a number of guest will come.

We will go for dinner together after the actions, see you all at 5.30 at “Good mornig Vietnam”, Alte Schönhauser Straße 60