urban occupation : berlin

here the facebook link to the event, and see caitlin’s description: o we need to all aim to join the group and add as many people as possible. TO FIND THE PAGE; It is listed at a public event under Volksbühne Kubus Occupation. Alternatively, you can add me Caitlin Mills-Sheehy and then on my profile it says i’m attending that event so you can join it that way. ultimately we all need to join and say we are attending and then invite our friends etc so we can get it to spread like wildfire!

Have a little read and look in this little publication I edited with a number of students and colleagues from RMIT,School of Architecture and Design, called ‘Notions of Space’

As originally planned and announced, i will offer a limited number of tutorials on thursday morning, as anything later does not make sense as you otherwise have no time to finish your proposal until friday afternoon. PLEASE choose a slot by checking under comments, which slot is taken und add your preferred time, here is the list for the tutorial-may-28 .

Please make sure you come with your work, as stated previously, whether your project is more action or design based, everyone has to present his/her individual project concept with diagrams or storyboard, and a minimum 200 maximum 300 word text, and 2 collages (one collage focuses on the concept, one collage focuses on the spatial experience). \

You have to have for the tutorial a draft of your text, at least one collage and one diagram or parts of the storyboard!!!

Have FUN!

here the link to the kubus website, they should be able to host our ‘downloads’. also interesting to just look around what they put upo there and whatelse is going on. the website has also the email adresses of the people organizing it, for the ‘teams’ to contact them directly (please cc any emial to viviane and me as well)

http://www.kubus.volksbuehne-berlin.de/

friday a week ago the group decided to organize an event in the kubus on june 1st; last friday we discussed it again and people agreed to be part of specific working groups. it can’t be that one agrees to be part of one working group but than doesn’t show up! i really expect that everyone does his part towards the success of june 1st. it is really important that everyone contributes as much as necessary.

if the scope of the event seems to big for everyone, than let’s just have a public viewing of the documentation and some fun time in the KUBUS, BUT nevertheless that needs some serious preparations and can’t be an stupid ’slide the dvd in and have a warm beer’ meeting. 

here is the password protected pdf with all contact details of everyone in the class

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we are on the kubus website of volksbuehne, featuring us as the opening event

here is a timelapse video from a workshop i did last year with architecture and landscape students from RMIT in Melbourne on an island south of Melbourne. there is also an amazing and funny performance of two students documented in the video. certainly worthwhile watching.

and that is the link for the full (12 min) video with the original sound

Today we send out the invitation to a number of guest critics for the first presentation of concepts.
dear friends and colleagues, including Sebastian Kaiser and Stefan Rosinski (both from Volksbuehne), Olga Skaba and Hartmut Flothman (both from claim), Michael Roper (Australian architect, and Guest Critic at the urban occupation : Action event), Prof Peter-Aribert Herms (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Stuttgart) and Birgit Klauck (ADIP/TU Berlin).

‘The Students from the international urban occupation design studio at the Architecture Design Innovation Program (ADIP) at the TU Berlin, led by Rochus Urban Hinkel with Hélène Frichot, would like to invite you to be a guest critic for the presentation of the very first concepts.
The studio brings together students from Australia, Bulgaria, France, Great Britain, Spain, Poland, Canada and Germany in an exploration of the social and political dimensions of public space through a number of ‘actions’.’

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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

On Friday we decided to do another ‘action’ on Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, this time using the ‘Kubus’ by Volksbuehne as a venue. We will show the documentation movies of the ‘urban occupation : action’. We will use all digital medias to advertise the event, from email and facebook to another other platform we come across. The whole event is in that sense a test run. What crowd can we generate by using those platforms / networks. Concerning the sound to the movies Markus Nielsen und Ramona Reiser have enquired further, they say the radio ‘gig’ will not be possible, but we could be ‘creative’, whatever that means. Currently the idea is, that we organize a headphone party.
Please start thinking about the issues we discussed, like title, image image, text text text…