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Grand Finale
Two weeks after the final presentation, the final submission is due. The end of a long, and short, semester. Some will go back home to their home countries, some will continue their studies in Berlin. Afterall an exciting experience, i hope, for all of us. Helene and I enjoyed working with you a lot. All the best.
Please see here for the final occupation
Kubus Occupation : Mid-Semester Critique
A day of discussions and presentations! Our external Guest Critics included Prof Peter Aribert Herms from the State Academy of Fine Art in Stuttgart, Hannah Hurtzig from Mobile Academy / Blackmarket Archive, Thomas Arnold from Oxford Brooks and Suzie Attiwill from RMIT University, Melbourne. At the end of this long day Hannah Hurtzig presented the projects from Mobile Academy, Kiosk, and Black Market Archive in the Kubus. Hannah is currently exhibiting one of her projects at the Art Biennale in Venice. A very productive day with exciting projects and great conversations. See the mid-semester presentations here >
Kubus Occupation : headphone event
Another test and experiment was a headphone event we were throwing on a public holiday, June 1, in the Kubus on Rosa-Luxemburg Platz. We were only using digital platforms and tools, which are generally used for social networks in virtual space to create a crowd in real space, on Rosa-Luxemburg Platz. More than 100 visitors joined us to listen see our videos of occupations, to listen to our soundtracks and to hear the sound of the videos we did set up our won (pirate) radio station and broadcasted within the Kubus. Alternatively one could download the sound files beforehand onto ones mp3 player. and See the event website, or connect top the facebook event page.
Video of the occupation here>
Kubus Occupation : Concepts
On May 29 the students of the international design studio Urban Occupation were presenting their very first concepts with diagrams, storyboards, collages and text, to a number of guest critics. Here You find the written feedback on all the different projects. The results can soon be seen here>design concepts
Urban Occupation : Action
We learned from the instant occupations, a first test in occupying public space, and formed teams to collaborate on further actions/occupations. We did interact with space and public through active inhabitation, provocation, happenings and installations in order to discover the diversity and potential of a given public space. Many thanks to our guest critics Michael Roper (architect) and Alex Martinis Roe (installation and performance artist).
check out the cool urban occupation : actions here>
Instant Occupation
The first test, in a way a self-experiment in scale 1:1 was the exposure of oneself individually on the 1st of May in public space. A quite different experience of the public space for most of us, engaging with strangers, starting conversations, …Many thanks to Antonia Pont, our guest critic on that day.
see examples of the instant occupations here>
Kick Off - Precedents
The workshop started with individual research on precedents in art and architecture, using a common shared indesign template to fill in informations concerning authors, actors, title, date, location and most important the manifesto.
have a look at the precedents here>
