urban occupation : berlin

on may 1 numerous individual ‘instant occupations’ were undertaken by everyone in the workshop, a first step is made and first testing have started, some examples here:

iron curtain supermarket + interviews/ shoot horst liebknecht (be shot with karl wessel) / antoine-martin / 5 vor 12 / what are you looking for? / caitlyn parry / caitlin mills /spy games / paperchase / yourspace / test no 1 / capitalistic picnic / aufstand der zeichen

Our guest Antonia Pont and our ADIP team provided a strong feedback and discussed ideas how to collaborate as a team for the Urban Occupation : Action

read the studio critique here>instant-occupation_critique.doc

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, as many of the precedents will have self-proclaimed manifestos that describe what their work is about and what their key intentions and ambitions are. A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions. It states in forthright, strong and unambiguous language a vision for the future and for future actions. Usually a manifesto is political in tone or else states some ethical stance, or suggests a new modes of living and acting in a world. We are also very interested in the Techniques and Tools. What is the approach or methodology of the actor/s? How do they undertake their action? What tools, materials, and settings do they use?  Finally a summary what the actual Outcome is. What happens as a result of the action? here some precedents:

fluxus / hanna hoech / banksy / la monte young / olafur eliasson / raumlabor / stalker / john cage / joseph beuys / stelarc / asger jorn / cow parade / nam_june_paik

First Action: May Day 09    -   Studio Critique

urbanoccupationaction_adip09critique

adip team:
rochus hinkel (rmit university/tu berlin) >>
hélène frichot (rmit university/research fellow tu berlin) >>

guests (chronological):
sebastian kaiser, volksbuehne>>) / stefan rosinski, volksbuehne>> / wibke behrens, ngbk >>/ antonia pont>> / michael roper / alex martinis roe>> >>/ davide bozza / olga skaba & hartmut flothmann, claim >> / jean-philippe vassal, lacaton&vassal, paris>>/ peter-aribert herms, staatliche akademie der bildenden kuenste stuttgart >>/ thomas arnold, oxford brooks and workspheres >>/ hannah hurtzig, mobil academy, black market archive>>>>/ suzie attiwill, rmit university, melbourne >> /  mathias heyden, ispara and tu berlin >> / susanne hofmann, baupiloten tu berlin >> / birgit klauck, adip tu berlin >> /  

students:
Ivan Andonow (BG)perfect dinner/ Christopher Comrie (GB) exhibition / Ryan Finn (GB) L I G H T part-3/ Elba Garcia-Clark (ESP) hideout/rear-window / Mesimaaria Koponen (FIN) / Niklas Kuhlendahl (D) move abroad / Antoine Martin (F) / Caitlin Mills-Sheehy (AUS) / Shaun Motsi (CAN) / Caitlyn Parry (AUS) / Jakob Pawlowski (PL) / Michael Schulz (D) / Laure Severac (F)/ Catalin Werb (D)

here are the studio contact-details as a secured pdf

a workshop and design studio at the Architecture Design Innovation Program (ADIP), TU Berlin

One of the essential characteristics of urbanity is public space. Freely accessible for everyone at any given time it is as much an aesthetic and architectural space as it is a political and social place. Public space is threatened through commercialization and privatization, often driven by the lack of public financial resources. These conditions have transformed public space from a political space and place of community and identity to either abandoned or commercialized anonymous non-places.

The design proposal within this studio deals with aesthetic and architectural qualities as much as it interrogates the political and social conditions. We want to create a space that allows for political ownership, as well as for adaptation and change in order to create a place with multiple identities, and a diversity of urban life and active inhabitation.

The studio emphasizes process as a crucial part in the development of design proposals. We share our observations through documentation of the given scenario, analysis, discussion and reflection on the given condition. Installations, events and provocations reflect our ideas and create a new engagement with the place. Design Scenarios are developed through collages and lead to design proposals that prioritize the experience of a place, the creation of identity, and individual and collective occupation.

Co-operation partner:
Volksbühne Berlin

Guests:
NGBK - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst
Mathias Heyden, ISPARA
Schwarzmarktarchiv / mobile academy / Hannah Hurtzig