urban occupation : berlin

The studio occupied the Kubus (by Volksbuehne) throughout the semester with events, lectures, talks and presentations

Urban Occupation
Monday, 06.07.2009 // 15:00 // Kubus Volksbühne
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin-Mitte

*Rochus Urban Hinkel and Hélène Frichot, both visiting from RMIT University Melbourne, Australia, finish their teaching semester; incl. seminar review, Bionade & beer

Best wishes + see you on Monday,
the ADIP team: Hélène Frichot, Luisa Greenfield, Rochus Urban Hinkel, Martin Hartwig, Viviane Hülsmeier, Birgit Klauck, Bärbel Rost

ADIP - Architecture Design Innovation Program
TU Berlin / IfA Institut für Architektur / FG Entwerfen und Innenraumplanung / Dauergastprofessur

Sekr A 61
Straße des 17. Juni 152
10623 Berlin
www.a.tu-berlin.de/adip/

The Final Presentation

is in the Kubus (by Volksbuehne) 

C O L O U R S

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>

urban occupations

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>

instant occupations

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>

precedents

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!

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/

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

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…