urban occupation : berlin

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/

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? 

Thanks a lot Martin, for spending your saturday afternoon making this blog work!

I’ve already mentioned the Fis-Broker website in class; here’s the exact link:

http://fbinter.stadt-berlin.de/fb/index.jsp

The site is really helpful, it features all kinds of downloadable maps of berlin: from the middle ages to the 80ies, from climatic data to social structures…

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A note for all of you who know as much about video editing as I do (nothing):

The interflugs - bureau (which also lends out all kinds of electronical equipment) is offering a free workshop on video editing:

Adobe After Effects: 3 days: Saturday 16.5.09 11.30h + Sunday 17.5.09 11.30h + Monday 18.5.09 13.30h.

For details see: http://www.interflugs.de/if/?cat=1

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Searching the net for infos related to Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, I found an ‘association for the promotion of art and culture on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz’.

They have, among other things, annually invited artists to work on and about Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. It might be of advantage to get in touch with them, although they seem to have been rather inactive recently. Here’s the link:

www.rosa-luxemburg-platz.net/rosa_luxemburg_platz_ev.html

Should I write them a mail or should we wait until we have a clearer idea about what to do on R.L.P.?

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

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