urban occupation : berlin

the final submission is on friday july 24, latest at 4pm 

please read careful the following instructions,

if you have any questions please send me an email asap

the submission consists of

SUBMISSION OF ONE DVD AND UPLOAD OF ONE PDF ONTO THE BLOG (maybe it includes a movie link to youtube)

SUBMISSION OF DVD IS AT THE FACHGEBIET ADIP AT 4pm, on level 6, or in the ‘briefkasten’  letterbox for fachgebiet A61 on ground floor,

(when you enter the tu building, you walk right, past the cafeteria and at the far end the left door, there are letterboxes) 

DVD INCLUDES

A_PUBLICATION OR BOOKLET

i hope that you all work with indesign for the documentation, as said earlier, photoshop is not really working for documentations!!!!

ABSOLUTELY important: submit your documentation as ‘packed’ indesign file! that means that in that file all images you used in the document will be saved in a folder in their original resolution, which is important because the pdf alone will provide really low res images.

the dimension of the publication is up to you, the format could i.e. also be a publication which consists of a number of publications, like caitlyn’s, elba’s and laure’s final presentation, but caitlyn, elba and laure will need to document and submit the process and concepts 

you might wanna have _a frontcover with image and title_a contentpage with an overview of what is where in the booklet_kind of chapters which make clear what we are looking at in the following pages, like i.e. Urban occupation action, research, early sketches, first concept, …_a separate final or first chapter on the final design proposal or project result

B_MOVIE FILES

also submit on the dvd any movie files in the best resolution you have as an original file and not downsized youtube files.

PDF BLOG SUBMISSION INCLUDES 

A PDF OF YOUR FINAL PROJECT

please upload your final project as pdf with one keyimage which shows your design.

upload onto the blog by 8 pm, friday, july 24 

submit a pdf with a low file size (max 5mb) on the blog under the new final submission category,

you of course can use the same document as your dvd submission, but concentrate primarily on the final project. the overall size will be too large. that means you might need to downsize your file, you might even need to delete some pages or quite a few pages. this is also why the use of indesign is so important, as photoshop produces too large files and you can’t downsize them afterwards.

Here an invitation to an international research colloquium. I have asked some of you to present their projects in this context, you are all invited to come.See the pdf for more information: ui-berlin-colloquium and here is the program schedule: ui-colloquium-berlin-schedule

The Australian research group Urban Interior, based at RMIT University Melbourne, together with the Architecture Design Innovation Program (ADIP) at TU Berlin holds a Colloquium on Thursday, June 25. The colloquium takes place in the Kubus (by Volksbuehne) on Rosa Luxemburg Platz. The Kubus is a temporary public interior with an open space program, and is designed by the stage set designer Bert Neumann, from Volksbuehne Berlin. Three members of the research group, Suzie Attiwill, Mick Douglas and Rochus Urban Hinkel present their recent projects. Out of a number of external guests, Dr Hélène Frichot (RMIT), Alex Schweder (Artist) and Mathias Heyden (TU Berlin) give a presentation about their current research. In addition RMIT interior design students present their ‘occupation’ project, led by Suzie Attiwill, and ADIP students present some projects out of the Urban Occupation design studio at the TU Berlin, led by Rochus Urban Hinkel and Dr Hélène Frichot.

Here’s the pdf of the short lecture about the history of RLP on last friday. It comes with two remarks:

On the occasion of the 60ieth anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany, there is a manifestation against state, nation and capitalism on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (May 23rd, 6 pm). Motto: “Something better than the nation. Against the rule of the wrong freedom”. If you want to expirience the political atmosphere of the place, I guess this is your chance…

Info (german)

If you like it a bit more peaceful, on the first of June (Yes, the day we occupy the Cube and will probably be busy, but anyway) there is a guided tour through the Scheunenviertel following the track of Alfred Döblin and Joseph Roth, starting at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz at 2pm (fee: 7€, probably only interesting if your german is decent).

Info and registration (german)

Friday, May 22

10:00 - 12:00 : BREAKFAST in A204 / studio discussion on process and problems, what to do next, Kubus event, how to go further?
HANDOUT : design : part two

13:30 - 14:30 : THEORY
reading group, today on Bruno Latour
everyone welcome!

14:30 - 17:30 : PRESENTATION of RESEARCH in A204

17:30 : MOVIE + DRINKS

The design studio on thursday will only run from 1.00pm - 4.00pm, means there is no class in the morning; everyone will present his/her individual research within 10 minutes, max 15 minutes. The complete documentation of the whole research will have to be on the blog by latest Monday, May 16.

We established a new category for another level of engagement, researching on the political, historical, social, cultural, build and legal/illegal conditions of Rosa Luxemburg Platz. Resources is a collection of individual research shared with the whole studio team.

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