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.

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/

by Pawlowski/Andonow

here’s the next one, unfortunately the camera short-circuited the construction site’s power supply, so there’s not much to see from the night… anyway. further timelapses will follow. if anyone is interested in a special area which should be monitored, please let me know.

cheers

Amazing work by JR ( http://jr-art.net/ ). Transforming the the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/hills-have-eyes.html

by Niklas Kuhlendahl (D), Shaun Motsi (CAN) and Catalin Werb (D)

Josef Ackermann, ‘Ché’ Guevara and Lenin have, maybe because of the current crisis, buried their political differences and become friends. Their willingness to compromise has been rewarded with: a new job! They’ve become the mascot team of a supermarket chain called “World Trade” which has just recently opened their newest affiliate in Berlin, at, of all places, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. Like Zombies subsisting on the living political leaders and theorists, they flutter around the place, reminding us of the popular accusation that our generation/time was ‘apolitical’. Here we are at the pivotal point of the installation: We want to further inquire this common assumption and find out if it is rightful, or if not just the means or the appearance or the sphere of political struggle has shifted. In order to find out, our three alter egos approach the passing participants in capitalism, asking them for anything disposable which they can deposit in the ‘bad bank’. This litter is immediately turned into credit for the shopping basket. After having chosen a give-away, they are invited to leave a political slogan of their choice in our ‘supermarket of political vanity’, eventually creating a ‘zeitgeist-collage’. Of course, it is over the top to declare the resulting collage of stickers a representative compilation of present political attitudes, as the repertory of slogans was limited and predetermined. However, as a general reminder of other times when people actually dared taking a chance and trying to change the course of the processes affecting them, we hope it might have worked.

The way that the installation dealt with its surroundings could be called parasitic, as we used (even manipulated) the existing facilities for our purposes. We have to admit that the cubes framework was a piece of luck; originally we intended to use the billboard instead (which proved to be illegal). With our supermarket table and our supermarket soundtrack, it was possible to subtly evoke a distinct room amidst the public space – without having to visibly/physically border it. The many nice associations created by attaching a sign ‘World Trade Centre’ to an actual tower-shaped construction site are open to the passer-by to either appreciate or ignore.

Photos of the action:

Ackermann in action

At the supermarket.

Lady attaching a flyer.

Group Photo

Overview of the finished action.

documentation (pdf):World Trade Supermarkt

by  Mesimaaria Koponen (FIN), Caitlin Mills-Sheehy (AUS), Caitlyn Parry (AUS), Laure Severac (F)

The two starting points were public space as a means to an ends (a space that must be overcome to reach ones destination), and the definitions of a territory.  We were interested in prompting a response from the public using a technique that did not require a direct asking of them, which was proven as the most successful way of engagement from the instant occupation action.   One travels through a number of spaces or territories in any one day. These territories, on a gross level, can be defined by structural elements such as walls, doors, signs etc, however we were wanting to explore and set up situations where one (the public) had to create a territorial membrane from more non tangible elements. We decided to create a territory where the barrier (referred to as a membrane) to the territory takes the form of the senses (touch: static and dynamic, sound and vision: reflections). Four methods of territory definition were created, each performed for 15 minutes over 2 cycles.  3 people participated at one time, with the third documenting.

Act one was shuffling along the stairs with the intention of obstruction the public’s line of travel (with the intensity of the obstruction adjusted to the individual’s capacity to interact ie: elderly were omitted),

Act two involved lying on the stairs forming zig zag spaces to see if the public would step over the performers or conform to the created pathways.

Act three was to create a triangular space with sound (each person making a noise ie. clapping, vocal noise and scraping metal object down tiled wall).

Act four was using mirrors to create an intensity between the 3 performers where one reflected the others image in the triangle.

The questions to be answered were: which of the methods was more conducive in creating a non-permeable membrane to a territory that the public acknowledged, respected or were confused by, how can one engage the public and provide a haptic experience, and what methods broke the daily monotony of the pedestrian action of the exiting/entering the u-bahn.

documentation (pdf): Territorial Membranes Action

1_please upload for the instant occupation your revised pdf, name the pdf whatever the project is called.

2_please upload for the urban occupation with a new post in the following order a.) the project title b.) 300 word description c.) 3 minute video (on youtube) d.) 5 images e.) the pdf (using the instant occupation template)

The urban occupation actions are all happening on thursday on and around Rosa-Luxemburg Platz in Berlin. The walk arounds, with presentation and discussions are at 13.00 and 15.00, a number of guest will come.

We will go for dinner together after the actions, see you all at 5.30 at “Good mornig Vietnam”, Alte Schönhauser Straße 60

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