Interdisciplinary DDE Praxismodul 2018 – Climate Change in Switzerland
Brief
The Latin word "habére"
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highlights and addresses multiple powerful meanings that
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refer today, to the relationship with our environment.
It means, in fact, to "have", to "hold", to "own", or to "possess". It is the etymological root of many words of today's languages. The word "abito
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" in Italian for instance, stands for the noun "dress" but also for the verb "abitare," to "dwell" or to "inhabit," in English. In Italian, it also stands for "abitudine," or "habit," in the sense of "having good or bad habits" exactly like in the English sense. But
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most important, it is also the etymological root of the word "habitat", defining
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in a more holistic way, our environment and the specific
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set of conditions in which a species lives
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All these multiple meanings
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reflect an attitude that humans have towards the environment. On the one hand,
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they stand for something that we "have" or "hold", "own" or "possess", like in the sense of a habit, of a dress, or a home
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, items with a very strong symbolic but also functional
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meaning. On the other
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hand, they stand for something in which we are held within, like a habitat. In other words, it describes an attitude that we keep in reaction to an external condition, but at the same time, it is the outer condition in itself.
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Based on these etymological
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considerations of the word "habitat", students will be encouraged to reflect upon the fragility of the human existence under the constant threat of change (historical, technological, sociological, environmental, etc.). Based on the narrative of climate, students will be specifically asked to imagine and to build a 1:1 interior of the "house of the future", made of corrugated cardboard, as a symbolic material that stands for precarity, temporary, fragility, of human existence on the planet. The "home of the future" will be constructed as cultural, theatrical, scenographic prop. Students will be divided into groups and develop the different part of what it will be considered the "future of living" based on the primary human activities that define our domestic landscape. The course will establish a temporary "cardboard lab" where the construction and realization of a collective interior of the future will be guided, reflected, developed.
Connection to Climate Change:
Overall goals:
- taking the notion of climate change as a narrative (inviting scenographers on the discourse)
- setting up a Cardboard Laboratory as a space for spatial cardboard props reflecting different angles on climate change
- democratic decision-making on the process
- the Cardboard Laboratory takes cardboard as a temporarily media of civilisation
- role of landscape and theatre
- students work in groups on different scales (abito ~ human approach; habit ~ social approach; agitare ~ ecological approach;)
- in the first two weeks setting up a scenography, such as a Laboratory for treating Mind Illness through Climate Effects or space capsule for Escapists, )
- in the second two weeks the students bring their settings into live, with storyboards, acting, performing, inviting, improvising, interacting..
- outcome will be recorded movies as well as scenes from the Cardboard Lab in the final exhibition of the interdisciplinary DDE modul
- role of landscape and theatre
- the basic conceptualisation and chosen materials is fixed – the students focus on their personal angle on the topic and train their skills in experience prototyping (as interaction design method)
- thinking fiction in stories and acting sustainable with "usual" cardboard
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