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Yona Friedman, Merzstrukturen (work in progress), 2006, courtesy of Museo di Rovereto.
Interdisciplinary DDE Praxismodul 2018 – Climate Change in Switzerland
Instructors
Dr Joëlle Bitton
Dr Antonio Scarponi
Clemens Winkler
Timeframe
The module takes place over 4 weeks, from 26.03.18 to 20.04.18, from Tuesday to Friday, 9.00-17.00 - see timetable below for detailed hours and classrooms. Class sessions include discussions, mentoring sessions, in-class exercises, and independent study blocks.
Projects are conducted individually or in a team (up to four students).
Overview and Objectives: Habitat & Climate Change threats
The Latin word "habére
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highlights and
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addresses multiple powerful meanings that
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refer today
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to the relationship with our environment.
It means 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
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“clothes" but also for the verb "abitare
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" - to
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“dwell" or to "inhabit
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. It also stands for "abitudine," or "habit," in the sense of "having good or bad habits"
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. But
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most
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importantly, 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 meanings reflect an attitude that humans have towards the environment.
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They stand for something that we "have", "own" or "
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possess", like in the sense of a habit, of
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clothes, or a home
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- both symbolic and functional items. As well, 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
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in itself.
Based on these etymological considerations of the word "habitat", students will be
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encouraged to reflect upon the
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fragility of the
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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 existence under the constant threat of change (political, economic, technological, sociological, environmental, etc.). With the narrative of climate, students will be specifically asked to imagine and to build a 1:1 interior of a habitat and highlights specific details of that domestic landscape.
The material for this habitat is corrugated cardboard, as a symbolic material that stands for precarity, temporary, fragility, of human existence on the planet. In particular, the constraint of the uncertainty of what tomorrow is made of (anything can happen) should be emphasised in the overall creative process.
As that habitat is shaped, it has the potential to become a theatrical and scenographic prop where a narrative can occur, and can serve as landscape for further contexts.
The course will be established in a temporary "cardboard lab", a room where the construction and realisation of that habitat will be guided and reflected upon.
Constraints:
Narrative
- taking the notion of climate change and its threats as a narrative
- students work on different scales (abito ~ human approach; habit ~ social approach; agitare ~ ecological approach;)
Material
- the basic conceptualisation and chosen materials is fixed – the students focus on their personal angle on the topic and train their skills 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, )experience prototyping (as interaction design method)
- the Cardboard Laboratory takes cardboard as a temporarily media of civilisation
- critical perspective on the material: usually used in very precarious settigns
Scenography
- in the second two weeks part of the module, the students bring their settings into livelife, with storyboards, acting, performing, inviting, improvising, interacting..
- the 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)
Timetable:
Deliverables
- Photos, Recordings
- Instagram Account
- Booklet to lay out for final day
Timetable
Availability of Lecturers in brackets []
week 1
| Week 1: Preparation Week (KW13) | |||
| Monday, 26.03.2018 |
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| Symposium | [C] [J] |
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| Kunstraum | |
| Tuesday, 27.03.2018 |
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| 9.00 Intro - Ideation Structure of the weeks 13.00 Making-Workshop at Aktionsraum with J. Popper | [C] | Aktionsraum | |
| Wednesday, 28.03.2018 |
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| 9.00-13.00 Reflection and conversation on the notions of the brief Task develop story plot | [C] | Aktionsraum | |
| Thursday, 29.03.2018 | Organise Material - Independent study | Aktionsraum | |
| Easter Break | |||
Week 2: Concept and Narrative Development (KW14) | |||
| Tuesday, 03.04.2018 |
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| 9.00-11.00 Presentations of first plots workshop with characters and keywords | [C] [A] |
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| [J] | Aktionsraum |
| Wednesday, 04.04. |
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| 2018 | 9.00-11.00 walk around & project work | [A] |
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| Aktionsraum | |
| Thursday, 05.04. |
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| 2018 | 13.00-15.00 walk around & project work | [A] [J] | Aktionsraum |
| Friday, 06.04. |
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| 2018 | 14.00-16.00 walk around & project work | [C] [A] |
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| Aktionsraum |
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Week 3: Execution (KW15) | |||
| Tuesday, 10.04.2018 |
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| 11.00-13.00 walk around & project work | [A] |
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| Aktionsraum | |
| Wednesday, 11.04.2018 |
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| 9.00-11.00 walk around & final filming | [A] | Aktionsraum | |
| Thursday, 12.04.2018 |
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| 9.00-11.00 Pre-presentations at Aktionsraum 12.30-14.00 photographs with us art directing 15.00-18.00 dismantle | [C] [A] [J] | Aktionsraum | |
| Friday. 13.04.2018 | 09.00-11.00 Discuss deliverables & remind to students | [C] [A] | Ateliers |
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| Tuesday, 17.04.2018 | Independent study | Ateliers | |
| Wednesday, 18.04.2018 | 9.00 - 11.00 Postproduction (Print for public presentations) | [A] | Ateliers |
| Thursday, 12.04.2018 | Preparing presentations | Ateliers/ Kunstraum | |
| Friday, 20.04.2018 | 14.00-17.00 Final public exhibitions at Kunstraum | [C] [A] [J] | Kunstraum |
Materials to organize:
- [C] How much cardboard shall we order and where? (C)
I guess, cardboards can be ordered from the Werkstatt. I could ask Thomas and see how that works. For aesthetic reasons, I would ask, if possible, to order 4mm sandwich corrugated cardboard with WHITE coating. The reason is simply that it could be interesting in the Toni White cubers room. But brown is also ok, I am not picky on that. There are other good reasons to use the brown one. (A)
- Order (hot) glue and tape? (C > ITZ Shop) 400m2
http://brieger.ch/de/verpackungszubehor/wellkarton-in-rollen-und-bogen/wellkarton-in-bogen.html (next day order)
- [C] Buy (hot) glue, wood glue and tape?
I am not sure. I am wondering if we can get that in Jumbo as they might have more variety.
In the cardboard lab we would need:
Fast white glue (wood type)
Normal white glue (wood type)
Hot glue + gun.
Stiches + gun.
Wooden Plank
BBQ or even better cheap chop sticks for horizontal connections panel 2 panel.
- Space question (C > Mail to Corina and Flurina) [C] Space question – Preferably a permanent space: Aktionsraum
Yes, this is important. We need a room that we can book. We need that ASAP. Ideally an Atelier space.
- [C] Which media equipment do we need? (C)
White board, flip chart, beamer projector . Daylight would not be bad. - we take from the seminar room and the lab
Anything else ???
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First notes
joëlle:
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make outcome graspable
urgency
time pressure
what is the cost of living a quiet life?
additional notes
Uncertainty, "you don't know what tomorrow is made of"
"mobile": root of the word, furniture that you have to take it with you from one day to the next (Italian farmers)
Transience
Reflections on the issue of property
Brief: students are not problem-solving for potential future consumers, they are the actors of their own world
deleted from brief:
- setting up a Cardboard Laboratory as a space for spatial cardboard props reflecting different angles on climate change
-- 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, )
antonio:
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clemens:
_how to formulate hyperlocal experiences on a global topic?
_how would CO2 balancing (compensation and creation of it) affect cryptocurrency?
_uncovering human relationship to climate change in history
_different layers of the atmosphere get sold (in terms of finding "stable windows")
_ways of articulating climate through computational data, performances, political debates(climate change conference bonn) - (http://www.olafureliasson.net blog)
_material speculation workshop on clouds* as spin-off for the seminar (potentially, I could ask a professor for a Skype conversation within our seminar – I met her at MIT – Weather in a tank - cloudsYouTube)
*(f.l.t.r. Nebula (artificial cloud) exhibition in Zurich 2016, "Per-Forming Clouds" Workshops 2016-now, junior summer school on geo engineering/ cloud seeding "Stormy Weathers" at ZHdK 2017)
_personally wishful process/outcomes: narratives about living with our climate in 2100 (climate forces new materials to arise or stock markets exchanges), models and simulations of climate/ trading systems, instruments for observation)
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