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Yona Friedman, Merzstrukturen (work in progress), 2006, courtesy of Museo di Rovereto.

Interdisciplinary DDE Praxismodul 2018 – Climate Change in Switzerland

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The Latin word "habére" highlights and addresses multiple powerful meanings that 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" in Italian for instance, stands for the noun "dress“clothes" but also for the verb "abitare," - to "dwell“dwell" or to "inhabit," in English. In Italian, it . It also stands for "abitudine," or "habit," in the sense of "having good or bad habits" exactly like in the English sense. But most importantimportantly, it is also the etymological root of the word "habitat", defining in a more holistic way, our environment and the specific set of conditions in which a species lives.
All these multiple meanings reflect an attitude that humans have towards the environment. On one hand, they They stand for something that we "have" or "hold", "own" or "possess", like in the sense of a habit, of a dressclothes, or a home , items with a very strong symbolic but also functional meaning. On the other hand- 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 in itself.

Based on these etymological considerations of the word "habitat", students will be encouraged to reflect upon the fragility of the human existence under the constant threat of change (political, economic, technological, sociological, environmental, etc.). Based on 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. 

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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;)

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Materials to organize:

- [C] How much cardboard shall we order and where? 400m2
http://brieger.ch/de/verpackungszubehor/wellkarton-in-rollen-und-bogen/wellkarton-in-bogen.html (next day order)

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