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Brief

Habére / Habitat
The Latin word "habére" (to have, or to "hold"), highlights and address multiple powerful meanings that refers, today, to the relationship with our environment. The word "abito," in Italian, 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, most important, it is also the root of the word "habitat" defining, in a more holistic way, our environment and the specific environmental condition in which a species lives, including humans. 
These multiple meanings also hide an attitude that humans have towards the environment. On the one hand, it stands for something we "have" or "hold" like in the sense of a habit, of a dress, or a home. It is at the same time something symbolic, but also functional like a hut. On the other side, it is 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 itself. 

The etymological root of habère, well define the condition in which climate change forces us. A change of the state in which we are contained - our climate that affects our habitat - which forces us to change and adapt our habits or the way we dwell. 
Based on the reading of the etymological routes of the word habitat, students will be asked to develop a concrete project that reflects upon the consequences of the deep meaning of "dwelling" considered in the broadest sense a result of the climate change in Switzerland. Students will be provided with three to five critical keys to frame the challenge and operate inside a contextualized discourse.


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)


Timetable:
Availability of Lecturers in brackets []

week 1
Monday, 26.03.2018                    symposium at Kunstraum            [C] [J]   
Tuesday, 27.03.2018                   project work                                  [C] [A]   
Wednesday, 28.03.2018              project work                                  [C] [A]   
Thursday, 29.03.2018                  project work                                  [C] [A]   
Friday, 30.03.2018                       project work                                  [C] [A]   

week 2
Tuesday, 03.04.2018                    project work                                 [C] [A]   
Wednesday, 04.04.2018               project work                                 [C] [A]   
Thursday, 05.04.2018                   project work                                 [C] [A]    
Friday, 06.04.2018                        project work                                 [C] [A]   

week 3
Tuesday, 10.04.2018                    project work                                  [C] [A]      
Wednesday, 11.04.2018               project work                                  [C] [A]     
Thursday, 12.04.2018                   interim presentations                    [C] [J] [A]   
Friday, 13.04.2018                        project work                                  [C] [A]     

week 4
Tuesday, 17.04.2018                    project work                                  [C] [A] 
Wednesday, 18.04.2018               project work                                  [C] [A] 
Thursday, 19.04.2018                   project work                                  [C] [A] 
Friday, 20.04.2018                        final exhibition at Kunstraum        [C] [J] [A]   




Materials to organize:

- 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)

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.

BBQ or even better cheap chop sticks for horizontal connections panel 2 panel. 


- Space question (C > Mail to Corina and Flurina)

Yes, this is important. We need a room that we can book. We need that ASAP. Ideally an Atelier space. 


- Which media equipment do we need? (C)

White board, flip chart, beamer projector. Daylight would not be bad. 

- ???















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First notes

joëlle:

  • Notions of civilisation

agriculture
nomadism
civilisation / mathematics

  • traffic of merchandise / people

containers movements

flight traffic
travel


  • traffic of data

data as currency
data centres energy expense

data farms creating microclimates
underneath the visible
making trade visible

  • threats

nuclear plants

  • methods 

science collaboration
science - designers
continuing research from previous years
atmosphere
powers of ten

heaven and earth
exploration of deep seas

  • objectives/questions

make outcome graspable
urgency
time pressure
what is the cost of living a quiet life?




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)