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Interdisciplinary DDE Praxismodul 2018 – Climate Change in Switzerland

Brief

The Latin word "habére" (to have, or to "hold"), highlights and addresses 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.


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

Deliverables:

  • Photos, Recordings
  • Instagram Account
  • Booklet to lay out for final day


Timetable:
Availability of Lecturers in brackets []

week 1 KW13
Monday, 26.03.2018                    symposium at Kunstraum                                    [C] [J?]
Tuesday, 27.03.2018                   Making-Workshop at Aktionsraum                       [C] [Joseph Popper?] 
Wednesday, 28.03.2018              project work                                                         [C]   > Task develop story draft/ plot 
Thursday, 29.03.2018                  Easter Holiday  
Friday, 30.03.2018                       Easter Holiday

week 2 KW14
Tuesday, 03.04.2018                    Presentations of first Plots                                 [C] [A]
                                                     Workshop with Characters and Keywords       
Wednesday, 04.04.2018               9-11 walk around & project work                       [C] [A] 
Thursday, 05.04.2018                   9-11 walk around & project work                       [C] [A]   
Friday, 06.04.2018                        9-11 walk around & project work                       [C] [A]

week 3 KW15
Tuesday, 10.04.2018                   11-13 walk around & project work                     [C] [A]
Wednesday, 11.04.2018              9-11 walk around & final filming                         [C] [A] 
Thursday, 12.04.2018                  9-11 Pre-presentations at Aktionsraum             [C] [J?] [A] [ev. guest MA student]
                                                    12-14 photographs with us art directing
                                                    15-18 dismantle 
Friday, 13.04.2018                       Final Private Preview 9-13                                [C] [A] 
                                                    Get the brief for final documentation                


week 4 KW16
Tuesday, 17.04.2018                    15 -16 Discuss deliverables internally & remind to students       [C] [A] 
Wednesday, 18.04.2018               9 - 13 Postproduction (Print for public presentations)                 [C] [A] 
Thursday, 19.04.2018                   preparing presentations                               
Friday, 20.04.2018                        final exhibition at Kunstraum                            [C] [A]


(Involvement: Antonio 5.5 days, Clemens 5.5 days, Joelle 4 days)

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)


- [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 Planks

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


- [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? 

White board, flip chart, beamer projector we take from the seminar room and the lab

- Anything else ???















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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)