TROPICAL PLAYGROUNDs

November Tue 17rd - Thur 19th 2009 | sign-up until November 13th 2009 ZUGÄNGLICH FÜR STUDIERENDE ALLER ÖSTERREICHISCHEN UNIVERSITÄTEN

by CLAUDIA PASQUERO, ecoLogicStudio/ London
www.ecologicstudio.com

Outline 
When the matter of architecture is freed from the essentialist conception that considers it as a formless entity regulated by transcendental geometric rules, forms and proportions, it suddenly acquires potential of self-organization and becomes generative. In this state matter can go far beyond the resolution of structural or constructive problems as it provides models for dealing with the complex feedbacks that occur between multiple (and often contrasting) forces, like the ones operating in dense urban contexts.
The workshop seeks to breed these models by developing 1:1 scale material organizations that operate as analogues computers subjected to specific sets of structural and organizational principles, programmatic regimes and urban stress fields. We will look more into detail at the how specific “architectural machines” can generate “playfulness”; we will define the nature of playfulness in relationship to specific urban environmental stresses and design “playgrounds” capable of turning passive acceptance of urban pressures into novel opportunities of engagement and exchange; within this paradigm communication can evolve in time and give rise to novelty or, in linguistic terms, to a conversation, and, in our terms, to playfulness. 

Required Skills 
students should have basic fabrication and drafting skills. computer modelling skills are strongly encouraged. 

Location 
Kunstuniversität Linz / Hauptplatz 8, Aula

sign-up 
until november 13th 2009 at sandrine.klot@ufg.ac.at  

flyer.pdf
www.strategies-research.ufg.ac.at