PARK IN A DAY/ PARKING DAY
Workshop
Utzon Center Febr 28th - March 8th.
Space and Stages in the Experience City - Installation Technology & Design 1
Prof. Hans Kiib and Prof. Gitte Marling, AAU
29 students from Art and Technology, 2nd semester 2011, Aalborg University
Welcome to all visitors in the Utzon Center You may listen to the lectures and Pin-Up sections, and you can ask questions at any other time.
Please enjoy.
Literature:
Hans Kiib: 2011, Anatomy of Urban Space (PDF) Line Bruun Jespersen: Socially Modified Benches in Hans Kiib, Performative Urban design, 2011 Dorthe Skot-Hansen: New Stages – New experiences , in Hans Kiib, Performative Urban design, 2011 Gitte Marling (2007): Why leave the city on holidays? Article in: Marling & Zerlang: Fun City. Arkitektens Forlag. Copenhagen (pdf) ‘At opleve arkitektur’ (pdf) ‘Lysprojekter 2010’ (pdf) Maarten Haajer & Arnold Reindorp, (2001): In Search of New Public Domains. NAi. Rotterdam. (Architegn)
Purpose and goals
The course /workshop introduces the students to the overall understanding of urban spaces as “public domain”. The objective is to give the student theoretical knowledge and skills in relation to the design of different kinds of public domain in the city. A special focus is put on the role of art in urban spaces. Furthermore the propose is to give the student a toolbox of methods for mapping and analysis of urban architectural spaces and the integrated transition of art and space into an “experience-scape”.
Starting from the semester theme ’EmotionScapes – Space & Technology’ this Sub-module will take its starting point in the transformation of Aalborg into an open minded city with a range of inviting public spaces based on a variation of programs providing all citizens (dwellers, commuters, visitors, old and young, male and female, immigrants and natives) interesting, provoking or unexpected experiences.
The stating point of the module is to ask the seemingly simple questions:
• Is it possible to transform an ordinary parking place for a couple of hours in such a way that it constructs a new urban situation?
• Can an art parking-place-installation transform the experience of the place?
• Can an instant installation give new meaning to the urban space /car park?
• And can it hold a role as catalyst for new human interactions – creating new public domains for a couple of hours?
During the workshop the students will be working with 12 different parking places in the same amount of car parks in Aalborg coming up with suggestions for a transformation of the lot to an ‘urban mini park’. The goal is to create connections between the parking place, and the urban space / car park it is located.
Furthermore the goal is to start a process of transforming boring transit areas or ‘non-places’ into places for human interactions, fun and play. The art installations shall challenge the human senses, feelings and individual reflections and create places with identity and new meaning.
Monday 28.02.11: UTZON CENTER
9:00-10:00: Establishing the studio
10:00-10:30: Introduction and program v/ HK &GM
10:30-12:00: Lecture: Gestaltning urban spaces v/ HK
12:00-12:30: Lunch
12:30-13:30: Buy cardboard and other materials for the models at Architegn, Gammeltorv 6
13:30-17:00: Assignment: Architectural analyses of the urban space Building a physical model of car park 1:200 Tuesday 01.03.11: UTZON CENTER
9:00-10.00: Pin up: presentation of students work (maps & pictures) Presentation of the selected parking places
10:00-11:30: Lecture: In search of new public domains v/ GM
11:30-15.00: Lunch & assignment: The plot: potentials for public domain, goals for transformation & strategies.
15:00-16:00: Lecture: Art & urban design – projects V/GM – Discussion
16.00- Assignment: Building physical model of car park 1:200 (continued) Thursday 03.03.11: UTZON CENTER
9:00-10:30: Pin up: presentation of students work (analyses & model)
10:30-12:00: Workshop I: PARK IN A DAY/PARKING DAY v/ GM & HK 12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-14:30: Workshop II: Interaction between P- place & urban space. Interaction between the installation & humans
14:30-16:00: Workshop III: Double up of constructed situations
16:00- Assignment: Building a physical model of the parking place 1:20 Monday 07.03.11: UTZON CENTER 9:00-10:30 Pin up: presentation of students work: diagrams
10:30- Assignment: create concept for installation Tuesday 08.03.11: UTZON CENTER
9:00-12.30: Assignment: create concept for installation; Finishing materials for submission
12.30-13.00: Lunch
13:00-16.00: Final pin up: presentation of students work / each group Discussion and evaluation of the course /workshop
Submission
The result of the sup-module /workshop has to be submitted as • two models for the Utzon Center Exhibition • a separate section in the final group report Two models for the exhibition at Utzon Center:
1. a model for the urban space/ car park, scale 1:200 2. a model of the parking place with the new interventions, scale 1:20
12 slides for the section in the group report These slides are presenting the artefact including a short text describing the analysis, the idea, the goal for the redesign, the concept, and reflection:
Slide 1: The selected parking place and the architectural context (Photos, map, text); Slide 2: Analysis of spatial form (car park) (2D plan, diagram, text); Slide 3: Analysis of orientation (car park) (sections, drawing on photos, series of photos); Slide 4: Analysis of linkage of spaces (diagrams) Slide 5-7: Presentation of the catalyst: ideas for the artefact used as catalyst for transformation of the urban space and human interaction (drawings on photos of model & diagrams) Slide 8: Presentation of the catalyst in the spatial context (plan, photomontage, text) Slide 9: From workshop: Interaction between P- place & urban space; Interaction between the installation & humans (diagrams) Slide 10: From workshop: Double up of constructed situations (stripe – row of drawings or diagrams) Slide 11-12: Presentation of the art installation in drawings, photo collage etc. including photos of models.
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