Minimou L an d of S t u b l ime n e ss
Guided Tour by Ariadna Barthe & Antoine Vaxelaire
AA Summer School 3-21 July 2017
Unit 1 Minimou
A STUPLIME LAND MADE OF FRAMES AND THREADS Constructing a new ground in which the NOW will be reveal in its most crude and honest appearences.
The Average Face
Super Symetry
Arty Land
Destructive Calibration
The construction of Minimou starts with the fundamental idea that architectural culture can only exist as the complex interweaving of multiple inputs. Minimou will take this reality litterally and weave a carpet during three weeks. Politics. Economics. Society. Cultural. Meta Physical. Anthropological. We have reach a point in our western culture where the still image seems obsolete; it doesn’t render the complexities of our lives nor does it full-fill our daily need for drama. From news to art pieces, the video format is gaining a very wide audience, forcing all of us to learn new codes of understanding. Minimou proposes to impose this technique upon architecture and push the moving frame paradigm to extremes. What if architects became experts in generalities? What would that mean for the form of our production? Could it still be limited to “buildings” and “cities”? Can one define the culture of the Now through tools that have existed for centuries?
Death of Death
Threads 4 Ever
Tip of the Iceberg
Softness
Minimou Co n st r u c ting Stub l imen e ss
Every student is like a thread in a carpet; both indispensable and invisible. The Still image is as Dead as is Architecture; Time for the Video to Swamp our Lands
AA Summer School 3-21 July 2017
Unit 1 Minimou
STUPIDLY BELIEVING THAT SUBLIMENESS IS IN THE PALM OF OUR HANDS Minimou is nothing else than an endlessly moving Land exposing an absolute Now.
Invisible Infrastructure
Mise-en-Urbanite
INTERCONNECTED
EFFECTIVENESS
CAR P E T
VIDEO
Networking Beyond Facebook
Reality Beyond Thruth
What: Weaving your darkest obsessions of today’s world we will thread a large scale CarpetScape that will ultimetely expose what the Now might actually look like.
What: Your videos will simultaneously record and expose your daily realities. During three weeks, they will give the tempo to our CarpetScape, feeding it with Stupid Truths and Sublime Realities.
How: During the three weeks, the Unit will collaboratively built the CarpetScape. Every day, each student will insert a new thread.
How: Everyday, each student will wonder the streets of London in search of his/her Urban self. The recorded material will be edited and assemble to support the students’ obsessions.
THE UNIT FINAL PRODUCT
MIN IM OU Land of Stublimeness
During a three-week period, we will collectively work towards a common land of the Now. All your individual work will be inseparable from the rest of the unit and will reach its full potential once placed within the large Land of Stublimeness: Minimou.
Minimou S t u b l i m e Te a m
a.k.a A ntoine Vaxel aire
a .k .a A r i a d n a Ba r t h e
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Brussels, BE, 1986 Antoine first studied architecture in Lausanne before moving to London to join the Architectural Association, where he graduated with Honours in 2013. During his studies he has worked in several of ces in Zurich, London and Brussels. After graduating Antoine moved to Tokyo and Mexico City, where he respectively worked two and one years.
Barcelona, ES, 1985 Ariadna first graduated from Interior Design in 2009 (EINA, Barcelona), to then work as an Art Director for advertising, cinema and music videos. In 2009, Ariadna joined the AA School, where she graduated in 2014. After that she joined Foster and Partners, where she has worked on a wide range of projects, both in London and Mexico City.
In 2016 Ariadna Barthe and Antoine Vaxelaire founded TOI T, a Creative Consultancy. TOI T is a Messy and Noisy multidisciplinary practice that aims at re-inserting creativity in all disciplines of our society. Strongly believing that there is an enormous gap between the people with the resources to act and those with the ideas to create, TOI T is the bridge between these distant sides. Trained as architects, Ariadna and Antoine put architectural knowledge at the core of the office. The understanding of our built environment is the biggest challenge of the decades to come, and architects have a long tradition of both constructing it and understanding its potential. TOI T believes this knowledge cannot remain in the hands of architects, but should be implemented to all disciplines of today and tomorrow. As good Europeans, Ariadna and Antoine work and live between Barcelona, London and Bruxelles; where they are implementing their ideas through various projects and teaching in several programs.
AA Summer School 3-21 July 2017
Unit 1 Minimou
Schedule 3-2 1 J u ly
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WEEK 0 1
Mo nda y 3
Tu e s d a y
We d n e s d a y
Th u r s d ay
Unit Guest 1 Weaving Workshop
Unit Guest 2 Editing Workshop
Unit Guest 2 Editing Workshop
Unit Guest 2 Editing Workshop
Unit Guest 2 Editing Workshop
Suggested Visit Broadway Market
Weaving Session and Drinks!
Suggested Show Salder Wells´s
10.00 am
Introduction + Unit Presentations
UNIT KICK-OFF Secret Location
2.00 pm
Unit Selections + 1st Unit Meeting
Unit Space Introduction
MasterClass 1 CARPET
Team Presentation
Tutorials Unit Space
Space Set Up
20.00 pm
Drinks!
Unit Dinner
Weaving Session
Weaving Session
F r i d ay
S at u rd ay
S u n d ay Suggested Visit White Cube Gallery
Suggested Meal Maltby St, Bar Tozino
WEEK 0 2 M onda y 10.00 am
Work Session
Tu e s d a y INTERMEDIATE JURY
We d n e s d a y Post-Jury Discussion
Th u r s d ay MasterClass 2 VIDEO
F r i d ay Tutorials Unit Space
S at u rd ay
S u n d ay
Suggested Visit Speakers’ Corner
Tutorials Unit Space
2.00 pm
20.00 pm
Pre-Jury Rehearsal
INTERMEDIATE JURY
Jury Set Up
Weaving Session and Drinks!
Field Trip
Weaving Session
Work Session
Weaving Session
Summer School BBQ
Suggested Meal St. John 26 St John St
Weaving Session and Drinks!
WEEK 0 3 M onda y
Tu e s d a y
We d n e s d a y
Th u r s d ay
F r i d ay 2 1
10.00 am
Tutorials Unit Space
Work Session
Work Session
Editing Session
FINAL JURY
2.00 pm
Work Session
Work Session
Editing Session
Editing Session
FINAL JURY
Weaving Session
Weaving Session
Weaving Session
Weaving Session
End Party!!
20.00 pm
S at u rd ay
S u n d ay