RE 15-17 APRIL RESEARCH
14-15 MAY CONCEPTUAL
9-11 JUNE PROTOTYPING
GENERATION SERIES OF INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS & RESEARCH PROJECTS
ORGANISERS
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CONTENTS 04 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS & RESEARCH PROJECTS 08 STAGE ONE: 15-17 APRIL – RESEARCH 12 STAGE TWO: 14-15 MAY – CONCEPTUAL 14 STAGE THREE: 9-11 JUNE – PROTOTYPING
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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS & RESEARCH PROJECTS We are happy to announce REGENERATION as the theme of the set of the WORKSHOPS.
REGENERATION Industrial areas become unique venues for art and creative audience. It is a concept of another approach to work and to rest, a place where people can work, find inspiration, implement all ideas.. GENERATE MEANS TO GIVE A NEW LIFE In Kiev there is continues development of industrial zones and old buildings: Vidubichi plant, Closer which has returned to life. Art-zavod Platforma is an example of the gentrification of Darnicky Silk Factory. Which was built in the 1950s, but in the mid-1990s, has stopped its work. More than thirty buildings were unused. But six years ago the owners had decided to create out of this place cluster or market following the example of the London borough market. The process has started and some of the spaces had been transformed, at the same time, there is still plenty of space to recreate.
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CASE: ART ZAVOD PLATFORMA THEME: UNUSED SCAPE AIM: ACTIVATION OF THE SPACE These 3 steps WORKSHOP & RESEARCH is going to face questions: - What are the possibilities for producing public space, generating the place of dialogue and interaction? - CAN we design, prototype and implement a real active space in a frame of three workshops? - Will it become an infrastructure for future events? - How can we use production waste to create objects which will give a life to a space? - Will this project bring together students and professionals from across borders and connects the public with the designer community? We have the opportunity to build projects, on the site in ART ZAVOD PLATFORMA. We are looking for architecture, designer, art students or graduate, who feel inspired by giving life to unused spaces.
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WHY SHOULD I APPLY? - A chance to work with internationally acclaimed professionals, academics, who will be leading the teams. - Three workshops will be held, this event is only the first stage and those participants who will take part in all three workshops will be able to complete their projects - A real teamwork, where your design skills will be challenged and tested - The projects will be published in local and international publications. - Work equipment and infrastructure for your team during the workshop. - High professional standards giving you an extraordinary project to your portfolio and improving your professional skills. - Workshop and a social experience you’ll never forget!
WHAT ABOUT THE TEAM? All the projects will be realised by groups of approximately 8 people. Besides mentors every team will have a workshop leader who is responsible for the concept and makes sure everything goes the way it was planned. For the leader is important to participate in all three workshops. For the rest of the participants is advised but not obligatory. The teams could be slightly re-formed from workshop to workshop.
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HOW TO APPLY? 1) Fill in the form: https://goo.gl/29XwoS 2) Find or create and send 3 visuals (photo| drawing | picture | video | animation) to illustrate the topic of workshops to the email: stud.canactions@gmail.com
DEADLINE FOR THE STAGE ONE: 5th APRIL The rest who apply after the deadline will be in the waiting list. THE LIST OF THE PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON 11TH OF APRIL. If you would like to participate in all the workshops please indicate this fact in the application. In this case, you would not have to apply for each workshop separately.
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STAGE ONE:
15-17 APRIL RESEARCH FROM UNUSED SPACE TO “THE CONTEMPORARY SQUARE” The workshop will investigate on the “strategies of the void”, in order to imagine the agoràs of today: what are the possibilities for producing public space, generating the place of dialogue and interaction in the democratic and plural domain of the city. What are the types of intervention this space could host, the utopias it can contain, the ways it can be reloaded in its relevance… how to intensify the character of a place, how to make it lively it through activities, how to embed special narratives in a sort of 0-degree architecture played by programs and devices.
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DAY 1 SITE ___mapping the unused space. Students decided in groups will have to explore and portray the spaces through all the possible means, of photography, drawing, measuring, sketching diagrams, text, collecting objects and materials.
DAY 2 EXPORT___survey on local practices. An in depth-focus on uses and actions that are typical of the Ukrainian society or a common habit in the city of Kiev: activities to embrace, develop and expand. IMPORT___navigating the global activity reservoir. The same operation is projected on global scenery. Detect activities and programs occurring in the outdoor-realm that are interesting and worth of import to the Ukrainian urban condition, and eventually to the project site itself.
DAY 3 WRAP UP___collecting the pieces and combining ideas. The different studies are put together in a final presentation which is aiming at addressing different possible scenarios, to become events or future manifestations in Art Zavod Platforma spaces. The result must be a presentation to contain all the material the produced such as diagrams, collage, pictures, drawings, and small models.
OUTCOMES AN IMPORT-EXPORT strategies on how to intensify the character of a place, how to activate it through programs, how to embed special narratives in this sort of grade-0 architecture. A proposed intervention (a specific design) for the particular space on the territory of ART ZAVOD PLATFORMA. Thanks to Istituto Italiano di Cultura Kiev the participation for the first workshop is FREE based on the motivation of the applicants.
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TUTOR ARCH. ALESSIO VALMORI Architect and urban planner, he is a founding partner of de Gayardon Bureau, an international design office for architecture, landscape and cities, currently based in Italy. His professional experience has mainly developed in Denmark, where he resides from 2009 to 2013, working for several international practices. In 2013 he is at COBE, in 2010, he works for BIG (Copenhagen), and in 2009 he works at Transform (Aahurs). He achieves a Master degree in Architecture from the University of Florence in 2012, with a thesis in History and Urban Theory on the evolution of the tourist town of Milano Marittima. The thesis book wins the prize studies Gino Pilandri 2013 in the city of Cervia, and becomes the initial body of work for the research on italian tourism that takes the Bureau to the 2014 Venice Biennale curated by Rem Koolhaas within the framework of Monditalia - the current state of Italy. He is currently teaching Art Semiotics at IED Istituto Europeo di Design in Florence.
The Bureau is an office for architecture, landscape and cities, currently based in Italy. We operate as a collective intelligence within the threshold between project and research: here the pooling of skills aims to the most simple result, through a rigorous creative and rational process. We believe real and powerful design lies at the point where naiviete and magic meet rationalism, research, and experimentation.
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STAGE TWO
14-15 MAY – CONCEPTUAL CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF THE SPACES AND OBJECTS “MAPPING THE POSSIBILITIES, NURTURING POTENTIAL, UNLEASHING CREATIVE GENIUS ON FAR MORE THAN MERE AESTHETICS" During the workshop we will finalise the research of the unused spaces, which has been made during the first workshop. After what, we will take the next step, to create conceptual designs for the spaces.
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DAY 1 Analyse the results of the first workshop, discuss and get different perspectives, consider many alternatives - “To get a good idea, get lots of ideas”
DAY 2 Selecting best concepts and fitting them in to the actual situations. Developing concepts: drawings, mockups, basic models. At the end each team will present concepts.
OUTCOMES Most promising conceptual designs, mockups, models FEE FOR THE MATERIALS AND TOOLS: 600 UAH/ 20 EUR
TUTORS CANactions + Zotov & Co CANactions is an international platform for communication and cooperation between people and institutions with different professional backgrounds which are focused on providing positive changes in existing cities by dealing with the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of contemporary world. The Bureau ‘Zotov & Co’ is oriented to the world contemporary architecture practice. Respected- research, responsibility, simplicity. The subject of design – the process. The main principle- reduce unnecessary. In favor rules and simplicity.
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STAGE THREE
9-11 JUNE – PROTOTYPING UPCYCLING During the third workshop we will bring to life the concepts, which we have developed before. Workshop is focused on a research of the solutions out of limited resources, use of the production waste and unused materials. The main task for the participants is the awareness of the decisions based on the existing research: Do we follow the objective conditions of the environment? If the selected approach is suitable in a particular situation? What do stakeholders expect from our work? These data are the basis of successful physical expression of social demand on the transformation of the urban environment.
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DAY 1 Analyzing concepts from the previous workshops, collecting needed materials.
DAY 2 Prototyping
DAY 3 Finishing up, set up the space, presentations
OUTCOMES Let’s try to find out if tomorrow’s REGENERATION will be about design thinking, space making, and re-use. FEE FOR THE MATERIALS AND TOOLS: 800 UAH/ 27 EUR.
TUTORS CULLMANN WORKSHOP Cullmann Workshop team implements projects based on the social needs of the civil society. Objective: To arrange a dialogue between city and people, in the form of urban workshops. You get to experience the realisation of your ideas in a practical and efficient facility, aimed at harmonisation of the urban environment, creating objects around you.
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