WORKSHOP Back to life

BACK TO LIFE SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

5th-15th september 2016 blanca murcia, spain

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how to reach blanca accomModation the territory HISTORY OF BLANCA POINTS OF INTEREST IN THE CITY AADK SPAIN PROGRAM day 1 day 2 day 3 day 4 dURING THE EVENINGS PART OF DAY 6 daYS 5-10 100Landschaftsarchitektur enrique nieto tutors contacts

how to reach blanca

Blanca is a small town huddling at the foot of Peña Negra… but how to reach it?

Alicante is the biggest city close to Blanca served by an international airport.

From there you can reach Murcia and Blanca by bus.

Bus and train companies like Alsa and Renfe connect easily Barcelona, Madrid and the other spanish cities to Murcia and Blanca.

If you need any further information don´t hesitate to contact us writing at workshops@aadk.es.

The meeting point for all the participants is at AADK travel space, at the following address: CENTRO NEGRA CALLE DEL CASTILLO, 30 30540 BLANCA MURCIA

42

ABCE

BLANCA - ARCHENA - MURCIA

Trayecto completo 42 A: MURCIA - BLANCA, por Lorquí, Archena y Ojós.

42 B: MURCIA - RICOTE, por Lorquí, Archena y Ojós.

42 C: MURCIA - ULEA, por Archena.

42 E: MURCIA - BALNEARIO DE ARCHENA.

Prospect plan of the bus LINE 42 A: MURCIA - BLANCA, the online timetable can be consulted at http://www.latbus.com/linea.asp?requiredlin=42&dira=2 The Centro Negra meeting point is located at 3 minutes walk from La Fuente bus stop in Blanca.

BLANCA 42 A

La Fuente Buyla

ULEA 42 C

RICOTE

Ulea

Ricote

42 B

VILLANUEVA DEL RIO SEGURA OJÓS

Villanueva del Segura

Ojós

42 E

El Arco Cementerio

Balneario de Archena

ARCHENA 42 A-C-E

42 A-B-C

Empalme Archena

Espera!co

Archena

La Algaida

ALGAIDA

42 C-E

Cementerio

LORQUÍ

MOLINA DE SEGURA Est. autobuses Molina de Segura

Llano de Molina

LLANO DE MOLINA 42 A-B-C Puente del Complejo Complejo

CAMPUS DE ESPINARDO

CajaMurcia

ESPINARDO Recorrido común de todos los trayectos de la línea Recorrido de trayecto concreto

Carrefour Zaraiche

MURCIA Est. autobuses

Parada de referencia

42 A-B-C-E

Núcleo de población Inicio / !n de la línea

OCT/2015

Google Maps

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Bus stop La Fuente Centro Negra

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100 m

accomModation http://www.casadelahiguera.com/ Características de cada una de las casas: 4 ó 5 plazas.

2 habitaciones.

Salón-comedor con aire acondicionado, chimenea de leña y televisión.

Cocina con vitrocerámica y frigorífico.

Cuarto de baño.

Mesa exterior con bancos, a la sombra de los árboles.

Las casas se alquilan con menaje de cocina, ropa de cama y toallas.

Características de los espacios comunes: Salón social con televisión vía satélite, chimenea de leña, futbolín, juegos de mesa y máquina de refrescos.

Piscina.

Barbacoas.

Horno de leña.

Parque infantil con columpios y tobogán.

Zonas ajardinadas con bancos para sentarse.

Servicios: Alquiler de bicicletas.

Venta de leña.

THE TERRITORY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gICGduW7Rpc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H1eAhH7MS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vlHZnjitEc

HISTORY OF BLANCA

The population existed before the Muslim era, during the independent maritime state of Cartagena. In fact, to protect and fortify the port and the inlands, some of the best masons in Europe were sent to build and create communities by the fortifications and bridges under construction. Blanca is in fact one of the rare area where wounded soldiers, orphans and widows could find a refuge, no matter their religion or nation. This humanitarian sanctuary was then confirmed by the Vatican.

We have to go to the year 713, with the arrival of the Arab conquest, for finding permanent human presence in the town of Blanca. The first testimony brings us the remainder of its castle, dating from the twelfth century. In the thirteenth century, it was known by the name of “Negra”, apparently because of the color of the black mountain near to the castle and population center. This castle was built between 1155 and 1171 by the first King of Murcia, Muhammad ibn Mardanis, known as the “Wolf King”. The historical connection to form part of the Moorish Ricote Valley was found in 1228, during the insurrection led by Ibn Hud as from Ricote against the Almohads. However, after his death, ten years later, anarchy and lawlessness propagated in the Kingdom of Murcia, causing the Alcaraz Pact signed with Castile in 1243, which required the submission to the Crown as a protectorate. Respecting and guaranteeing the possessions, and Muslim traditions in change of vassalage to the Castilian king. Once Alfonso X on the Castilian throne and after breaking some clauses of the Treaty, the Mudéjar population revolts, between 1264 and 1266.

After suffocating the revolution, Alfonso X gave the Ricote Valley population the Jurisdiction of the city of Murcia, being so included in the territory of the city. With the death of the eldest son and Castilian heir, Fernando de la Cerda, the struggle began for the succession to the throne of Castile. The struggle was between Fernando’s sons, the infants de la Cerda, and his uncle, son of Alfonso X, the Infante Don Sancho.

Future Sancho IV, promised, in a document dated March 25, 1281, to reward the Order of Santiago by donating the Ricote Valley, including Negra (Blanca), if they help him in his struggle for the crown. When being proclaimed king in Seville November 19, 1285, Sancho IV fulfills his commitment and gave to the Order of Santiago the Ricote Valley, their neighbourhoods, villages and places, for the support provided .

Peace did not last many years in the Ricote Valley because James II of Aragón invaded the Kingdom of Murcia, in 1296, to reward himself for the help given to the other party, i.e.| the Infants de la Cerda, in the struggle for succession of the throne against his uncle. During this occupation, Negra and its castle were given to the counselor Bernardo de Sarria, although the santiaguista commander of Ricote claimed to replace them to John Osores on 19 September 1303. The last time the name of Negra is stated in a document is in the year 1315. The change of the name Negra to Blanca probably took place between the years 1353 and 1362 by the influence of Dona Blanca de Borbón, Queen of Castile, who was abandoned

by King Pedro I and defended by Fadrique, Master of the Order of Santiago, and by Sancho Sanchez de Moscoso, the santiaguista commander of Ricote (2). Years later, precisely in 1382, Blanca appeared for the first time under the name of Blanca. The Advancer (Counselor) of the Kingdom of Murcia, Martin Alonso de Valdivieso, required the freedom of a Moor from Blanca, who was captured upon request of a Jew of Elche. (3). Unfair events could not stop the war instability in the middle decades of the fifteenth century.

It caused the abandonment of Blanca’s people marching with the troops of the King of Granada after a foray into the Kingdom of Murcia. Thereafter, after demanding tax benefits, Blanca’s people returned. After

the bloody sack of Cieza in 1477, leaving the villages depopulated, the inhabitants of Blanca again left their village. They returned again in 1492 after the conquest of the Kingdom of Granada. The domain of the Order of Santiago on Blanca and the rest of the Ricote Valley would be extended until the nineteenth century. In order to improve the performance of their lands, in the early years of this domain, the Order convinced to convert to Christianity the Mohammedans of Blanca before the new law in 1501. In this way, they were now called new Christians. The Mohammedans converted after the new law in 1501 were called Moors. Some years thereafter, in 1507, the Catholic Monarchs gave instructions to build churches on the old mosques (4). The Muslim population hoped, with this conversion to Christianity, to get rid of the fiscal pressures to which they were subject all the time. However, their frustration was great seeing that this was not the case, and this provoked a violent uprising of the Moorish population throughout the Valley in 1517.

This rebellion was suppressed and repressed a year later.

Throughout the sixteenth century, Blanca experienced a significant increase in the population of the village. Philip II, always lacking money due to his wars, arranged a new strategy for obtaining money: that one of creating municipalities. Consequently, Blanca got on August 10, 1591 from Philip II the privilege of the municipality at the cost of 2400 ducats. The expulsion of the new Christians of the Ricote Valley - now suddenly called Moriscoes - decreed in 1613 by Philip III left in ruin the lands of Blanca. Blanca left only with a population of 300 people (5), due to the forced exodus of its inhabitants. However, 10– 15 years after 45% of its inhabitants returned to their lands (6). Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra wrote at length about the Moorish Ricote Valley through the figure of Morisco Ricote (7). Many authors thought the Morisco Ricote came from Esquivias or Albacete, but Govert Westerveld, one of the two chroniclers of the town proved that the Morisco Ricote came from the Ricote Valley (8) as confirmed in 2010 by Professor Francisco Márquez Villanueva (9). Back in the Golden Century of Murcia, eighteenth century, Blanca began to recover its loss of the population, moving from 700 inhabitants in 1713 to 1378 in 1786, according to the Census Floridablanca. The present church dedicated to St. John the Evangelist was rebuilt at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century by the stonecutter brothers Lucas and Antonio de la Lastra. The building was finished in the year 1717.

After the War of Independence (1808-1814), Blanca’s privilege was ratified by King Ferdinand VII in 1819.

Nine years later, the Kingdom of Murcia is hit by an epidemic of yellow fever, and Blanca was elected by the Chapter of the Cathedral of Murcia as a refuge from the disease, and through the intercession of St. Roch the fever did not reach Blanca, according to tradition. St. Roch was named as the pattern of Blanca seeing the results of praying of the inhabitants from Blanca to him. Freed from the control by the Order of Santiago, in 1851, and after the revolutionary events and the restoration of the monarchy of Cánovas del Castillo in Alfonso XII, Blanca faces the entrance of the new century, better prepared than some of the surrounding municipalities. In 1856, the inhabitants arranged the building of a new bridge over the River Segura. In 1869, a rural road was finished to connect the city with the railway station. In 1894 public lighting was installed. Also in 1894, Blanca suffered several collapses from the hillsides being destroyed several buildings, including a home-hospital and shelter for the poor. The result was a complete change of the landscapes which motivated the construction of new houses and streets. During the twentieth

century, the turbulent political and social periods were lived in the town with regularity as the rest of the region. Proclaimed the Second Republic in the 1931 elections, the conservative parties, grouped in the Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rights (CEDA), won the elections. The response of the left parties was an immediate development of the organization of trade unions and social organizations which in 1934 proclaimed a general strike in Murcia, with violent demonstrations in many locations. The neighboring Cieza had to declare a state of war, and there were several deaths in Alguazas. The 1936 elections, which were won by a coalition of leftist parties called “The Popular Front”, returned to cause violent altercations throughout the Region. This heralded the civil conflict that ended with the rise by a part of the army on 17 July of the same year. As in the rest of the country during these years there were isolated social crisis. However, when it was the case then the most noticeable awareness was reflected in the attacks on convents and churches, such as the convent of “La Milagrosa” and the Parish of Blanca’s church “San Juan Evangelista”. As a result of this violence, Blanca missed a significant number of religious art, especially in religious imagery (saved from the same attacks one of the most prestigious and appreciated image of the “Christ tied to the column” of a Salzillo style and authorship of Sanchez Tapia).

Despite remaining at the side of the Republic, the region of Murcia remained far from the front lines because there was little military action, except sporadic bombing ports of Cartagena and Águilas. In March 1939, the national side’s troops occupied the city along with the rest of the region. From a demographic standpoint, the twentieth century has been a time of stagnation for Blanca. A century earlier it had 6,000 inhabitants, which same figure remains in the twenty-first century. Today, immigration is essential to maintain and increase this number. This is not surprising because the economy of the municipality at the beginning of the century was based on agriculture, esparto (10) and the sale of timber, what gradually disappeared with the advent of synthetic fibers. These circumstances and the closure of cannery industries and the abandonment of logging forced the emigration of many local residents to other places. Only agriculture, currently devoted to fruit and grapes, received a significant boost with the waters of the TajoSegura. However, Blanca’s inhabitants do not surrender to adversity and fight together to face future times in a remarkable effort to develop their city.

points of interest in THE CITY

Right in the heart of the Ricote Valley, on the banks of the River Segura, lies Blanca, known to our ancestors as La Negra or “The Black”, due to the colour of the mountain where it lies. The castle which reigns over the town was built by the Moslems in the twelfth century; before it lies the valley in all its splendour. It can be reached by setting out from the old quarter where the traveller can get to know the ancient mediaeval layout of the town and, at the same time, the warmth of its people. Outstanding among its buildings are the Church of St. John the Evangelist, from the sixteenth century; the Hermitage of Saint Roque with its Baroque style; the Favorita (“Favourite”) House, built in an eclectic style during the nineteenth century; the Count’s house, a faithful example of nineteenth century neoclassicism, now turned into the Hostería Conde de la Vallesa; and last, but not least, the Victoria Theatre, which has recently reopened its doors after a period of restoration. The Fundación Pedro Cano -Pedro Cano Foundation- is a must: its location is great, since it is in an extraordinary building on the bank of the River Segura; it houses some of the best works of Pedro Cano, the artist from Blanca. In addition, it has temporary exhibition rooms, workshop rooms, a library and an auditorium. The Centro de Interpretación de la Luz y el Agua is also very interesting for the visitor, since it shows the ways of exploitation of water through history in this locality. Blanca, where natural beauty and historical tradition meet to offer the traveller the chance to enjoy an adventurous type of tourism which includes a descent of the River Segura, hiking and pony trekking among others.

MUCAB - Pedro Cano Foundation-

AADK SPAIN

Aktuelle Architektur der Kultur, AADK (2008), began as a platform and collaboration between artists Jochen Arbeit, Abraham Hurtado, Vania Rovisco, and their invited guests.

The group of artists shared a vision to create a platform that would support their ultimate needs but also uphold the essential working relations with others. AADK’s focal point has always been a keen interest in creating a network that is self-generative and accommodates others.

AADK Spain establishes a permanent space of investigation and contemporary creation in the south of Spain and chooses CENTRO NEGRA in Blanca for his attainment and development, turning this centre into a space of investigation and artistic creation with the purpose of consolidating it as a pattern in our international networks. The peculiar location of the township and his geographical and landscape’s characteristics offer the possibility of using the environment as integral part of the intervention.

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

DAY 1 - 5/09 monday While arriving the participants will join the workshop MAKERS. 13.00 Lunch workshop MAKERS and presentation of construction techniques 19.00 INTRODUCTION (PRESENTATION) - AADK, Blanca and its territory by the Centro de Interpretaciรณn de la Naturaleza Blanca, Introduction of the workshop program and of the tutors 20.00 DINNER DAY 2 - 6/09 tuesday 9.00 Breakfast MOVIE MAKING (PRESENTATION with screenings) - The camera as a tool for experiencing space 10.00 TERRITORIAL EXPLORATION: 1 hour walk along the river 11.00 MOVIE MAKING - excercise 1 / describe the area according to different topic 12.00 Meeting at the centre 13.00 LUNCH 15.00 - MOVIE MAKING - introduction to an app to cut and join videos excercise 2 / describe one chicken coop 16.00 - editing BREAK 20.00 DINNER 22.00 SCREENING DAY 3 - 7/09 wednesday 9.00 Breakfast INSTALLATIONS (PRESENTATION) 10.00 Excercise 1 13.00 LUNCH 15.00 Excercise 2 20.00 DINNER / GUEST(S) 1 from PEOPLE DAY 4 - 8/09 thuersday 9.00 Breakfast 10.00 MAPS (PRESENTATION) 11.00 Excercise 1 / Measuring space 13.00 LUNCH 15.00 Excercise 2 / Perceiving space 18.00 Collective map 20.00 DINNER

DAY 5 - 9/09 friday 9.00 Breakfast Individual presentation of one idea/image/concept - Formation of groups 13.00 LUNCH 15.00 GROUP WORK 20.00 DINNER / GUEST(S) from PEOPLE DAY 6 - 10/09 saturday 9.00 Breakfast GROUP WORK 13.00 LUNCH 15.00 PERFORMANCE excercise 20.00 DINNER 22.00 PARTY DAY 7 - 11/09 sunday 9.00 Breakfast MIDDLE PRESENTATIONS BY THE GROUPS, discussion 13.00 LUNCH 15.00 GROUP WORK 20.00 DINNER / GUEST(S) from PEOPLE DAY 8 - 12/09 monday 9.00 Breakfast GROUP WORK 13.00 LUNCH GROUP WORK 20.00 DINNER / GUEST(S) from PEOPLE DAY 9 - 13/09 tuesday 9.00 Breakfast GROUP WORK 13.00 LUNCH GROUP WORK 20.00 DINNER DAY 10 - 14/09 wednesday 9.00 Breakfast GROUP WORK 13.00 LUNCH OFFICIAL PRESENTATION AT THE MUNICIPALITY 20.00 DINNER 22.00 FINAL GREETINGS DAY 11 - 15/09 thuersday Departures

DAy 1 Makers

Construction day with Jorge Bermejo and Roberto Carrasco CaĂąizares, spanish architects.

Through a mixture of local materials and advanced techniques we will experiment and create together what we need for working and inhabiting the spaces of the abandoned chicken coops during the days of the workshop. We will discover as well the noble qualities of traditional materials that have been forgotten. A first contact with the particular features of the city of Blanca and the mountain PeĂąa Negra!

DAy 2 movie making

How can a camera help us understanding the physical and atmospherical features of a space? Through different focus on light, perspective and movement, we will create short movies using our phones and simple cameras.

The exercises will be organised by Sverre Aune, a Norwegian filmmaker based in Berlin. The films will be edited right away and a screening event will be organised by night!

DAy 3 ephemeral

Together with Pier Alessio Rizzardi of TCA Think Tank we will produce Ephemeral installations to explore the essential qualities of the space: Physical, Visual and Memory connections applied to the surrounding context of PeĂąa Negra.

During this activity we will see how ephemeral interventions, with a light touch and noninvasive operations, can be a possibility of revaluation of the urban tissue, observing the reactions and impacts on the space quality in both short and long future.

DAy 4 mapping

The ambiguity of the landscape, with its spatial heterogeneity and complexity, makes it difficult to represent it using a defined and fixed system of representational tools.

With inputs by architect Elena Ferrari and landscape architect Greta Colombo, we will explore methods and techniques that, alternating the focus between the different elements of the landscape, guide us in the process of planning possible intervention.

During the evenings: people

The inhabitants of a place are not only the bodies but the soul, the character, the atmosphere‌ Elena Azzedin will share with the participants the stories laying under the ruins.

Lots of owners are still alive, the town has strong memories of the area, and although most of them give no value to it, some still have dreams about the potential future of La PeĂąa Negra.

There is as much to improve in the area as to learn from the place biography.

PART OF DAY 6: performance

Abraham Hurtado, graduated in Performing Arts and working with several artists and companies, founded AADK Spain and currently is the Artistic Director of the platform. He visioned La PeĂąa Negra Project in Blanca as a place for future art space district to create an international encounter for artists, given a voice to a temporary community to think, research, experiment and exchange knowledge together.

The work of Abraham Hurtado explores the notions of presence and space, the multiplicity of contexts and possible arrangements of the space and how they affect the perception/reception of the body. For Back To Life will create a series of exercises based in the peripheral vision of the space, how can the body embed all the elements found in the space. By this experience will challenge the participants to address the performativity of materials in dialog with the presence of the body. In the last part will encourage the group to conceptualize performative installations using the tools and ideas from the experience of the exercises given by Abraham Hurtado. www.fakelessproject.com

DAYS 5-10 GROUP WORK

In the second part of the workshop we will work in groups on developing projects and ideas for La PeĂąa Negra, the area of study. Thilo Folkerts (www.100land. de, Berlin) and Enrique Nieto (University of Alicante, Architecture department) will help us in this process.

expertise 100Landschaftsarchitektur

100Landschaftsarchitektur has long-standing and wide experience in designing and activating public open space.

Using the concept of the ´garden´ as a working tool and understanding landscape architecture as incitement, Thilo Folkerts´ minimal interventions are able to create a well-balanced act of mobilization, where the theoretical significance and the physical qualities of the contexts are both present in an active tangible dialogue.

Focusing mainly on projects in the urban realm, the aim of 100Landschaftsarchitektur’s work is a changed perspective of place as a re-localisation of the inhabitant in his environment. Landscape design understood as a base for a ‘Baukultur’, a building culture that is founded on careful observation of the existing and a sensible development from this resource.

expertise Enrique Nieto Prof. Enrique Nieto graduated from the ETSA Madrid and received his PhD from Alicante University, where he teaches and researches since 1997 by the department of architecture planning. He is going to help us in the second part of the workshop, where we will work in groups to develop possible solutions and interventions for the Peña Negra. His main interests are “non human life and politics of caring”, applied in both building and teaching activities.

His recent work goes through the transformations of contemporary culture and its influence on the landscape of southeast Mediterranean Spain and its cultural infrastructures.

Some related projects are the Center for Contemporary Art “La Conservera” in Ceutí, with F. De Retes; the VideoArt Center “Espacio Doméstico” in Blanca, with P.A. Cruz; and the Special Protection Plan for the Historic Centre of Jumilla, with ad hoc murcia slp.

TUTORS

Sverre Aune - MOVIE MAKING Sverre Aune is a Norwegian Viking and filmmaker based in Berlin. He’s a writer, director and editor, that works within several disciplines of the medium.

Sverre has been making film since grade school, buying his first camcorder camera at the age of 11. At 16 he applied for a Media program at Trondheim Katedralskole, and started working more seriously with audio-visuals. He did odd jobs on different film-sets in his region, while experimenting and exploring the medium on the side. He studied at European Film College in Denmark and finished his Bachelor degree in Berlin. He has made documentaries, art installations and fiction films, both short length and feature length.

Among his greatest influences are the filmmakers Gaspar Noé, Pedro Almodóvar, Joachim Trier, Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman.

Elena Azzedin - PEOPLE Artist, curator and cultural manager. Graduated in Fine Arts at the Art University of Bilbao (UPV). From 2004, she combined her professional activity in the fields of art and design, with a special interest in the educational and social side of it. She began her career as an urban artist but moved from making public intervention to creating relational art.

Currently she is developing Memorias Celuloides, a project to recover, activate and update collective memories through Home Movies.

Worked at the ZK/U, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, an artist residency where she was in charge of developing a program (granted through European program Actors of Urban Change) to engage communities to take active part with their neighbourhood and specially to gain agency of the new contemporary art space ZK/U. Currently she is the Director of the Residency program of AADK (Aktuelle Architektur Der Kultur) at Centro Negra, (Blanca, Murcia, Spain) where she uses her skills as an artist, curator and cultural program developer.

Greta Colombo - LANDSCAPE www.stellepolari.weebly.com Greta Colombo is a landscape architect working between Italy and France. Her keen botanical knowledge and a strong visual art passion are mixed up with the attitude of questioning the environment with critical eyes and unconventional approaches.

During her study years in Rome, Genova,Torino and Versailles, she developed the capacities to analyse and project landscape at every scale, focusing her preference on rural context and territorial dynamics. Recently, she has been working over the evolution of the landscape in a rural productive region after the Unesco designation. Participation and synthesis of the local community issues are fundamental moments in this action.

She also intervened on gardens realization, culminating with the participation at the 24th edition of Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival.

Elena Ferrari - MAPS Elena Ferrari studied architecture and landscape architecture in Milan and in Atlanta-USA. After completing her MA at Politecnico di Milano, she started working in the historical archive of Domus magazine and later as a contributor and web editor for the magazine´s website.

During and after her studies, has worked as Teaching Assistant at Politecnico di Milano with Prof. Luigi Mario Spinelli.

Elena is based in Berlin since January 2013 and in the last years she has focused her research in landscape architecture and urbanism, working at different scales on projects and competitions in urban and rural contexts.

Abraham Hurtado - PERFORMANCES www.fakelessproject.com Performer and visual artist. He has collaborated with numerous visual artists and worked in different dance and theatre companies within Spain and internationally. In his own work he explores the notions of presence and space, the multiplicity of contexts and possible arrangements of the public as they affect directly the perception-reception of the proposals.

Abraham Hurtado, is a founder of the AADK platform in Berlin alongside Vânia Rovisco and Jochen Arbeit. The platform is a curatorial project with members and invited artists pursuing activities in the fields of performance, installation, music, literature, video art, etc. They have presented their work in over twenty-fie countries in Europe and elsewhere, including Mexico, the USA and Turkey, among others. The art they produce is specific to each member but the configuration and strategies they adopt for their presentations are developed in common with the invited artists. Since 2012, Abraham Hurtado is the Artistic Director of AADK Spain International Artistic Platform.

Lorenza Manfredi - WALKS www.lorplay.weebly.com After graduating from Politecnico di Milano in Architecture she started a Research Project by the Universität der Künste Berlin that has been supported by a DAAD scolarship.

Her research focuses on a specific phenomenon, which are artistic interventions on walls and buildings in public space of Berlin, that tells a lot about the social impact as well as cultural and political influences and relations of power in the city. Visible and invisible narratives in urban public spaces remain her main interests when observing and intervening on spaces.

During her studies she lived and worked in several cities, among them Weimar, Istanbul and Cape Town. The very different urban environments and social habits she could observe made her more and more interested in the the social dimension of public spaces. Since moving to Berlin in 2013 she develops her interests in urban studies through many different practices and techniques. Thanks to collaborations with different architectural studios and collectives, in particular with 100Landschaftsarchitektur and Urbanslow, she gained experience in planning spaces and in connecting communities, through the realization of small interventions and participation in several architectural competitions.

Drawing is another way to look at and interpret the urban landscape: Lorenza’s illustrations are inspired from all the small details that make the city life unique and exciting.

Pier Alessio Rizzardi - CONSTRUCTION www.tcathinktank.com Pier Alessio Rizzardi is an architect, curator and theoretician, founder of TCA Think Tank.

Since 2013 he’s been an Adjunct Professor at Polytechnic University of Milan, Faculty of Architecture, journalist for l’ARCA International Magazine, editor of STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism Magazine and Curator of the Series of Books “I Protagonisti”.

He was the curator of the conferenze “The Condition of Architecture: Liu Xiaodu Talks” in Polytechnic of Milan University, he hosted the Forum “Mountains Beyond Mountains” in Chinese Pavilion in Venice Biennale Fundamentals building the Parasite Pavilion in Giardini delle Vergini Arsenale.

Jorge Bermejo and Roberto Carrasco CaĂąizares, MAKERS www.fabcollective.org Jorge is Architect by the University of Alicante, graduated with Honors. Always convinced of the need for taking advantage of the old, he develops his professional career between researching about how to industrialize traditional building techniques, and as a real state agent specialized in managing and refurbishing obsolete houses with interpersonal conflicts. Confident too about the importance of the personal development, he exercises as a life coach as the same time as he trains for international open sea crossings.

Roberto studied in the Universidad de Alicante and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. After being part of the Grupo Aranea’s team, where he developed a deep understanding of landscape related to nature and society, he moved to Berlin in order to experience this facts and to be part of the everyday making landscape through art and activism. He also moved to Berlin to work in P4930. His main interests unite technical with poetical, collective with narrative, and traditional with digital.

Thilo Folkerts - LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE www.100land.de/ Born in Neuenhaus, Germany in 1967. He studied landscape architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), taught at the School of Landscape Architecture at the Université de Montréal, Canada in 2006, at the TUB in 2008/2009 and at the Academy of the Arts in Stuttgart from 2011 until 2014.

Primarily working as a designer, Thilo Folkerts, has since 1997, realized experimental works on the concept of the garden. Temporary projects were installed in Quebec, Le Havre, Lausanne, Basel, Zurich, Rome, Kortrijk, Brussels, Baruth, Frankfurt/Oder, and Berlin. In 2014 he was a fellow at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In addition to working as a landscape architect who designs, experiments and constructs, he pursues his interest in the unique language of gardens as author, editor and translator.

Thilo Folkerts founded 100Landschaftsarchitektur in Berlin in 2007. 100Landschaftsarchitektur has long-standing and wide experience in designing and activating public open space.

Next to a number of installation projects and cooperations with artists, architects and other disciplines, 100landschaftsarchitektur has a list of projects and realizations in landscape architecture and the art of the urban garden.

At the base of all of 100Landschaftsarchitektur’s work ‘garden’ serves as a working title that expresses the cultural root of our shaped environment. Garden stands for an understanding of open space in the widest sense and for design projects that are approachable and tangible, a focus that allows to develop even public projects beyond the practice of technical, infrastructural and architectural coordination. Focusing on projects in the urban realm, the aim of 100Landschaftsarchitektur’s work is a changed perspective of place as a re-localisation of the inhabitant in his environment. Landscape design understood as a base for a ‘Baukultur’, a building culture that is founded on careful observation of the existing and a sensible development from this resource.

Prof. Enrique Nieto - NON HUMAN LIFE AND POLITICS OF CARING Enrique Nieto Fernandez graduated as an architect from the ETSA Madrid and received his PhD from Alicante University, where he teaches and researches since 1997. His recent work goes through the transformations of contemporary culture and its influence on the landscape of southeast Mediterranean Spain and its cultural infrastructures.

Some related projects are the Center for Contemporary Art “La Conservera” in Ceutí, with F. De Retes; the Video-Art Center “Espacio Doméstico” in Blanca, with P.A. Cruz; and the Special Protection Plan for the Historic Centre of Jumilla, with ad hoc murcia slp.

contacts

workshops@aadk.es Abraham Hurtado +34 645959374 Lorenza Manfredi +49 1639403738