MARINA EISENHAUER 2020 portfolio
URBAN INTERVENTION
DICKENS MUSEUM For us, the most outstanding and poignant social issue is that all the poverty, misery and inequality that was living side by side then, it still exists now, in a more subtle and disguised manner, but still existing nonetheless. Our aim is to highlight these issues especially affecting young people which Dickens so dramatically advocated for: home, child poverty, inequality, family disorders and criminality to name a few. His work then and this project now want to play a role in social activism by writing about the streets of London and the people in them. In collaboration with Holborn Media Arts club five short stories are being developed, each one is linked to five different locations, chosen from the Dickens topography, places that he choose and mentioned in his books, places that existed then and we can still visit now, places that represent these social issues: Mecklenburgh Square, around Brunswick Gardens, Coram Fields, and The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The five short stories are plotted in a Dickensian tone around life justices and injustices. In order to gain young audience engagement (our target audience) we are developing an Augmented Reality experience (Dickens also used the latest narrative techniques at the time, journalism and the first ever serial short stories, to gain audience engagement), in the form of a treasure hunt, via QR codes and interactive sound alerts on each location, where the audience can find stories and once they reach the museum, they enter an immersive room where they can write messages or different possible endings and interactively projected on the walls.
Academic Project London 2019 MA Narrative Environments | CSM
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COLLABORATION AND WORKSHOPS
POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
LOCATIONS FOR INTERVENTIONS
CHARLES DICKENS MUSEUM
VISIBILITY FOR YOUNGSTERS
MEDIA ARTS CLUB
ENGAGEMENT
Mecklenburgh Square
AR EXPERIENCE IN 5 DIFFERENT
Brunswick Square Gardens Entrance
LOCATIONS + MUSEUM
Brunswick Square Gardens Exit
MAC Workshops
Coram Fields
Charles Dickens Museum
The Great Ormond Hospital
THE EXPERIENCE
AR Game 5 Notebooks
Mecklenburgh Square
Brunswick Square Brunswick Square Gardens Entrance Gardens Exit
Coram Fields
The Great Ormond Hospital
5 Locations 5 Stories
Writer’s Block
Final Destination: Home! food safe
shelter relationship
Happiness
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Structure Warmth
HOME for us Inspiration
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Shelter Instability Behavior Unsafety Sacrifice Issues Identity Identity Culture HOME for Dickens Family Materiality Values Community Shame
AR for forDickens MAC HOME
Rewards Shame
Unsafety MAC Characters Issues Game Identity Motivation to Play Family
Materiality Points Values Charles Dickens as Community Character
We Are Family
New Friends
HOME!
USER INTERFACE Help Dickens Write!
CHARLES WAS HERE
Paw Victory
Lonely Night
SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE
ARENA THEATER The project consists in a modular Arena Theatre built for the new headquarters of the cultural ONG “NUA” Institute, from the favela União de Vila Nova in São Paulo. The project’s site has a great potential for this architectural intervention. It is located in a very politically engaged community due to the presence of the NUA Institute, an ONG created to promote social change via cultural activities with local children. The new ONG building is located in front of a circular square which is mostly empty and only used as a parking lot. This square is also on the path between the favela and the nearest train station. Thus, the parents and the rest of the community could benefit from the easy access to these activities and contact with culture. Our goal was to create spaces with multiple uses. The Institute offers drama and dance classes, that could be held in the Theatre, but is also promotes other kinds of performance like rap and hip-hop presentations, poetry reading and music concerts. Being modular, the Theatre would have different composition possibilities, for all these different uses. The structures were thought with used wooden PBR pallet parts. Pallets, in the city of São Paulo, are often only used once by the markets and then thrown away while still being in good conditions. For these reason, it represents a great amount of the waste produced by the city’s food distributors and public markets, becoming an extremely cheap material. Our design was based on the pallet parts’ dimensions and the reassemble of these parts into two furniture typologies.
Academic Project São Paulo - Brazil 2016 Bachelors of Architecture and Urban Studies | USP
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map showing the location of the project site in relation to the favela area. The red arrows represent the main path used by the community to and from the nearest train station, wich connects them to most workplaces at São Paulo’s city center.
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THEATER IN THE CITY My final thesis focused on the relations between theater and the city. My main goal was to understand the possibilities that the urban environment provides as scenography and space for performance and, on the other hand, how art can act as a tool to change the uses in the city spaces. The work had both theoretical and practical parts. For the practical project I developed three scenographic urban interventions based on scenes from Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel “Mrs Dalloway”. Clarissa’s flaneur in the streets of London in an essential dramatic element in the narrative. I chose the moments that, for me, best synthesize the story and brought them to the context of my city: São Paulo. The first intervention represents the opening scene of the book, when Clarissa Dalloway leaves her house to buy flowers and meets an old friend while crossing St James Park. In São Paulo, “Augusta Park” was the place I chose for this encounter. The second scene I chose was the one at the Mulberry Flower Shop and for this moment the “Oscar Freire Square” was the perfect fit. The third moment I chose to focus on was Septimu’s suicide scene. In São Paulo, the place for this to happen would be the “9 de Julho Belvedere”.
Final Thesis Project São Paulo - Brazil 2016 Architecture and Urban Studies Department | USP
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1 Augusta Park | St. James Park
In this first scene, Mrs. Dalloway leaves her house to buy flowers for her party. While she walks around the streets of London and crosses St. James Park, her childhood memories are brought back after she meets an old friend. Clarissa feels very nostalgic and remembers how she used to “love life” in the countryside. The Scenography for this moment should bring up dreamlike sensations, feelings found in childrens’ dreams and fairytales. For these purposes, the ”Casinha” (little house) at Augusta Park, was the perfect location.
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2 Oscar Freire Square | Flower Shop
The second intervention was inspired by the Flower Shop scene, when Clarissa Dalloway window-shops in Bond Street. In these path, Clarissa thinks about the futile society in which she lives and how unimportant these upper class matters are before our ephemeral lives. At this same moment the author describes Septimus, a traumatized and depressed character, walking around the same place. The Scenography for this scene had two paralell paths: Clarissa’s one is on the upper level, with warm colours and many possible exits. The other one, for Septimus, is on the lower level, with a pale colour, where the character would feel confined, vulnerable and always exposed to the public.
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3 9 de Julho Belvedere | Septimus’ Suicide
The third scene I chose to recreate was Septimus’ Suicide. The scene begins with Dr. Holmes, Septimus’ doctor, that unexpectedly arrives at his house. The patient feels threatened and, in a panic attack, jumps out of a window. To build this moment’s atmosphere I searched for a place that had an astonishing spatiality and that could cause disconfort, dizziness and vertigo. The “9 de Julho Belvedere” was the chosen location. The scenography guides the sight though a red tunnel, focusing the attention and forcing the perspective towards the busy and dangerous avenue below.
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