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AA-ETSAM workshop Madrid feb-2010
Table of contents Raw material. Unit 8 booklets (a rellenar por la AA) Chapter one: the aim of the workshop Chapter two: operating manual for transformation After word Acknowledgements Index (terms and images) Tables
Foreword Architects are failed readers. We are trained to browse on books to extract the maximum information out of images, charts, tables and legal manuals. The text linking those to one another is replaced with creativity. But architects also live among books. They are companions and instruments for our creative work as well as objects of desire for knowledge. The one-week workshop in Madrid presents a challenging oportunity of a collaborative design studio around books as an extensive meaning; the contents and the container and the context. By methods of infiltration In foreign work, students will face the scientific approach of production: manipulating previous existing material to unbind, introduce and relocate information.
Chapter one: the aim of the workshop The raw material this time is a booklet produced by the students in unit 8 AA in the scenario of a politically involved design. It will be transformed over a series of operations whose aim is to cultivate and feed with information, the initial document. The title of the workshop refers to the paradox of books as self-contained systems that yet will prove extensible. From a concise coherent piece a major extension is going to take place. Architects become editors that convert a book into a pod in which to cultivate information. As a local tribute to James Joyce’s procedures, the only condition of this transformation is not to delete anything and increase the contents by double (mínimum of times x 2) the material within (including texts, images, drawings, instructions, prototypes etc…) Measuring unit will be bytes. Following those constraints the aim of this workshop is to change the nature of the book augmenting the atributes and transforming it into something different by modifying the following aspects: o Category of book 1 o Physical aspect o Contents o Order of contents (chapters) o Sequence of reading o Begining and ending Note 1 Taxonomy of books (relates topic and container) Fiction Illustrated albums Cientific books Atlas Pop-up books User’s manuals Travel guides Recorded books Cook books
Graphic novels Object- books Music scores
Chapter two: operating manual for transformations Students will select concepts and architectural evidence in the AA material liable to be transformed. Amongst other possible operations we propose:
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Apply new patterns of use over the existing projects Convert the extensive into intensive Propose a reversible version of the scheme Extract one or several pieces proven to be unefficient and insert a replacement v Shift form mandain to extraordinary v Map the budget inside the proposal v Trace maps to link several projects v Increase the graphic material to describe a scheme v Increase the conceptual material of a project with examples. v Change the working context of a programme v Reduce carbon dioxide emissions of whatever contained in the book v Transformation of the book-object v Increase in four degrees the “working temperature” of the book v Merge books together to change the scale of the proposals v Define grammar to be applied to book contents v v v
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Language: The language of the Workshop is english. Every presentation, discussion and document submitted will be held in that language. Groups: The students will assemble in up to 10 groups of 5 members each. (One visiting student form the AA and four from ETSAM). The AA student will perform the job captain of the team and will distribute tasks Role distribution: Within the groups internal organization each member will be assigned a precise role as: coordinator, graphic master, concept developer, researcher, technical consultant.. Different roles can be assigned depending on the nature of work and will be able to rotate if in the interest and dinamics of the group. Submissions: Submitted material can be digital or analogic: digital models, videos, drawings, models, prototipes or any physical item. All must be registered in a digital file and into the blog. Time tables: each member will attend at least the anchor points of the workshops: tutorials, pin up and Final Jury logbook: at the end of each day every group will submit a very brief logbook sheet with location, itinerary and following destination: register of tasks accomplished and organization of the next step of workshop (this task will be performed by a different member of the group each day) The exchange recipient will be two social netwoks: GEP blog and Facebook
S Workshop Schedule & timetable 15 /02/2010 Monday
16 /02/2010 Tuesday
Work on Book Presentations. First Draft Assembling of Groups First discussions L tutorials and inner organization
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17 /02/2010 Wednesday Proccessing of Pin up Conclusions Submit logbook day 2
18 /02/2010 Thursday Work on Book Second Draft
19/02/2010 Friday Book “printing” and binding
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tutorials
Teachers NL,FC,IC,AJ attending PM,JV,AP,IJ
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Lunch time
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ACTIVITY
B Groups submit planning and design targets for workshop Submit logbook day 1
Teachers NL,FC,IC,AJ attending PM,JV,AP,IJ Key to chart: NL Nuria Lombardero FC Francisco Canales IC Izaskun Chinchilla AJ Antonio Juarez
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PIN UP 18:30-21:30 Processes & Book Draft
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Work on Book Second Draft
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BOOK FAIR FINAL JURY
Submit logbook day 3
tutorials Submit logbook day 4
17:00- 20:00
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PM Paula Montoya JV Jose Luis Vallejo AP Andres Perea IJ Invited Jury
L anchor points: compulsory attendance of all members enrolled in workshop Openning times of the workshop 8:30 to 21.30 (Monday to Friday) Location: Room: XS7 in Basement -1