Tutors:

Natalja Boljsakov (RS), James Brazil (AU), Cesar Daoud (LB/FR), Brian Miller (CL)

Workshop description:

The public space performances aim’s to enlighten and create a new type of territory, based on a combined subjective/objective approach. This new territory, will be colonised by micro infrastructure’s, questioning the urban space and its perception.We will study the contrasts of the city by transplanting and mixing up its “body” pieces, blurring the edge.

We aim to investigate how the architect and designer can identify and suggest simple transformations of the urban space to improve everyday life. The workshop Urban Body Trans*Plant is a ‘performative’ investigation on the psychogeographic reading of the city’s urban spaces.

Statutory planning seems to comply with pre-existing conditions: cars, commerce, tourism, where “play” is absent from any concerns. We wanted to prospect in this field; how architects, designers, artists can identify urban discontinuities and suggest simple transformations of the urban space to enrich everyday life through modes of unsolicited actions of play & performance.

These investigative performance’s will be articulated in a playful manner in order to format our personal predefined perception, triggering the use of our 5senses. These guerilla style games will seek to connect the surrounding to our sensations, then will be translated to data, creating psychogeographical maps of the city–> measured by time, distance, illumination levels, density of usage, points of interest(tourist) and points of necessity(local). Thus exploring and questioning the urban design through the user, to a better understanding the relation between architecture,urbanity and human experience. This will be used to weave a new spatial and sensorial fabric, relocated into the final closing party, as a prototype of an interacting space involving and connecting the public to the performer and to their ‘sensorial’ perception.