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Production of Architecture - Unreal Central Perspective 2006 - Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm
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Unit leader/Advanced level: Tor Lindstrand together with Palle Torsson
Theoretical seminars by Håkan Nilsson and Patrik Mehrens
This course examines the history, theory and practice of representation and the production of architecture. We will see that projective systems have affected our understanding of space through the evolution of media such as painting, photography, film and computer generated imagery. With the aid of 3D tools bundled into an pervasive on-line platform called Second Life we will formulate limitations and possibilities for the production of architecture. The representation of objects as we see them and their measured description, two tasks that are conventionally distinguished in architectural drawing, will be shown to have been unwittingly, in many respects, mutually determined and transformed.
LOL architects are here to fulfill your dreams and desires. We are located at The Office, a virtual island in Second Life.
“Talking about the new is just so last Friday. On the other hand, by saying the same we always create something new. In this work we are using all kinds of different strategies and different materials, connecting and re-connecting things and contexts. Instead of thinking that changing something means doing the opposite, which means simply reversing the image in the mirror and continuing doing the same, this work is all about changing the way things change. Or as Nike put it in a recent ad: On our way to innovation we passed something beautiful.”
LINDEN LAB FELLOWSHIP
Linden Lab is pleased to announce its first fellowship in visual and performing arts for creative innovation in Second Life.
This $4,000 fellowship will provide a young artist with a chance to be free for a semester or summer to explore the use of the digital world of Second Life as an artistic medium. In doing so, we hope that we will see Second Life used to even greater potential in the expressive arts to the benefit of both the Second Life culture and the broader world of art. The application deadline is March 15, 2006. Applications will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished academics, and the fellowship recipient will be announced in mid-April.
Download application here
Do you belive myths exist in the Virtual World? Have you heard or seen anything? Please contribute with your knowledge to Marcus Eckermans degree project “Myths In The Virtual World” Bachelor of Arts Game Design.
Contact: Markus Eckerman
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Production of Architecture - Pink Styrofoam 2006 - Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm
Unit leader/Advanced level: Tor Lindstrand
Theoretical seminars by Håkan Nilsson and Patrik Mehrens
During this course we will examine how contemporary building materials and technologies relate to the production of architecture. New modes of production and new materials have continually developed and changed during the last few decades, at the same time it has become difficult to trace how this development have transformed the way we understand architecture. Traditional modernistic ideals as honest accounts of material, function and construction have given way to an increasing occupation with architecture as image, which in turn has lead to an increasing separation between architecture/construction and form/structure. Today we see built examples of this simplified and problematic attitude towards architecture as a complex process. The ambitions in this course are to see if it is possible to reformulate these issues. Is it possible to think architecture that, instead of routinely obsessing with style and external attributes, actually relates to contemporary building materials, construction technologies and modes of production?
Scenario: Due to refurbishing of Torpedoverkstaden, Moderna Dansteatern have to move out of its current location at Slupskjulsvägen 32, Skeppsholmen during next years season 2007. Your assignment is to propose a temporary theatre building on Skeppsholmen during this period. The relatively short life-span of the building makes it possible to think about new approaches to architecture, theatre, construction, location, materials. Use it.
Program: Conceptualize a building that fulfils the needs of Moderna Dansteatern (MDT). Study the existing situation (building, plans, location etc.) and formulate or reformulate the program.
Situation: Skeppsholmen. You are free to find a site anywhere on the island as long as it fulfil the needs of MDT and doesn’t negatively interfere with other activities on Skeppsholmen. This site in the heart of Stockholm is as protected against architecture as possible. Nevertheless it’s interesting as a cultural tourist bastion, almost like the Alcatraz. There is also the possibility to argue for other locations.
Theatre was originally a public activity engaged in a public space. It was drama and story as much as it was a lived situation of socio-political exchange. Theatre was an activity that provoked differences in society, if not through direct critique so through allegories. Today theatre is a private activity and its site has transformed into private space. It has lost its potentiality for actual exchange. Audience participation substitutes the once activated spectator today absent in the theatre. What has happened to theatre? Has it lost its very specificity to be a site where individuals share and exchange in processes of subjectivication?
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DWG! Kaai Theatre Bruxelles Moderna Dansteatern Stockholm
