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CINEMA/TIC STRUCTURES
Paolo Cascone — AA-MA PhD-Eng @ COdesignLab — www.codesignlab.org
Marilena Laddaga — Architetto @ COdesignLab — www.codesignlab.org
Category: Workshop
Level of difficulty: intermediate
Topics:
- DIY
- architecture
- co-design
- self-building
- social innovation
- urban ecology
- reuse
Mode: Two days to co-design (June 3rd and 4th) and four days of DIY construction activities (June 14th to 17th)
Dates:
03/06/201710.00 / 18.00
04/06/201710.00 / 18.00
14/06/201710.00 / 18.00
15/06/201710.00 / 18.00
16/06/201710.00 / 18.00
17/06/201710.00 / 18.00
It will take place at:
Total duration: 36 hours (break not included)
Cost: 240 €
Output: services, products, skills
Recommended for
students, researchers, professionals, retirees, immigrants, unemployed
Min. number of partecipants to start: 15
Max. number of partecipants: 25
Held by:
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Paolo Cascone
AA-MA PhD-Eng / COdesignLab — www.codesignlab.org
Born in Naples, lived between Africa and Western Indies, he completed his studies in London’s Architectural Association. In 2007 he founded COdesignLab in Paris, where he has been teaching as associate professor in the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture. He’s lately been focusing on work, applied research and teaching between Europe and Africa, working on inter-disciplinary courses spanning between urban ecology, digital fabrication and DIY. In 2013, he founded Urban Fabrication Laboratory, an urban ecology and digital fabrication lab. He currently leads the African Fabbers School project, between Italy and Cameroon.
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Marilena Laddaga
Architetto / COdesignLab — www.codesignlab.org
Graduated in Bari’s Polytechnic University – faculty of Architecture. She’s been working in architecture firms in Rome and Berlin, and in research activities in India. She deals with design, interior design and digital fabrication. She often works in existing building heritage recovery projects. She attended the first Open Design School workshop in Matera, one of the key elements of Matera 2019’s cultural agenda. In the past, she’s also already partnered with PopHub, the organization that started the expostModerno project.
What is it about?
This workshop answers to the need of living the spaces of the former Arena Moderno, an open-space cinema in Bari’s “Libertà” neighborhood, which the expostModerno project is giving back to the community. At the same time, this action stems from the need to develop and share a project with the communities living the territory, activating new design and DIY processes across the different realities in the neighborhood and the several cultural and artistic networks around, with the arena’s stage acting as a shared activation platform. The project itself will become a moment of knowledge exchange, with the goal of triggering an involving mechanism which could make the cinema operational again, so to be able to inaugurate it by the end of June, for its first summer season after 40 years of inactivity.
What will we work on?
The concrete output will be four moving platforms that could serve as stages, playgrounds, etc… for cultural and community events of any kind within the cinema, defining an open system to several possible spatial set-ups.
How does it work?
The course – a result of the cooperation between SOS and EXPOSTMODERNO – will be split in two phases:
Phase 01 – Co-design
In this phase, we will develop the concept and prototype the idea of moving platforms that could serve for different set-ups for cultural, theatrical, musical and cinematographic events. An open call will be released to collect actual seats from the area’s citizens, which will be integrated in such devises. The phase will end with a public project review, featuring all the entities that were involved in the EXPOSTMODERNO project.
Phase 02 – Self-construction
We will work in two teams: a first one will work on restoring and hacking the seats, and a second one will build the moving platforms. The two teams will work in close contact, so to integrate the seats on the moving devices. The phase will end with a final opening party with the whole neighborhood in the Arena Moderno.
NB. This activity will be held in a ‘hands-on’ workshop format. We’ll learn by doing, together. We will be working full time, 6 hours a day, with our hands, our heads and the traditional and digital craftsmanship tools.
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