teachings / x — @ Officina degli Esordi
LUCity 2: an exercise in Light, Geometry and Colour
Pedro Cavaco Leitão — Artist @ @ Moradavaga
João Mário Dias de Oliveira — Artist / Designer / Engineer @ @ Colectivo Suspeito / Fiume Designs
Category: Laboratorio
Level of difficulty: facile
Topics:
- light
- installation
- DIY
- art
- worskshop
Mode: Full immersion of 4 days
Dates:
21/03/20199:00 / 18:00
22/03/20199:00 / 18:00
23/03/20199:00 / 18:00
24/03/20199:00 / 18:00
It will take place at: Officina degli Esordi
Total duration: 24 hours (break not included)
Free activity
Output: prodotti
Recommended for
tutti
Min. number of partecipants to start: 5
Max. number of partecipants: 15
Held by:
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Pedro Cavaco Leitão
Artist @ / Moradavaga
Moradavaga (a contraction of the Portuguese words for “vague address”) is a collective born from the collaboration of architects Manfred Eccli (Bolzano, Italy, 1981) and Pedro Cavaco Leitão (Porto, Portugal, 1976). Based in Kaltern/ Caldaro (Italy) and Porto (Portugal), Moradavaga started working in 2006 around the issues of vacant spaces, derelict buildings and the activation of the public realm, devising performative objects and active interventions, such as social workshops, ideas competitions and architectural happenings. Intersecting architecture, art and design, our works function as “dormant tools” in a waiting status, requiring the users engagement to activate them.
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João Mário Dias de Oliveira
Artist / Designer / Engineer @ / Colectivo Suspeito / Fiume Designs
João Dias-Oliveira is a product designer and a building engineer under the identity of www.fiumedesigns.com. He started as a researcher on the mitigation of seismic risk, and later on the promotion of Design as a collaborative and participative tool. He has been involved in different projects and scales for product/graphic design, architecture and art installations, mainly in collaborations with Pedro Cavaco Leitão and Moradavaga. In 2016 he co-founded the collective suspeito.github.io dedicated to the design and development of art installations.
What is it about?
The LUCity project has been funded by the Creative Europe program and involves four international organizations from Slovenia, Portugal, Italy and England. These are workshops - that involve local communities working with local and international artists - aimed at lighting installations to enhance public spaces.
In this second edition the participants will work with a collective - Moradavaga, based in Kaltern/ Caldaro (Italy) and Porto (Portugal) - at building a light installation applied to the main entrance of Officina degli Esordi, the urban laboratory of Bari.
LUCity project is co-funded by the Creative Europe program of European Union
→ https://www.instagram.com/lucity_project/
→ https://www.facebook.com/LUCityproject/
What will we work on?
With a set of materials (cardboard, plastic tubes, metal strings, emergency blankets, RGB lights) the participants would be asked to design/produce/build one or more objects each or all together to be placed in the lobby space/entrance of the Officina degli Esordi.
The narrative frame of the workshop will be set together with participants starting from the flows – of both of people and air – that take place in the entrance lobby of the building and that could be visible from below as well as from the top, and from inside as well from the outside thus being present in all the movements around that space.
All the workshop activities shall be documented throughout and will be presented in the wrap-up ending session.
How does it work?
Il programma delle attività prevede:
Day 1 (March 21st)
09:00 - 10:45
☛ Artists presentation;
☛ Presentation of the workshop concept/intentions/goals/timeline and available materials;
☛ Brief introduction of the participants;
11:00 – 13:00
☛ Brainstorming and material exploration/experimentation
☛ Testing activities
14:00 – 18:00
☛ Beginning of design
☛ Testing activities
Day 2 (March 22nd)
9:00 – 18:00
☛ Design-build activities;
Day 3 (March 23rd)
9:00 – 13:00
☛ Design-build activities;
14:00 – 18:00
☛ Beginning of assembling onsite
Day 4 (March 24th)
9:00 – 13:00
☛ Finishing assembling onsite
14:00 – 20:00
☛ Final presentation
☛ Opening of the piece
☛ Party
Note
15 – 20 min coffee breaks each morning and afternoon sessions and lunch breaks from 13:00 to 14:00
↳ Courses will start once the minimum number of participants is achieved.
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