15 14 #6 I¡dentify! What‘s your favourite problem? by Carola Ebert & Katrin Brünjes Urban and interior designers, architects, developers and heritage specialists are required to find solutions to pressing contemporary issues within the existing world. Topics are complex and requirements are high. On a day-to-day basis, there is hardly any time to look back, reflect or even re-visit past works. The pressing thought, the driver for the work, may be hidden in the complexity of the proposal. This is the starting point for this workshop. What are you actually interested in? What’s your opinion? What do you think today about solutions proposed by your previous self? In short: What do you identify with? In this workshop we reverse the usual design process of question > discover > define > develop > deliver = solution (double diamond problem-solving approach). You will be asked to critically work backwards and identify your “favourite problem” within previously found solutions. During the course of the workshop, participants reflect, discover new things and perspectives, reformulate and create connections with previous solutions and across disciplines. Unfulfilled wishes, absences and possibly feelings of alienation are highlighted (Day 1). These experiences are outlined and compared to previously successful strategies and skills (Day 2). To discard unnecessary baggage and to reveal individual ideals in the form of a ‘favourite problem’, participants are invited to identify their own stance and make it tactile, visual, atmospheric and/or tangible for others. Individual ideals and topics are then clustered and reflected against experience in interdisciplinary groups (Day 3), and the findings developed and materialized as installations, performances, storyboards, films etc. (Day 4). The final exhibition becomes a thinking space for the viewer (Day 5), re-connecting, arranging and engaging alienation’s individual questions in an interdisciplinary dialogue. Can you find your favourite problem here?
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