14 15 1 2 3 1 2 3 # 1 0 # 1 1 SOFT URBAN EDGES by Alberto Pottenghi & Mariana Sendas (MONOatelier) Following the reasons that prompted us to reflect on how to tame the large infrastructures present in the area, during the IDW2020 edition, we keep going with the theme of soft urban edges. Reflecting on the meaning of a new, strong, intrusive element in a community that is often not ready to accept the change of a territory. If we can identify moments in which this great intruder can offer a new scenario capable of hosting the community instead of rejecting it, offering opportunities instead of denying them. Students will be asked to design using simple elements, as curtains or modular elements, to build new partitions and achieve the creations of new spaces where different activities events could take place. Once again, by using soft surfaces, as curtains or panels, the transition of the form is natural because they move in and out or they can catch the light or shade. Art and architecture as tools capable of restoring the feeling of common ownership, of appropriation of, apparently, subtracted or radically changed public spaces, subject to a big change. Art and architecture as tools to ensure that the local community will be the protagonist of this change. “Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives.” - Joseph Beuys PERFORMING DEVICES by Adrien Meuwly, Adrien Comte (Comte/Meuwly) & Theo de Meyer Luchtbal, a territory in transformation. The workshop aims to raise awareness of the existing specificities and qualities genuinely gathered in an underestimated territory, which are threatened by its foreseen large-scale transformation. Luchtbal – as it is today - is our Eldorado. Somany potentials and possibilities are embedded in today’s territory: the generosity of the common spaces, mostly left aside as wastelands, magnificent leftover in-between giant mall’s parking and industrial halls, and the resources to be found or reused, from the junk of recycling plants to the assortment of the DIYmarkets. All of these potentials and resources are gathered in Luchtbal, waiting to be assembled to reveal excitement. The participants will be asked to produce performative devices by combining the richness of a rediscovered place (1/3), the resources found and re-used onsite (1/3), and the endless assortment of the DIY markets (1/3). The sitewill by our laboratory. The junk our trigger. The DIYmarket our catalyser. The performative devices are going to are to be implemented on specific sites, triggering reaction of the passers- by, raising awareness.
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