16 17 1 2 # 1 2 # 1 5 mean-time²-gate by Anđelka Bnin-Bninski The meantime timegate, or the mean-time²-gate examines the spatial and cultural potentials of the construction site boundaries for the capping of the Antwerp ring road. Starting from the very notion of boundary as a multilayered concept of various limits, the space-time relation is considered as a platform for contextual explorations and the act of the threshold design tactics, tailored for the Luchtbal and Lambrechtshoeken neighborhoods. The workshop takes approximate meantime period of the construction site (10 – 15 yrs) as an interval for social and cultural experimentation and unfolding. The mean-time²-gate as a relation between the space and time is considered a specific research tool and the main outcome of the workshop. The precise positioning within the micro-political context provokes nuanced critical attitude and awareness to evolve with time and sensitivity to differences between the local communities. The focus is on the action of a twist – turning the boundary into a gate, a threshold and open possibility for a passage, where time and movement are essential. The principal research and design tactics are drawing, spatial drawing and geometrical inquiry. While drawing is the instrument for commoning processes between the students and inhabitants, geometrical inquiry is centered on the notions of a gate, time and movement. The foreseen result is a 1:1 meantime²-gate spatial drawing exposing and triggering the dynamics, criticality and vulnerability of multiple and complex threshold geometries. Image 1 The Gates, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 2005 Image 2 Aramu Muru (Gate of the Gods), Peru, 2nd century B.C.E Extrapolations! by Marine de Dardel & Lorenza Donati Designing the meantime – to think about the future is to have faith in today: Inspired by thechild’swonderful ability todaydream and wander about, led by it’s subconsious desires, raw emotions and sensorial impulses, Driven by a common fascination for the overwhelming abundanceof information and endlessmultiplicities of perception, contradictions and complexities of sites apprehended through the means of multidisciplinary sources and a referential vocabulary, Urged by the imperatives of contemporary situations, socio-political incentives and both historical scenarios and ficitonal narratives, Supported by contemporary media and technologies, based on open source data and universally accessible tools, We aim at the reporting of hard facts and data as well as the recording of subjective (his)stories, experiences and dreams. The students shall combine systematic research and on-site surveying (such as photographic reportage and recording) with their subjective perceptions to suggest alternate stories thanks to multi-disciplinary sources. The aleatory or strategic ordering of images shall produce shock, tension and poetry, and potentially endless narratives. Past, present, and future becomings of the ring road and all impacted districts of Antwerp will beintertwined, generating unprecedented stories in which actors, places, infrastructure, truth, fiction, promises, memories, wishes all take part. Such a collection of imagery could further be extended throughout the whole process of construction, exponentially de-multiplying the potential outcomes, and most importantly acting both as a recording canvas of the meanwhile as well as the screen ontowhich both adults and children may project their dreams for the future. 1 2 3
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