20 21 3 2 1 3 2 1 # 1 8 # 1 9 AcupunctuRING - treating the fracture by Kristina Careva & Rene Lisac The City Acupuncture method aims at improving city life quality through regeneration of public space. The method has 3 main pillars: small and precise interventions in the urban fabric can significantly improve urban life; interventions should be designed in the interdisciplinary discourse; and with the participation of the interested stakeholders. The upcoming Antwerp regeneration is dramatically changing relations and image of the city, revealing 3 levels of fracture: in space, social relations, and time. Can small City Acupuncture interventions support this process of triple fracture healing? How can a rough and intensive construction process be soothed by precise urban acupuncture? Howcan local children that will grow up together with these processes be successfully involved? The workshop has a sequence of activities intended to obtain fast and precise results in a short period with divergent phase (broad mapping of all relevant facts and ideas) and convergent phase (focusing on key aspects and actual interventions). Students in interdisciplinary groups will be asked to creatively react and design small interventions in public spaces: either in the ring itself, on its border, or close by. The participation of the school children, as the best target audience and critics, is intended in the middle of the workshop and on the final presentation. Various Small Fires by Federico Taverna & Siebrent Willems There is no doubt that the capping of the road will constitute a radical change for the entire city and the adjacent neighbourhoods. However, we believe the city can also be transformed by everyday events: richness can come from the adjustment in scale or context of conventional elements, producing unusual meanings. Therefore, the workshop will pose the question: how can we design the ordinariness of the future? We will reflect on the relation between the small scale of the objects versus the large scale of the ring road, and the influence upon the intermediate neighbourhood scale. We will project a multitude of small-scale interventions in order to affect the meantime of the ring road, focusing on the effect of ephemeral and ordinary aspects of architecture, and their role within the urban scale. We will explore the notions of permanence and change, the notions of the ordinary and intertwining scales, of symbolism and communication. We will explore the potentialities of urban voids through a speedtrip of collective designing, drawing and discussing contemporary issues of design and urbanism. Starting from their observations, students will define which elements can kickstart the process of a transformation of the everyday. Ultimately, the group will engage in the production of a scenography, in which the interventions will constitute a common scenario for the ring road. 1 2 3
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