16 17 1 2 # 1 2 # 1 3 A Soft Storm By Alexander Auris & Lucas de Mello Reitz A soft storm is temporary. When passing, moves things up. A soft storm can embrace the city with tender waves. We will use this soft storm to bring gradual politics that look towards a better understanding of memories that were erased.. We propose a week of soft storm, arriving and rethinking the design of monuments in Antwerp. The monuments erected around the city tell some stories, what other stories have been forgotten? If classical monuments are devices to see, remember, and celebrate acts of (so-called) heroism, we propose designing the celebration and remembrance of (dis)affection in the city through queering it. Queering as a political and ethical tool – an act of change and resistance to ongoing practices of violence. By revision of the history of queerness in Antwerp, we approach supposedly banal spaces in the city to recuperate its memory, commemorate them and retell a story of a community. We propose replacing the roughness, tallness, highlight, and heroismof existing monuments with the softness, touchiness, fragility, and disruptiveness of the queer monument. In this workshop we will conduct students throughout the reflection on howclassicmonuments are conceived, patrimony politics held, and how critically think about the design of new, soft monuments based on queer theory in architecture. The transdisciplinary exercise embraces concepts of Theory of Urban Design and Architectural Criticism, and the field of Architectural Cultures. We propose a lecture and an open discussion on urban monuments, using Latin American and Belgium examples, followed by a walk as an exercise in the cityscape, its monuments, and possible stories to be unveiled. In groups or individually, participants construct a conceptual narrative of soft monuments based on their affection – trauma and untold stories and places of celebration. Later, students are conducted to produce conceptual collages (digital/analogical) to be later exhibited for Soft Monuments. Dreamers Disease By Iga Gorniak “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ~ Haruki Murakami Visiting museums, exploring collections of historical tools and primitive artifacts gives us the opportunity to interact with the past. Studying mysterious objects helps us to understand ancient technologies used by our ancestors and see the progress. In comparison to this, facingmodern challenges and rapid changes triggers an inquiry into unpredictable futures. I would like to invite a group of students for the expedition into the fictional world after the infectious Dreamers Disease outbreak. What alternative medicine has to offer? In the co-creative process we will create a collection of future “instruments” designed to control the situation. We will collectively imagine the aesthetics of “new wave after the storm”, and metaphor will guide us in the process. Created props will be displayed on the final exhibition with short instructions explaining how todo-it-yourself, aiming to stimulate critical reflection and engage social interaction. 1 2 3
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTg3Nzk=