IDW 2021

14 15 #10 Common Ground by Traumnovelle and Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer Earthworks are the founding blocks of collective ac- tions of our societies, ranging from the narratives be- hind geoglyphs and excavated temples or troglodyte cities, all the way to large scale infrastructure and mining. On a symbolic level, the digging of founda- tions guarantees a strong construction, as collective works act as binders for a collectivity. The capping of the ring road, and in particular the Canal tunnels, will excavate close to 10 million cubic meters of earth. Rather than considering these as pure waste, can they become a resource in the construction of collective landscapes? Can their use generate new landscapes which defy and define new open spaces? How can these landscapes propose forms of collective use or meaning? Students will investigate modes of use for earth as a raw material for the creation of public spaces in Luchtbal with highly defined collective meaning. They will construct their proposal through creative writ- ing, earth modeling, model photography and graphic design in order to communicate their collective land- scapes to the people of Luchtbal. #11 Undercommoning Design By Menna Agha As a part of the belief in the importance of emotional education of the Architect, this project is a praxis based experiment that relies on the notion of the undercommons and Black fugitive planning. The un- dercomming is a notion first proposed by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney in their 2013 book under the same name. The undercommon disrupts the construct of formality and finds room in the cracks of the system. Consequently, we will reposition design outside the pounds of institutional impositions, we will be disruption, we will consent to disruption, and we will preserve upheaval. The Design Studio will start its investigation with the question of commoning as a practice of sharing and seek performance of under- commoning as a practice of resistance. In simpler words, this project will be an exercise in comradery with our site and its people. We will try to generate a design that challenges existing forms of injustice. We will seek the materialization of our de- sign with/on site. This studio will be emotional, poetic, and peculiar; it will require that we surrender to the journey and challenge it simultaneously. We will do some reading, we will chart some drawing, and we will build something. Image 1 Wheeler-Kenyon method 1930-35 Image 2 Francis Alÿs - When Faith Moves Mountains - 2002 Image 3 Ploughing Match, Sydney, Australia, around 1900 1 2 3