IDW 2020

18 19 Sacrifice must be rewarded #12 by Els Dietvorst Discover in this ‘masterclass’ the thin line between art and life where art becomes a common place for communication, creation, exchange and engagement. Ordinary luxury #13 by Adrien Comte and Adrien Meuwly We will think by doing. It’s all about the experi- ment. Thought prototypes and interventions, we will promote freedom of use. We will make the choice of adaptable and malleable spaces that can be appropri- ated by all. We wish to promote beneficial relationships by designing open-ended and evolutive structures. We believe in creating opportunities through minimum means yet with maximum impact. Throughout simple and efficient means, the work- shop Universal Buvette led by Comte/Meuwly during the EASA 2019, claimed public space over a 200square meters parking lot with breath taking view on the alps. After only three intense days of construction, Universal Buvette became the gathering place for more than 500 architecture students to rest under the shade during the day and party all night long. What is really going on, what we’re experiencing, the rest, all the rest, where is it? How should we take account of, question, describe what happens every day and recurs everyday: the banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the infra-ordinary, the background noise, the habitual? Perec, « L’infra-ordinaire », 1973 Act one SUBURBAN ODYSSEY Ruins in reverse are the opposite of the “romantic ruin” because the building don’t fall into ruin after they are built but rather rise into ruin before they are built. “I am convinced that the future is lost somewhere in the dumps of the non-historical past, it is in yesterday’s newspaper, in the jejune advertisements of science fic- tion movies, in the flash mirror of our rejected dreams.” Robert Smithson “The monuments of Passaic” Act two AMPLIFYING CONDITIONS We will promote freedom of uses by developing pro- ject and interventions as a narration. We will reveal potentials, based on the reading of found situations. We will advertise these potentials. Through a punchy text and a convincing drawing — glued on site just like an publicity — we believe atten- tion can be caught, hoping to get some reactions. What could it be ? Act three POP-UP LUXURY Making do and getting by: With minimum means, yet maximum impact: on-site performances as a way of sharing the envisioned interventions. This will produce a short smartphone-format movie. Ready to be shared on social medias.