IDW 2020

20 21 Seeds of the world waiting to germinate #14 by Luigi Coppola In the workshop I would like explore practices of radical pedagogy with the students and to share with them my practice and research in the commons. I’m interested in particular in the potential of investing marginal / liminal space in the neighbour- hoods of Luchtbal and Lambrechtshoeken in Antwerp. Together with the student I’d like to “derive” in the first day of workshop in order to analyse the potenti- alities of the neighbourhoods in terms of accessibility, possibility to install a generative process, to interact and intervene in the public space. At the end of the ex- ploration and evaluation we will choose a location to install a permanent workshop for the rest of the week. The preference will be for a potential green space/ garden in the city, an area to occupy temporarily and share with the inhabitants and the citizens of Antwerp. The notions of reproduction, crossbreeding, belonging, evolution/order/complexity, social/polit- ical engagement / entanglement will be central. The holistic approach of permaculture / agro-ecology will be combined with physical and theatrical exercise of Legislative Theatre (Augusto Boal’s legacy), the criti- cal observation of the urban and public landscape with experiment of polyphonic composition, the technics of plant-propagation with the comprehension of the patterns (frontiers) of commoning. Common(ing) Draw(ing) #15 by Anđelka Bnin-Bninski Drawing activities and procedures are means for creation, communication and reflection. Although they are considered as the main architectural craft (Alberti, Evans, Frascari), nonarchitects are also used to formulate and express their ideas via drawing (In- gold, Belardi). Can drawing be employed as a common ground for discussion, planing and critique? How to commonize drawing? The workshop is centered on specific tactics of liminal drawing (Bnin-Bninski) that aims to formulate drawing as a question that triggers uncertainty and articulate contingency. In this per- spective, the furthermost objective is to examine the activist potentials of commoning the drawing. In the specific case of the ring road capping in Antwerp, the workshop concentrates on common drawing as a shared experience and as a dynamic, open product. The objective is to design the common drawing installation for fencing the construction site. The principal dynamics of the workshop is two- staged: 1) The common draw investigations among the participants of the workshop: How to articulate a group drawing and to specify it as a question towards local communities? How to materialize this question as a construction site fence installation? 2) The fence installation as the resilient discussion devise between the architects and actors from local communities. The workshop explore the notion of the empathy and the idea of the drawing inhabitation (Emmons). image Rood vlak (1962), Constant. Source: Mark Wigley, “Extreme hospitality”, in New Babylon: To Us, Liberty, ed. Constant et al. (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2016), 38–49: 42.