On space:
Ironic to be have to leave the space / the space-action laboratory for not being able to fulfill (pre)conditions of my stay; space is the very precondition of the act. But I keep moving in space, my cheap flight gave me a great opportunity to surf around throughout the weekend, where I can keep on observing and thinking about the space. public transportation, airports, borders, engrossing cities, landscapes, spaces filled with family, familiar and unfamiliar spaces,...And all these are following for me an increasing awareness how urban space is an political and economic tool, how the cities I have lived all my life are remapped in terms of escape routes and how the streets and places I lived through are reappropriated.
Specifically being interested in how the urban context (and especially not in its obvious, economic, physical or legal ways but more in its inherent and latent ways) conditions our modes of existence in the cities towards restriction, segregation and paralyzation, I could define space (in its plori-layered sense) not only as a precondition of life and action but as its very possibility, its constituent element. ...almost as if life and action are a function (in its mathematical sense) of space... However, there exists the potential for vice versa; that every action has a potential to challenge the space, reconfigure it, to redetermine its conditions.
On scenography:
The potential to act on space passes through development of an understanding of the space. There observation (time spent, attention given, contemplation focused, re-thinking/adjusting/positioning/...) plays the main role. Our observation of public space provided me an appreciation of many of the innumerable layers / aspects of (public) space.
function
signs
sound
borders
privacy
repetition
history
behavior
duration
contact
.
.
.
Scenography, in this sense, points at particular interest and specified focus on a chosen aspect of the space (no point at the end of sentence; an incomplete and provisional approach)
On the workshop:
A workshop not only uses public space but through, with and within public. A thought and experience production taking place at an overlapping public of its participants private positions. Not only presenting but inviting, even drawing in other personal positions together at the public space of our own researches. Being challenged with public questions out of focus. The famous "big YES" we offered to others served as the building block of the public formation. Yet no one refrained from their own interests or foci; an attendance to proposals with personal positions resulted in amalgam of positions. We arrived at a public. This makes me think about the whole process of a.pass to share, in a sense to make public a research process of personal interest. How do we make a proposal visible, attend-able, sharable?
The observation exercise paved the way from the indoors discussion of the first day to public space and to come up with proposition ideas. But it needed a big step from observations to actual proposals. What could have been another step between these two to set up intervention propositions?
Ironic to be have to leave the space / the space-action laboratory for not being able to fulfill (pre)conditions of my stay; space is the very precondition of the act. But I keep moving in space, my cheap flight gave me a great opportunity to surf around throughout the weekend, where I can keep on observing and thinking about the space. public transportation, airports, borders, engrossing cities, landscapes, spaces filled with family, familiar and unfamiliar spaces,...And all these are following for me an increasing awareness how urban space is an political and economic tool, how the cities I have lived all my life are remapped in terms of escape routes and how the streets and places I lived through are reappropriated.
Specifically being interested in how the urban context (and especially not in its obvious, economic, physical or legal ways but more in its inherent and latent ways) conditions our modes of existence in the cities towards restriction, segregation and paralyzation, I could define space (in its plori-layered sense) not only as a precondition of life and action but as its very possibility, its constituent element. ...almost as if life and action are a function (in its mathematical sense) of space... However, there exists the potential for vice versa; that every action has a potential to challenge the space, reconfigure it, to redetermine its conditions.
On scenography:
The potential to act on space passes through development of an understanding of the space. There observation (time spent, attention given, contemplation focused, re-thinking/adjusting/positioning/...) plays the main role. Our observation of public space provided me an appreciation of many of the innumerable layers / aspects of (public) space.
function
signs
sound
borders
privacy
repetition
history
behavior
duration
contact
.
.
.
Scenography, in this sense, points at particular interest and specified focus on a chosen aspect of the space (no point at the end of sentence; an incomplete and provisional approach)
On the workshop:
A workshop not only uses public space but through, with and within public. A thought and experience production taking place at an overlapping public of its participants private positions. Not only presenting but inviting, even drawing in other personal positions together at the public space of our own researches. Being challenged with public questions out of focus. The famous "big YES" we offered to others served as the building block of the public formation. Yet no one refrained from their own interests or foci; an attendance to proposals with personal positions resulted in amalgam of positions. We arrived at a public. This makes me think about the whole process of a.pass to share, in a sense to make public a research process of personal interest. How do we make a proposal visible, attend-able, sharable?
The observation exercise paved the way from the indoors discussion of the first day to public space and to come up with proposition ideas. But it needed a big step from observations to actual proposals. What could have been another step between these two to set up intervention propositions?
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