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Architecture workshop
Architecture workshop
The people’s city: an emotional profiling of our city following sensations, perfumes, noises, but above all examining the relationship between the city and its inhabitants. The city embodies our idea of Nature, made up of incomplete, fragmented, divided images. A free itinerary through the city, marked by moments of reflection and memorisation of images realised with verbal, graphic and multimedia techniques.
Experiencing this city through emotions, feelings, sounds, aromas and, last but not least, its connection with people who live in it.
Theoretical support
By putting together images from different time periods you can capture a big picture view of what a city is actually like: how it’s organized, its streets, its open spaces and its buildings, interiors and exteriors, along with its limits which oppose and confront each other.
The limits are both open and closed, visible and invisible, regular and irregular, continuous and interrupted.
As a consequence, the modern way of viewing our world is constrained by our judgements of anything different from and contrasting to our usual surroundings.
Reality appears as a modern form of nature through fragmented images.
The adoption of a new and independent vision which challenges Platonism and its division of knowledge and artistic ways is a principle that excludes an imitation of nature (mimesis) and recognizes what is already known (anamnesis) and also does not resort to the mediation of aesthetics or feelings.
Visual information is far more than just identifying objects.
Interpretation of visual information is based on the direct vision of the observer who is free to observe the surrounding environment in whatever way he or she wishes.
Images are the documents of a city, and the interpretation of these documents depend on people’s different points of views and their ability to observe the world around them.
Exercise
Make four teams each formed by eight students (two from each nationality).
Each team needs to select a student who will become the referent who will be chosen by all the components of the team and which will need to include all the different nationalities (see below regarding final presentation in Brussels).
The group will start from the same place in the city …and will be free to walk around… with the referent deciding the path to take which will be marked on the map of the city.
Necessary equipment: map of the city (provided by the art school of Savona.), sketch book, camera*, video camera*, pieces of paper and a pen.
* can be a smartphone with a resolution of eight megapixels or higher.
Time: two 40-minute walks through the city, with a break, so the total time will be 90 minutes.
Procedure: At the moment of departure from Piazza Sisto IV, and after each ten-minute interval (after 10’, 20’, 30’ along with the arrival at 40’) one student will take three pictures, another will take a 30 second video, a third student will do a sketch and a fourth will describe the places with written notes.
The photos, videos, drawings and notes that the students take will include something that the student thinks are characteristic of the place (they can be general views or even tiny details of the city). The break will be for 10 minutes.
At the end all of the material will be collected by the school of the referent (one for school).
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