Maria Manic Mega Mechanic

Touch the space, catch the light!

DAV / Vis str. connected to ”Invisible space”

26-30. April 2010

by Eva Kun

Short tasks:

Touch the space!

Fine a -for you- valuable space at BAS (inside or outdoor)

Examine it, look at it different ways and make drawings showing different values, what you have discovered.

Touch it! Show it by a simple action.

Catch the light!

Use the same kind of process as already described.

Catch, capture light you find (preferentially natural light) and show it.

Main task:

Sensual meeting space for 2 persons.

Find your preferred place at the school.

Choose a main kind of activity for the meeting.

Special focus: space qualities like size (narrowness, height, wideness…) light, openness / closeness, materiality and additional important qualities related to the selected activity.

(It is not a matter of decoration but of fundamental spatial qualities.)

Reinforce existing qualities, complement, add or take away, clean, mark… etc.

Show the space, do it visible and demonstrate the use.

Output: Show the real works at reviews - not models.

Main task: Use at least body size, preferentially size related to architecture.

Your process is important as well as the result. By taking part in each others reviews you can learn a lot and help your colleagues. So, it is important that all of you are really active during the whole process, all the week!

Schedule:

Monday: Intro, lecture, questions, start working

Tuesday: Morning meeting, short review, individual talks

Wednesday: Morning meeting, working individually

Thursday: Morning meeting, working individually

Friday: Individual work, 13.15 final review

Please note: Times for the short reviews (in between) can be changed during the course.

We start every morning at 9.15!

Please meet precisely!

You will need some simple equipment to make drawings and maybe for building / constructing like a hammer, nails, screws, marking materials and probably something more. We don´t know yet what. You should be observant for free materials and possibilities in general.

You should expect to work intensively at school all this week.

Friday we keep on until the review is completed.

I will be at BAS available for you every day this week.

Enjoy your work!

Eva

E-mail: art@evakun.no

For sms: 911 31 978

Present Process at Phase 3 + Getting Physical

My previously mentioned thoughts had a theme on contrast and daylight.
But when my site at BAS collided with Mari Laupsas plans, I though I´d reconsider.

So I remembered that the important issue for my user-partner with low vision, mainly are the visibility of level differences, exampled at the Galleriet Shopping Centre.
Adding to this - my wish of making BAS more nice on the public face, and thank you Vibeke for pointing out some interesting/connecting artists to check out (namely Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian

Process Early at Phase 3

These attached pictures depict the thoughts I had earlier in the Phase 3 work.
My thoughts was connected to the idea of contrasts, daylight filtering and further use of my element and material.

Please also check the next post that shows the present thoughts related to a new situation on the eastern facade and public face of BAS.

Invisibles working on the studio!

Site plan - exhibition 6th May

The empty corner at BAS

This is where I'm going to build my membrane.

Working in the studio

Inspiration for PHASE4?

hello,

I mentioned on the session earlier today that there has been buildings erected by students at BAS earlier. Check the enclosed photos for an idea of what have been done.
The pictures are from my 2nd grade and the course "Urban Shelter" with Finnish architect Sami Rintala in June 2006.

Please have a look at even more pictures at my Flickr-account on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brynlund/

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Finally!!!! My first time...

Last monday, I finally met my user for the first time.

His name is Kurt and he has once been a journalist, he worked on the NRK radio station, he had his own company to help dogs with physic problems and now he's working on a church.

Kurt is blind since birth but he never went to a school for blind people. He studied physiotherapy.

I met his dog too... I can't pronounce his name but it means "The East" in norwegian.

My "user" had 3 dogs and he said that there is not a perfect dog but there is not a perfect owner either.

About the "East" he said: "He is a dog worker that loves is work. He loves to think and he thinks very much!"

Kurt loves the sound of the birds and he hates the sound of children crying. His favorite thing in the world is travel with his wife and his two children. They use to go to the mountains to a little brick house in the middle of the forest.

We talked about music (he plays the guitar), books, travels, food, hobbies, dogs... I felt really comfortable with the conversation and he gave to me a lot of new ideas.

I could talk about a million things that he said to me but I don't think that would be interesting...

The key words about the conversation are: inside/outside, free/not free, walls, water, birds and lightness/darkness. I'm working with this all...

The only thing that I felt that Kurt feels sad about is when he needs to find a job. He said that people don't think that blinds are capable to do the same things that the others.

Now I understand what I lost in this process...Now I understand why I felt lost... You can say whatever but now I'm sure that it is impossible to do this work and this course without the guidelines of someone that knows how it is to live in a world that sometimes can be very selfish.

Here are some photos of the "situation" :)

ps: Thanks Maria for coming with me and doing the translation part when it was necessary!

Final Invitiation

Planning on making this in a folder. Doblesided prints.

The two frames on the top are back and front,
and the lower frames are page 1 and 2.

Henrik

Invitation to Membrane exhibition May 6 th

Planning on sending this out by regular mail tomorrow, give me feedback if you have any. Planning on doing one in English as well. Oh, and I need the adresses for all the collaborators.

Henrik

The Invisibles are Working

Process and inspiration (2)

Phase 3: membrane - thought process

Update Exhibition groups, schedule and meeting

Please note that the next meeting will be Wednesday at 12.00 in the Classroom.

Before the Architectural History at 14.15

Groups:

Invitation: Henrik+Luciana

Coordination: Henrik+Mari+Luciana+Harald

Plans, tactile markers: Therese+Marie

Understanding, signs: Maria+Navjeet+Bruno

Ramps, railings: Markus+Eirik+Chang+Gunvor

Subjects for next meeting:

-The different groups will present what they have planned, done and what they need help to do.

-Each of us must have an idea where the membrane will be placed in order to do finish plans and schedules.

-Bring your collaborators address for the invitations.

Schedule so far:

Invitations sent by 15th of April

RSVP to invisiblespacebas@gmail.com by 29th of April

Cleaning and tidying on 4th of May

5th of May:

10.00 Students meet for final preparation

11.00-17.00 Presentations, collaborators are invited

17.00-19.30 Vernissage for exhibition, collaborators families are invited, snacks and drinks

6th-9th of May Exhibition, principals from the Nordic Architecture Schools are here on the 6th and Marianne asked if we could have this in mind (we are away for the Charette during the weekend)

10th of May: Documentation and take down the exhibition

Please update this post if I forgot something or if the groups are changed

Gunvor

Presentation Phase 2 Element

here is my presentation from the crit on april the 7th.

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Presentasjon Phase 2

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Impress Me!

Impress Me

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Phase 3: membrane -May 5th presentation brainstorm

Following is what we decided from the brainstorming session this past friday. Nothing is concrete and we can shuffle responsibilities. We'll add a detailed list in class and discuss this monday.

Event: May 5th, Phase 3 - membrane

*Plan is to limit membrane installations to the ground floor and make all exhibits accessible. Also need accessible toilets (need to check teacher’s toilets next to the canteen to see if they are fit)

*Canteen is going to be the base

*Camilla has stressed that this event and inviting users is as important as the membrane

Membranes:

*need to also be aware of connections between each others exhibit, eg, like the game we play with Svien with all the objects next to each other - balance, communication...

Team 1: invitations [wed, April 14] - Luciana + Henrik + ...

-Info. on invites: presentations during day and exhibit afterwards, lunch, evening exhibit? Key scheduling.

Team 2: Program - Henrik +...

-program of the day - order

-canteen arrangements - drinks, food, bbq?

Team 3: accessibility - Markus + Eirik + Gunvor (already working with concrete and casting)+...

-ramps - guerrilla ramps - to be permanent even after the exhibition

-railings - where support is required

-assessment [mon, April 12] - what needs to be changed (on ground floor) in order to be made accessible

Team 4: plan - Therese, Mari (worked with ‘touch’ on study trip) +...

-plan - that users can understand and navigate through exhibits

-tactile markers - using existing universal design language to communicate

Team 5: signs/ understanding - Maria, Navjeet, Bruno +...

-signs: images, punjabi characters (Nav’s user) *keep all users in mind

-documentation; film the spaces that they will not see, eg. the spaces above ground floor

-this can be played during the exhibit in the canteen.

-1:50 model of the school

Team 6: Cleaning - Everyone

Phase 2: Element; Growing old in a foreign place

Phase 2 Pdf Pres

View more presentations from Navjeet.

Sensing in Barcelona during Easter break!

Part II-Element

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Part II-Element

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Phase 2 Element - Luciana Garcia

Phase2 Element - Luciana Garcia

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Phase 2 Collaborator And Element

Phase 2 Collaborator And Element

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Phase 2 Element - Henrik Matheson

Phase 2 Element Henrik Matheson

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Phase 2 Presentation Maria Claësson

Phase 2 Presentation Maria Claësson

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Movement Video from CPH

Carpet in 3D

Been studying carpets for a this phase. Nice how the patterns has so much spacial quality.

When a small object explains a wider context

Process and inspiration

What inspires me about my deafblind collaborator, Bent are Nielsen, is that he seems strong and grounded, happy and present. Even though he is considered legally blind, I constantly try to get an idea of how he still is able to see. During our collaboration I have not only tried to learn how a deafblind person gather information from the external environment, but also about the relationship between our brain and senses.

Most individuals who are deafblind are not completely deaf and completely blind. From what I have learned, there is a lack of understanding and awareness in the community of what deafblindness actually means. Through our senses we make new meanings of our environment, of ourselves, and people around us. With what kind of tools may we define that process of creating meaning?

Even though Bent are Nilsen is a man of relatively few words, he has this indescribable charisma that tells me a lot about him. I believe that his contentment has a lot to do with the fact that he is not alone. He lives with his dear partner, whom understands him, since she has similar abilities, and whenever he leaves the house, his dog or his assistant accompanies him. He seemed to have a strong relationship with his assistant.

I was thinking of using a material related to something in his past and to combine it with something from his present. To work in the industry with finger-sized pieces made him relax in the past, and it was a form of socializing as well. From what I learned during our material workshops the size and organization of things really made sense to his appreciation and understanding of things.

According to my collaborator, the understanding of an object or a surface is easy if it has got one type of tactile surface or material and one repetitive shape, consistence and temperature. However, if the object or surface has got two sides, he would find it interesting if they contrasted each other.

I started to think of organizing and structuring things, looking into some sources of inspiration. I started experimenting with different shapes that were abstract and representative of something bigger, in a sensory way. For example the shape of a seashell, that has an incredibly beautiful balance and contrast between the surface and smell of its outside and the gentle sound of wind and waves coming from its inside.

Working with objects and a surface with complementary sensory differences became my mission.

Study trip Copenhagen Gunvor, Markus and Henrik

Study trip Copenhagen Gunvor, Markus and Henrik

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Siris Thoughts

Siris Thoughts

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