Credits: 2

Schedule: 05.02.2019 - 20.02.2019

Teacher in charge (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

Liisa Ikonen

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation): 

RESPONSIBLE TEACHER AT AALTO ARTS

Maiju Loukola / maiju.loukola@aalto.fi

https://www.maijuloukola.space/

 

RESPONSIBLE TEACHER AT UdK

Gabi Schillig

http://www.gabischillig.de/

Teaching Period (valid 01.08.2018-31.07.2020): 

II-III

Details on the course content (applies in this implementation): 

This workshop aims at enlarging the understanding of peripheries/ peripherality into areas that are difficult to verbalize. Peripheries are conventionally conceived as marginal geographical locations, whereas we will explore peripheries as ambiguous and multifaceted phenomenon – as conceptual domain, aesthetically and spatially experienced sensory spheres and states of mind shaped by complex associations and mental images.

The workshop focuses on urban peripheries in two European capitol city areas. We will study different relations to 'peripherality' through practice and theory, and conduct a series of spatial interventions in urban/semi-urban space – in Helsinki/Espoo (Urban Peripheries I) and in Berlin (Urban Peripheries II). We will look into the spatial dramaturgies of everyday spaces and places, and create new narratives  related to physical sites, memories and dreams, and build on-site installations that intervene with the existing reality and re-write the sites anew.

Urban Peripheries Workshop I brings together 1)  interventional approaches, 2) experimental spatial and scenographic tactics, and 3) a play with shifting perspectives and scales, to create alternative means of "urban planning". We will explore, address, test and activate new policies for spatial practices that overcome the definitions delineating urban space much as a regulated administrative space. Through spatial interventions and fictionalising, we will create polycentric, experiential and imaginary maps in which centres and peripheries are in constant transformation.

 

URBAN PERIPHERIES WORKSHOP / Part 1. Helsinki/Espoo

 

URBAN PERIPHERIES WORKSHOP is a course exploring spatial interventions as artistic alternatives and strategies of urban transformation.


URBAN PERIPHERIES WORKSHOP consists of two parts:

Part I takes place at Aalto University/Aalto ARTS in Helsinki/Espoo in Spring 2019, and Part II takes place at UdK Berlin in Autumn 2019.

The workshop aims at enlarging the understanding of peripheries/ peripherality into areas that are difficult to verbalize. Peripheries are conventionally conceived as marginal geographical locations, whereas we will explore peripheries as ambiguous and multifaceted phenomenon – as conceptual domain, aesthetically and spatially experienced sensory spheres and states of mind shaped by complex associations and mental images.

We will study different relations to 'peripherality' through practice and theory. We will conduct a series of spatial interventions in urban space – in Helsinki/Espoo and in Berlin. We will look into the spatial dramaturgies of everyday spaces and places, and create new narratives related to physical sites, memories and dreams, and build on-site installations that intervene with the existing reality and re-write the sites anew.

Urban Peripheries Workshop I Helsinki/Espoo
(3 weeks in Spring 2019, 4-6 credits)

Urban Peripheries Workshop I brings together interventional approaches and experimental spatio-scenographic tactics to create alternative means of "urban planning". We will explore, address, suggest and activate new policies for spatial practices that overcome the definitions that delineate urban space as a much regulated administrative space. Through interventional exploration and fictionality, we will create alternative, polycentric and experiential maps in which centres and peripheries are in constant transformation.

URBAN PERIPHERIES Part I SCHEDULE:

Calendar week 6: Tuesday 5 Feb – Friday 8 Feb
- Tuesday 5.2. at 10.00-17.00: INTRODUCTION DAY (themes, texts, workshop scheduling, about collaborative methods, pre-assignment)
- Wednesday 6.2. - Friday 8.2. at 10-17: INDIVIDUAL & GROUP WORK with pre-assignment

Calendar week 7: Monday 11 – Friday 15 Feb
- 10.00–17.00 WORKSHOP AT AALTO ARTS: Aalto + TEAK + Universität der Künste (UdK) students

Calendar week 8: Monday 18 – Wednesday 20 Feb
- Monday 18 Feb at 10.00–17.00: FINAL PRESENTATIONS
- Tue 19 Feb - Wed 20 Feb at 10.00–17.00: Aalto and TEAK students' REFLECTION WORK

 

 
Urban Peripheries Workshop Part II in Berlin, in autumn 2019
is a 2-week course that consists of pre-workshop period at Aalto ARTS (beginning of week 49)
and a week in Berlin (end of week 49 + week 50: workshop in Berlin with the Universität der Künste/UdK students)
 
 
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