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  • URBAN PERIPHERIES WORKSHOP / Part 1. Helsink/Espoo

    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.

    Maximum number of students: 8 MA students from Design for the performing Arts (Scenography) Aalto University, 8 MA students from Visual Culture and Contemporary Arts Aalto University, 8 MA students from Swedish Acting MA Programme and/or MA Dramaturgy students Theatre Academy UniArts, 8 students from Universitet der Kunste Berlin


    Urban Peripheries Workshop I Helsinki/Espoo

    (2-3 weeks in Spring 2019, 2-3 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 WORKSHOP 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


    get-together dinner sunday 10 feb



    In autumn term 2019 the course continues with:

    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 10 days in Berlin (end of week 49 + week 50: workshop with the Universität der Künste/UdK students)

    Schedule: Teaching 3.-5.12. 2019 at the Learning centre (Ilmari) and 7.-15.12. in UdK Berlin. 

    Credits: 2 cr


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    maiju.loukola@aalto.fi