OTHER SPACES
THIS PLACE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK
Lasse Mouritzen
and Frida Robles
Love Canal
Elsa Bres
The Permanently Temporary
Cathy Smith and Natarsha Tezcan
A post-landscape handbook
Ed Wall
Tuning Space
Campbell Drake
Dear Testing Grounds / Fortuna Redux
Millie Cattlin and Joseph Norster
Evoke
Nic Quantock-Holmes
and Oli Brown
Mini Maddern
Public Realm Lab
Home as Hometown
DENARA - architecture studio
Glow: Monarch Lane
Christine Phillips and Tania Davidge
The Overlooked Chinese
Terrain Vague: On Culture, Urbanisation, and Resilience
Jiatong Shi, Jillian Walliss
More trains, more often –
soon, they promise
Yuchen Gao, Loren Adams, and Eugene Perepletchikov
DO YOU CARE?
Let’s reflect on the sea
Maria Pina Usai and Stefania Toro
Black Box Festival of Living
and Dying Art
Kyle Bush
Belfry
Jinjoo Yang
Togethering
Lena Heubusch, Susana Moliner, and
David Pérez
Drawing Fields
Outpost Office, Ashley Bigham, and Erik Herrmann
Kristall, The Domestication of Water
Daryan Knoblauch
The Field
Robert Snelling, Brittany Devlin, and
Kate Donaldson
Windflower
Urban Radicals
The Waste Archive
Jesus Meseguer, Javier Arias, Mireia Ferri, and Connie Meseguer
Modul #3070
DELACAVE Architectes | Architectural Think Tank
New York has a High Line,
Berlin has a Low Line
Studio ON/OFF
Dear Document Fukushima
Paribartana Mohanty
Mapping Future Memory
Eleanor Peres and mone studio
Sydney Biennale:
Cockatoo
Island
Philip crowther
Aqueous Landscapes
Ainslie Murray and Helen Lochhead
Other Spaces: Others' Spaces
Demet Dincer
Born to Die
Laura Syzman
Peripheral housing on the
urban wasteland of Chinese cities
Weijie Hu
Terrain Vague; Neighboring Damascus
Sara Adam
Not yet another web
Ioanna Sotiriou
Weeds’ Analogy: From Industrial Debris to Data
Urbanism
Kwan Q Li and Joel Austin Cunningham
Incompiuto (Unfinished)
Alterazioni Video
Togethering
by Lena Heubusch
LOCATION: MADRID, SPAIN
Togethering looks at the (re-) use of urban wastelands through the lens of activating community. How can we make a city, its neighbourhoods, the urban realm, places where our communities continue to grow and connect? How can we keep becoming community when our current urban spaces are continuously being monetised? Architect Ignasi de Sola Morales who coined terrain vague, states that today, intervention in the existing city, in its residual spaces, in its folded interstices can no longer be either comfortable or efficacious in the manner postulated by the modern movement’s efficient model of the enlightened tradition.
While not new in
its use, inflatable architecture, ephemeral architecture that uses the
propulsion of air as a means to shape temporary assemblages of varying size and
shape, it can prove rather effective in the creation of nomadic communal
places. They are spaces without structure that are generated by air, thus
achieving architectures in which what is not seen becomes the essence and the
space that is achieved is the maximum with the smallest enveloping surface. By
inflating the skin, a volume is created that can accommodate different uses.
This type of architecture allows changes in it thanks to its main material, air.
They are transportable designs, easy to assemble, disassemble and store, thanks
to the use of recycled plastic and textile materials, flexible and free from
many restrictions of traditional architecture, which serve as the basis for a
new design language that offers sustainable solutions and a fluid reuse of
materials and spaces.
This type of spatial intervention offers a form of freedom and adaptability that is expressed through experiential design. In this sense, it is a multi-purpose, ephemeral and personalised architectural space that can only be activated by nurturing the organic growth of local communities. The main purpose of such a space is to host events that enrich and connect local communities, may it be it through educational events in the Arts and Sciences, theatrical events (i.e. Theatre of the Oppressed), film screenings... the possibilities are endless.
CONTRIBUTORS
Ana Raquel Machava, Adriana C. Tarela, Talla Fall, Adam Hassan Saleh, Nasser Sokante, Patricia Alemany, Beatriz Lorenzo, José Hernández , Marina Benítez, Gema Marín, Sarah Durgali, Paula Jiménez, Yanelys Núñez, Diego Andrés Ramírez, Lucia Muñoz-Delgado, Artemisa Delmar Semedo, Elena Benito, Carmen de la Fuente, Maleny Cáceres, Lena Heubusch, Eva Gordo, Steve Zedong, Daniela Cardillo, Claudia Oliveira, Meryem Aboulouafa↩,
*Grigri Pixel 2019, is a programme organised by GriGri Projects↩ in collaboration with Medialab Prado↩