Urban Body Trans*plant

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To investigate how the architect and de-signer can identify and suggest simple transformations of the urban space to improve everyday life. The workshop Ur-ban Body Trans*Plant is a performative investigation on the psycho-geographic reading of the city’s urban spaces.

The goal is to enlighten the image and perception of the city by the exist-ing connections between its inhabit-ant (local/tourist) and its urban fabric. Through a series of informal installa-tions and performative constructions, the conditions and relationship of the city were delimited by connecting the participants to each other and to the tourist or local resident of Cadiz. The workshop studied the contrasts of the city by trans*planting along and across the ‘beaten’ path of the local and that of the tourist, missing up Cadiz’s ‘body’ pieces, blurring the edge through a dia-logue between the trans*plant and the host space.

The theme of EASA011- Cadiz, is de-COASTruction; our interest immedi-ately went to the questioning of the ‘functional’ urbanism and it’s relation to the urban life style. Statutory planning seemed to comply with preexisting con-ditions: cars, commerce, tourism, where “play” is absent from any concerns. We wanted to prospect in this fi eld; how ar-chitects, designers, artists can identify urban discontinuities and suggest sim-ple transformations of the urban space to enrich everyday life through modes of unsolicited actions of play & perfor-mance.

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The investigative performance was ar-ticulated in a playful manner in or-der to format our personal predefi ned perception, triggering the use of our 5senses. These guerilla style games connected the surrounding to our sen-sations; measured by time, distance, illumination levels, density of usage, points of interest(tourist) and points of necessity(local). Thus exploring and questioning the urban design through the performance of the user, to better understand the relation between archi-tecture, urbanity and human experi-ence.

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This informed a new spatial and sensorial fabric which the participants, in groups, studied through a series of guerrilla experiments - serving as temporary 24hr installations in Cadiz Old-town.

These micro infrastruc-tures created a new type of territory, one that ‘ampli-fi ed’ the urban perception. The workshop discovered an interacting space that involved and connected the public to the performer-us-er; and more importantly to their sensorial perception.

The workshop then trans*planted this ‘ur-ban amplifi er’ into the scenography of the fi nal closing party, taking the form of a sensorial cloud. Taking 72hours from de-sign through to completion, this suspend-ed structure hung in and over the entire EASA Assembly of 500+ people during the fi nal presentations.

Finding its inspiration from local news headlines reading- ‘attack of the umbrel-las.’ This cloud of red rope intimately bellowed with the user’s sensorial per-ceptions, materialising and amplifying a continuous spatial condition inherent in all Cadiz, one indifferent of spatial, psy-chological and statutory limits.

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disassociation body from sound

blind strolling heightening perception of the urban fl ow

blind strolling

urban twister: vital spaces of the body in balance

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6 feet 2 eyes

mildness thought - Colegio Campo del Sur

...do you come here often? - C/ San Don

portal study I: jumping the ‘void’ - Parque Genovés

preliminary light sketching - Plaza Palillero

strolling with the skyline...

suspension installation study - Parque Genovés

study I: deconstruction of geometries - Parque Genovés

portal study II: from sketches to portals - cerca C/ Rosario

portal study III: lightlife - cerca C/ Rosario

lightscaping...

jump of alice / opening spaces - Parque Genovés

studies: shadows in the wind

Study: guidelines to good living - pop up interior - calle sin nombre

study II: deconstruction of geometries

enlightening potential use of the space

A structure evolving through play - Plaza Palillero

urban amplifi er: sensorial cloud initiating active behaviour

photo credit. Alexandra Kononchenko photo credit. Anastasia Kuzi

a memory of cadiz intimately bellowing, materialising...

photo credit. Alexandra Kononchenko

...the skin of the umbrella

(Left to Right) Kjersti Bjerke Hagen, Jan Fisher, Andrei Musetescu, Jack William Taylor, Maria Economides, Martina Hatzenbichler, Giorgos

Kyriazis, Martina Soi Gunelas, Liv Framgard, Josh Broomer, Wernard du Toit and Anna rizou. (absent) Antonio Pina and Carolina S

Kjersti Bjerke Hagen, Jan Fisher, Andrei Musetescu, Jack William Taylor, Maria Economides, Martina Hatzenbichler, Giorgos

Kyriazis, Martina Soi Gunelas, Liv Framgard, Josh Broomer, Wernard du Toit and Anna rizou. (absent) Antonio Pina and Carolina Streber.

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ParticipantsKjersti Bjerke Hagen

Josh BroomerMaria Economides

Liv FramgardJan Fisher

Martina HatzenbichlerGiorgos Kyriazis

Andrei MusetescuAntonio Pina

Anna rizouMartina Soi Gunelas

Carolina StreberWernard du Toit

Jack William Taylor

photo credit. Jesús Díaz Osuna

TutorsJames Brazil

César Daoud

Guest Tutor

Susanna Tesconi

Redline Tutors

Natalija Boljsakov

Brian Miller

Program Facilitator

Paul Brogna, UrbanBuddy

Workshop Assistants

Linda Kathrin

Christopher Lee Dale

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