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UMA Competition for a Speaker’s Podium 2012

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UMA Competition Speaker’s Podium 2012 Brief For the UMA auditorium we need a professional speakers podium where lecturers can stand and address their talks. The speaker’s podium should foremost enact and stimulate a lively and engaging atmosphere between the lecturer and its audience, as well as help build a unique UMA atmosphere in the spatial constellation of the auditorium. The speaker’s podium gives the lecturer (and the person who introduces the lecture) a sense of safety in front of a live audience, and its virtual audience in front of a computer (the lecture is always live streamed over the internet by two live cameras), What counts is the action form (content) the speaker’s podium allows to emerge between speaker and audience, rather than the speaker’s object form itself. While being comfortable and technically well equipped, the speaker’s podium fulfils a representative function. All future public lectures, and many other UMA events and presentations, will be live streamed over Internet. The speaker’s podium is the ideal place to show that the lecture and the live stream are being broadcast from UMA. These are elements to be integrated into the podium. For more details, please refer to the complete programme of the competition brief below. Award Unique of this competition is that your winning proposal will be realised. The winning team is awarded the job of realising the podium. The building work should not interfere with the winning team’s other obligations at the school (study or work). The building of the podium will happen in close collaboration with the workshops expertise at UMA and if necessary the other art-campus workshops. UMA will pay the winning team build the podium (maximum of 70 man hours divided between the team members). The materials will be paid by UMA. In addition each member of the winning team will also be awarded a book gift. Calendar

- 3rd September the brief is announced and published. - 17th of September 2012, at 17.00 the latest the proposals are submitted to the UMA

jury. - 8 October the podium is realised for a first test run in the auditorium (3 weeks to built

the speaker’s podium) - 18th October starts the speaker’s podium professional life.

Submission All students and members of the staff can submit a proposal for the speaker’s podium. Each team should consist of two to four people. The team must be willing to and able to build the podium themselves. Members of the jury cannot submit proposals. The submitted posters should be pinned up in the foyer exhibition space before the deadline. Place the model below the poster on a timber stool. The names of the members of the team should be noted on the back of the submitted poster as not to be available to the jury at the assessment. The submission should consist of the following material:

- One A0 poster, portrait format explaining the design of the podium (refer to list of drawings). No oral presentation should be necessary.

- One model scale 1:10 of the podium

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List of drawings Dimensions and materials should be noted on all drawings.

- Site location plan 1:50 showing the podium in relation to the full auditorium. - Site plan 1:20 showing the location of the podium in detail. - Plans 1:5. Submit as many as required to explain the construction and functions. - Front elevation 1:5 - Back elevation 1:5 - Side elevations 1:5. Submit as many as required to explain the design. - Section 1:5 explaining the construction and functions. - Detail 1:2 or 1:1 explaining a joint, corner or functional detail

Programme of requirements The podium should fulfil the following requirements

- Cater for speakers of different heights. - Platform/holders for A4 lecture notes at a reading angle. - Horizontal laptop platform so that you can both simultaneously see and operate the

laptop during the lecture. - Location/platform/holder for glass of water and carafe/bottle. - Desk light so that the speaker can read notes in the dark - Microphone holder for the wireless microphone. - Storage for laptop bag or handbag. - Lockable drawer for suitcase with remotes, wireless microphones, cables, adaptors,

etc. Dimensions should be a minimum of w=40 cm, d=40 cm, h=12 cm. - The podium must be moveable in cases the auditorium is needed for other events. - Electronic connections (hidden, not in the way): 4 power plugs (220) on board,

connection for laptops to the video beamer (including sound, vga, etc.), Ethernet connection, HDMI connection, speakers light switch. (Safety hazard should be considered, tripping over cables etc.)

- UMA and university logo (UMA Laboratory of Architecture, Umeå University Sweden) at front of the podium.

- Hanging system/place for an A1 poster at front of podium. Required information

- Estimated material costs. - Material (all materials that can be worked in the Arts Campus workshops can be

used. Jury

- The jury consists of Peter Kjær, Håkan Hansson, Sven-Erik Hilberer, Mette Harder, Roemer van Toorn and Katrin Holmqvist.

Attachments to competition brief

- Plan of auditorium at 1:100 - Inspirational images - Logo of Umeå University.

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Some Inspiring images

Architect Frank Gehry invited by the corpoarte institute of National Building in the states. An official kind of (stiff) representation …

Rem Koolhaas at the opening of the new Russian Architecture School Strelka, Moscow. Its graphic design, the atmosphere represents the idea behind the institute…

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President Obama press conferences at the White House. Mediatic and representative. Providing good looks, authority …

Old fashioned, yes perhaps, atmospheric for sure, even absurd. Full of bravure, allure, engaging, provoking… (an invited speaker will for sure have a reaction…)

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Ready for the digital age, and it wants us to know its high tech (laptop and paper simultaneous accessible), flexible height, ….

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A closed front, you can hide behind it. It gives the speaker comfort…

Don’t forget that the podium should not block the view, but is part of a total presentation and action in front of an audience. It is about the whole picture, and the movement/walking of the speaker too. It must allow the projections (full screen) to be seen in the background.

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Space for all kinds of storage is a must

Propaganda for free, it’s a kind of pamflet place too…

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It can also have a modest presence, blend in the surroundings, become translucent

It helps stage the event, as if we are in theatre. The light conditions during the presentation should be taken in consideration too. Theatrical effects are part of its life.

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