SESSIONS is exposing the work in progress, as process being an important part of the final outcome of any project. The sessions are investigations of reading the significance of places, explore the tools and methods in doing so and follows the making of the proposal for a design intervention.
design sessions @ Kunsthal
The workshop addresses the need for various tools in a design process and approaches the topic via a site which is best known by the students and stuff of Kunsthal - forgotten-field on left of the building. The workshop invites to participate in the exploration of what is the identity of the place, collaboratively think of the potential use of the space, interact and re-discover.
The participants of the collaborative design sessions explore an existing place next to Kunsthal Irun to think of the flexible usage of public spaces and shared places in order to contribute to the usage of the space by taking steps towards ownership. And most importantly be part of something new happening around school for their own use.
The participants of the collaborative design sessions explore an existing place next to Kunsthal Irun to think of the flexible usage of public spaces and shared places in order to contribute to the usage of the space by taking steps towards ownership. And most importantly be part of something new happening around school for their own use.
INTERVENTION
The intervention formed ideas and thoughts about the usage of the site into a real action. The arrangement of the temporary furniture was considering various relaxing options, students took initiative to arrange the pallets for common sitting area. At the end of the day, the sun was setting and could shine to the content faces of the participants enjoying the result of common action on a site which 10 days earlier did not seem to be in anybody`s interest. Hopefully, the design sessions which culminated with the intervention could be a catalyst to inspire young designers to take action and use the potential of the site driven from their own needs.
Photographical documentation by Bitamine Faktoria International Residency Programme 2014
On 22 and 29 of October :: collaborative session with an aim to think of a potential use of the existing site next to Kunsthal.
SESSION #2
SESSION #1
EXPLORED Places
The map displays places with a good potential for design intervention in Irun.
"The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference" - Edward T. Hall