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Elise Misao Hunchuck is a transdisciplinary researcher, editor, writer, and educator based in Berlin and Milan. Her research practice employs cartographic, photographic and text-based methods to document, explore, and archive co-constitutive relationships between materials, resources, infrastructures, natural processes, humans and more-than-humans. Elise is a senior researcher and lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture in London, an editorial board member for the journal Scapegoat Journal: Architecture / Landscape / Political Economy and the editorial curator for transmediale, the festival for digital art and culture in Berlin. Elise also co-leads the architectural design studio ADS7 at the Royal College of Art in London. Her writing has been featured in The Funambulist, The Avery Review, and Flash Art. Her editorial work has been published with Sternberg Press, Archive Books, and Edinburgh University Press.

Marco Ferrari is an architect, researcher and educator based in Milan. He is co-founder of Studio Folder, an agency for visual and spatial research working across the editorial, digital and exhibition domains, while pursuing autonomous research paths that explore the politics of representation and territory. Together with Andrea Bagnato and Elisa Pasqual, Marco co – authored A Moving Border. Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change, published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City and ZKM Karlsruhe, a publication based on Studio Folder’s long-term project ​‘Italian Limes’. Between 2011 – 13 he was the Creative Director of Domus magazine and, from 2007-11, a regular graphics editor for Abitare magazine. Since 2010, he has taught at ISIA Urbino and has previously taught at IUAV University, Venice, and Columbia GSAPP, New York. Together with Elise Misao Hunchuck and Jingru (Cyan) Cheng leads the architectural design studio ADS7 at the Royal College of Art in London.

The workshop looks at historical precedents belonging to European sculpture and Art History, the current status of Architectural production and the Museum as a new platform for creative outcome.
A rethinking of an hybrid production infrastructure that needs to optimize current tools and present emergencies. 

Armature Globale by Luigi Alberto Cippini

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Artefacts can be cultural geographies if explored through the invisible technical, cultural, social, and geopolitical systems behind their existence. Preserved by museums, artefacts from different cultures, places, and time periods. Made of different materials and techniques, artefacts are starting points to understand our global history. And, most importantly, to critically question some urgent aspects of our shared reality.

Martina Muzi (IT, NL)

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Godofredo Enes Pereira is an architect and researcher based in London. Godofredo graduated as architect from FAUP (Porto), he holds a master’s in architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture and has completed his PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University. For the past decade, he has been researching, publishing and exhibiting on environmental architecture and collective politics. He is currently developing research on the Lithium Triangle across Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, and Portugal and investigating the importance of exhumations for political communities’ capacity to reimagine their relation to the earth in the context of conflicts over resource extraction in Latin America. He is the Head of Programme for the MA Environmental Architecture and the MA City Design at the Royal College of Art.

The program develops nanotourism case studies in close collaboration with local stakeholders and seeks to reveal hidden aspects of a particular context by establishing new synergies between the specificities of the place, its users, and locally available materials.

Buro Belén will work and guide using their holistic philosophy stimulating research, collaborating with materials, working from a multi-dimensional point of view. Belén entices people to make ethical choices while embracing an all-inclusive scenario, from sustainable material development to researching potential production processes.

Buro Belén (NL)

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During the workshop the participants will explore the relationship between man and animals through artistic representation, design, and architecture. The process should help us re-evaluate the extremely anthropocentric matrix in which we have shaped the global habitat.

Parasite 2.0 (IT, UK)

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The Untold River is a hands-on workshop that revolves around the making of a river-powered printing press. This ​“relational object” engages with the physical force of the river and is the key to inviting people into relation with the river. Together, participants will design and build the printing press, including the mechanism, handmade fonts, printing furniture, mobility, and the flow of how the object works in public.

Future Farmers (USA, BE)

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Plastic refers to materials of which the form is evolutive. In fact, form and material are inherently connected in the word itself, originating in the Greek word plastikos referring to something capable of being shaped or moulded.

Studio Plastique (BE)

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Yassine Ben Abdallah is a designer and researcher from La Réunion, based between The Netherlands and France. His work focuses on unearthing the unheard stories of colonialism, more specifically, the historical and contemporary ramifications and resonances of colonial violence. He holds an MA in GEO-Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven and degrees from Sciences Po, Paris. In the framework of his work, his multi-disciplinary research raises societal questions around issues of heritage, cultural identity and belonging. Currently, he is exploring the disappearance of material archives of La Réunion’s sugar plantations.

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Giuditta Vendrame (IT, NL)

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Stories are attached to made objects through aesthetics, functionality, craftsmanship and heritage. Designed to reinforce cultural and political narratives, they are produced to carry meaning just as much as purpose. In this workshop, using a range of research and investigation techniques, we will take a critical look at the objects in the Museum’s collection and explore ways in which they can be employed for understanding and addressing the urgencies of today.

Irakli Sabekia (GE/NL)

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What stories are being told and untold through objects? What do we know and not know when we engage with wooden artifacts?

Giuditta Vendrame (IT, NL)

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Margarida Mendes is a curator, educator and activist based in Lisbon. Her work explores the overlaps between infrastructure, ecology, experimental film, and sound practices. She was part of the curatorial team of the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), and 4th Istanbul Design Biennial (2018). In 2019 she launched Plant Revolution! an exhibition investigating different technological mediations of the interspecies encounters. Margarida is consultant for environmental NGOs working on marine policy and deep sea mining and has directed several educational platforms, including the research platform The World In Which We Occur/​Matter in Flux. She is also a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London and a frequent collaborator of the online channel for exploratory video and documentary reporting Inhab​i​tants​-tv​.org.

Where do metals come from? Are they the result of a bombardment of meteorites, added to our planet by lucky coincidence? How did the journeys of metals as traded goods change over time? And as we are facing a planetary exhaustion of resources, how will we source, displace, and use metals in the future?

Johanna Seelemann (DE, IS)

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Mood boards are very common in design practices but their potential as a research practice is often overlooked. This workshop reworks the use of mood boards as a collaborative research method.

Floriane Misslin (UK)

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Hannah Meszaros Martin is an artist, filmmaker and extremely skilled writer. She holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London where with her project La Tierra Proscrita she investigates the criminalisation of the coca plant and the impact such process has had on the Material/​Political/​Cultural landscape of contemporary Colombia. Hannah is currently Research Fellow at Forensic Architecture (FA) office, for which she has been collaborating since 2012, and Head Researcher for the The Colombian Commission for Truth and Clarification. She has exhibited solo works in Medellín, London, documenta(13), and Manifesta13 (Marseille). Hanna has published with the Journal of Political Ecology, Journal of Visual Cultures, Open Democracy, Third Text and Different Skies, a publication that she also co-founded in 2012.

Sommerschool curated by Formafantasma

When children play, they introduce content into the context: their surroundings take on symbolic value. The meaning associated with the place depends on the players’ actions. Playgrounds should be sequences of open stimuli that accompany the movements of families and to which children give meaning, either on their own or in a horizontal interaction with one another and with adults. 

Izaskun Chinchilla Moreno (ES)

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Festivals are spaces of collective experimentation. New dimensions are created by ephemeral projects that incubate moods and forms of sensibility that last beyond the time of the event. During the workshop, ​‘The Museum as a Festival’, participants will explore the interlace of musical, artistic, and environmental aspects to contemplate the present and the future in an innovative way. The purpose is to create a space where an event, limited in time, could have the potential to transform temporary works of art in durable and meaningful representations. This would change the perspective of the museum experience from a static interaction to a more dynamic exchange.

Terraforma Festival, Ruggero Pietromarchi (IT)

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The 2022 conference of the research network ​„Pioneers of Design Education. New Perspectives on German Schools of Decorative Arts before the Bauhaus“ hosted by the Design Campus, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, in cooperation with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, sheds light on the global history of design education, beginning with London and Vienna, extending the focus from wider Europe to Russia, India, China and the United States. The history of the Schools of Decorative Arts is a history of connections, exchange and mobility of people and ideas that can still inspire us today.

How to attract a Fridays for Future Generation and discount focussed society and make a step to the 21st century with Figurines? What are the issues of our time and can we create figurines and characters that suit us today?

Blickwechsel: Chiharu Shiota und das Wechselspiel von Innen und Außen, Sammlung Schenkung Hoffmann: Mehr hier

Spoon Archaeology, Deutschland-Beitrag von Kai Linke und Peter Eckart zur London Design Biennale 2021: Mehr hier

Jean-Pierre Latz. Fait à Paris, Einblicke in das Forschungs- und Restaurierungsprojekt: Mehr hier

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