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Atelier 7 Brief - 2008-2009
Atelier 7
Tea Lim, Tae Kim
Takeaway: prosthetics of urbanity
A city wall rests aside the hectic fabric of London.
With the body shattered and mostly erased,
feebly casting a nostalgia over its holistic days,
imparting bits of ancient wisdom and power in vain,
it remains slough-residues of urban dynamics.
Alone do I stand and face a fragment
to trace its forgotten messages from much of void and silence.
No longer a shallow sense,
but looking, listening, sniffing, savouring and caressing follow.
Before a comfortable reason reaches an image,
watching, staring, glimpsing, gazing and peeping,
without a prepared vision,
lead me to witnessing of lost potentials.
To my rather visceral greet,
it comes to embrace me as an urbane gesture.
We grow together in a fairly urban act…
Atelier 7 will continue exploring urban dynamics of London from commercial perspectives. This year we are tracing two phases of the city, Londinium defined by a Roman wall and a metropolis whose market forces transcend the territorial boundary. Taking both the notion of prosthetics and the culture of eating as key design mediums for refining the urban relation between them, we aim to procure inventive programmatic hybrids and spatial interfaces.
site:
fragments of London Wall
- the rudimentary: atrophied organs or still possibly functional instrument?
- objects/settings to ensure/accommodate physiological activities?
programme:
eating
- a liminal metabolism in broad commercial aspects of culture
cooking
- a minimal link between eating and discharging (cf. sleeping, wearing)
takeaway - portability, disposability
restaurant - a hub (2nd years) or a network (3rd years) of physiological activities
- production, distribution, consumption in relation to urbanism and urbanity
prosthetics: additional/substitutive device/mechanism/system, supporting your changing roles
term 1-1.
length: 3 weeks
premises:
wall as a material substance or historical object
you as a person (‘I’ eating as a human being, not a social individual)
prosthetics as a metabolic/physiological device
tasks: to identify the relation between you (body part) and a wall section
to design a prosthetic device for appreciating the wall section in relation to eating/cooking
on/against/beside/under the wall section
further discussion:
‘my’ identity based on what, how, where ‘I’ eat
sensory faculties involving in eating/cooking
architectural significance of olfactory and palate appreciation
group activity:
“Blind” restaurant (Dans le Noir) in Clerkenwell
products:
1:1 scale model of a prosthetics (whole/part)
drawings explaining its use - joining you and a wall section
documents (sketches, drawings) of investigation and design development
term 1-2.
length: 5 weeks
premises:
wall as a rudimentary organ - potentially generating a direction of eating
you as a cook and eater/customer - operator
prosthetics as a functional mechanism
tasks:
to design a takeaway kiosk - kinetic energy from your body (action, movement )
further discussion:
level of autonomy (sufficiency/viability) of a kiosk
a self-contained unit (to function basic)
a self-generating unit (to sustain itself)
a self-serving unit (to serve others)
mobility of a kiosk
portability of food, disposability of package
term 2.
length: 8 weeks
premises:
wall as an instrumental setting - additional/prosthetic programme (farming)
you as a farmer and cook
prosthetics as a spatial mechanism - connecting two programmes
tasks:
to refine spatial/prosthetic relations between a kiosk and a wall section
locate and position the kiosk
reposition the wall section or introduce another for accommodating a compact farm
detail the kiosk, considering the new programme (farming)
further discussion:
eating as a hybrid or transgression of physiological activities
built-environment in the service of production, distribution and consumption of metabolic
impulses
users’ roles in consumptive production, productive consumption
field trip:
Dubrovnik, Croatia
term 3.
length: 4 weeks
premises:
wall as gates/paths of urban networking - originally a divider of urban and rural cultures
you as a manager of a restaurant (and complementary programmes)
prosthetics as an urban/infrastructural system
tasks:
to connect wall fragments selectively in coordination with both programmes and (in)visible
boundaries of London
to choreograph users’ engagement
further discussion:
marketing tactics (advertisement, branding) on the dispersion/connection of programmes
commercial relations between urbanism and urbanity
sebsequent manners/modes of eating
intensity, duration, frequency of needs in comparison to luxury
contradictions evolving from the relation of a product/effect with a byproduct/side-effect
exhibition theme:
takeaway: surveillance is advertisement
references:
Certeau, M. The Practice of Everyday Life
Diller + Scofidio. Blur
Diller + Scofidio. Scanning
Lim, C. J. Sins (gluttony)
Tschumi, B. The Architectural Paradox in Architecture & Disjunction
Venturi, R. Learning from Las Vegas
Tea Lim, Tae Kim
Takeaway: prosthetics of urbanity
A city wall rests aside the hectic fabric of London.
With the body shattered and mostly erased,
feebly casting a nostalgia over its holistic days,
imparting bits of ancient wisdom and power in vain,
it remains slough-residues of urban dynamics.
Alone do I stand and face a fragment
to trace its forgotten messages from much of void and silence.
No longer a shallow sense,
but looking, listening, sniffing, savouring and caressing follow.
Before a comfortable reason reaches an image,
watching, staring, glimpsing, gazing and peeping,
without a prepared vision,
lead me to witnessing of lost potentials.
To my rather visceral greet,
it comes to embrace me as an urbane gesture.
We grow together in a fairly urban act…
Atelier 7 will continue exploring urban dynamics of London from commercial perspectives. This year we are tracing two phases of the city, Londinium defined by a Roman wall and a metropolis whose market forces transcend the territorial boundary. Taking both the notion of prosthetics and the culture of eating as key design mediums for refining the urban relation between them, we aim to procure inventive programmatic hybrids and spatial interfaces.
site:
fragments of London Wall
- the rudimentary: atrophied organs or still possibly functional instrument?
- objects/settings to ensure/accommodate physiological activities?
programme:
eating
- a liminal metabolism in broad commercial aspects of culture
cooking
- a minimal link between eating and discharging (cf. sleeping, wearing)
takeaway - portability, disposability
restaurant - a hub (2nd years) or a network (3rd years) of physiological activities
- production, distribution, consumption in relation to urbanism and urbanity
prosthetics: additional/substitutive device/mechanism/system, supporting your changing roles
term 1-1.
length: 3 weeks
premises:
wall as a material substance or historical object
you as a person (‘I’ eating as a human being, not a social individual)
prosthetics as a metabolic/physiological device
tasks: to identify the relation between you (body part) and a wall section
to design a prosthetic device for appreciating the wall section in relation to eating/cooking
on/against/beside/under the wall section
further discussion:
‘my’ identity based on what, how, where ‘I’ eat
sensory faculties involving in eating/cooking
architectural significance of olfactory and palate appreciation
group activity:
“Blind” restaurant (Dans le Noir) in Clerkenwell
products:
1:1 scale model of a prosthetics (whole/part)
drawings explaining its use - joining you and a wall section
documents (sketches, drawings) of investigation and design development
term 1-2.
length: 5 weeks
premises:
wall as a rudimentary organ - potentially generating a direction of eating
you as a cook and eater/customer - operator
prosthetics as a functional mechanism
tasks:
to design a takeaway kiosk - kinetic energy from your body (action, movement )
further discussion:
level of autonomy (sufficiency/viability) of a kiosk
a self-contained unit (to function basic)
a self-generating unit (to sustain itself)
a self-serving unit (to serve others)
mobility of a kiosk
portability of food, disposability of package
term 2.
length: 8 weeks
premises:
wall as an instrumental setting - additional/prosthetic programme (farming)
you as a farmer and cook
prosthetics as a spatial mechanism - connecting two programmes
tasks:
to refine spatial/prosthetic relations between a kiosk and a wall section
locate and position the kiosk
reposition the wall section or introduce another for accommodating a compact farm
detail the kiosk, considering the new programme (farming)
further discussion:
eating as a hybrid or transgression of physiological activities
built-environment in the service of production, distribution and consumption of metabolic
impulses
users’ roles in consumptive production, productive consumption
field trip:
Dubrovnik, Croatia
term 3.
length: 4 weeks
premises:
wall as gates/paths of urban networking - originally a divider of urban and rural cultures
you as a manager of a restaurant (and complementary programmes)
prosthetics as an urban/infrastructural system
tasks:
to connect wall fragments selectively in coordination with both programmes and (in)visible
boundaries of London
to choreograph users’ engagement
further discussion:
marketing tactics (advertisement, branding) on the dispersion/connection of programmes
commercial relations between urbanism and urbanity
sebsequent manners/modes of eating
intensity, duration, frequency of needs in comparison to luxury
contradictions evolving from the relation of a product/effect with a byproduct/side-effect
exhibition theme:
takeaway: surveillance is advertisement
references:
Certeau, M. The Practice of Everyday Life
Diller + Scofidio. Blur
Diller + Scofidio. Scanning
Lim, C. J. Sins (gluttony)
Tschumi, B. The Architectural Paradox in Architecture & Disjunction
Venturi, R. Learning from Las Vegas
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