2014

IC Uneven Growth: Vienna Workshop

The Vienna Workshop was the last one in the series of working events related to MOMA and MAK Exhibition Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities during June 2014

Leading to a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in collaboration with the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, the last workshop and a major conference related to Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities was in Vienna, 10-14 June, 2014.

In 2030, the world’s population will be a staggering eight billion people. Of these, two-thirds will live in cities. Most will be poor. With limited resources, this uneven growth will be one of the greatest challenges faced by societies across the globe. Over the next years, city authorities, urban planners and designers, economists, and many others will have to join forces to avoid major social and economical catastrophes, working together to ensure these expanding megacities will remain habitable.
To engage this international debate, Uneven Growth brings together six interdisciplinary teams of researchers and practitioners to examine new architectural possibilities for six global metropolises: Hong Kong, Istanbul, Lagos, Mumbai, New York, and Rio de Janeiro.

Uneven Growth seeks to challenge current assumptions about the relationships between formal and informal, bottom-up and top-down urban development, and to address potential changes in the roles architects and urban designers might assume vis-à-vis the increasing inequality of current urban development. The resulting proposals will consider how emergent forms of tactical urbanism can respond to alterations in the nature of public space, housing, mobility, spatial justice, environmental conditions, and other major issues in near-future urban contexts.

Urban Case Study Teams
New York: Situ Studio, New York, and Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra), Rotterdam
Rio de Janeiro: RUA Arquitetos, Rio de Janeiro, and MAS ETH Urban Design, Zurich
Mumbai: URBZ, Mumbai, and Pop Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
Lagos: NLÉ Architects, Lagos, and Inteligencias Colectivas, Madrid
Hong Kong: MAP Office, Hong Kong, and Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University, New York
Istanbul: Superpool, Istanbul, and Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée, Paris

MoMA, in collaboration with the MAK announced the final workshop of Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities. The resulting proposals will be presented at MoMA in November 2014, and at MAK in June 2015.

The six interdisciplinary teams prepared exhibition design content at the MAK in a workshop open to student participation. A public presentation of the results was held on 14 June, 2014 with a keynote lecture by Ricky Burdett, LSE Cities, London.

The workshop was accompanied by a conference and discussion with the curator Pedro Gadanho, MoMA and international respondents Alice Rawsthorn, International New York Times, London; Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, MAK; Elke Krasny, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; and Hani Rashid, Asymptote Architecture, New York, held on 11 June, 2014.

Participants collaborated with the six exhibition teams in preparing the final design content for the exhibition’s urban case studies—Hong Kong, Istanbul, Lagos, Mumbai, New York, Rio de Janeiro. The workshop was held 10–14 June, 2014.

The Lagos Team and the students that joined the group worked all together to apply different systems and detail the application of different structure and materials learnt from Lagos urban and social context related to three main topics: WATER, ENERGY and TRANSPORTATION.

Thanks to all collaborators in the workshop, special thanks to Vienna MAK workshop participants Anna, Ehsan, Marlene, Leila and Hsiang Max.

 

2013

Uneven Growth at MoMA

Zoohaus and Inteligencias Colectivas are going to participate in next Exhibition Uneven Growth at MOMA Museum of Modern Art in New York!
We are very excited to announce that Zoohaus and Inteligencias Colectivas are going to participate in next Exhibition at MoMA Museum of Modern Art in New York City "Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities" On 26th October some members of Zoohaus team will be in MoMA PS1 in New York for the Uneven Growth Launch, we invite you all to join us! "In 2030, the world’s population will be a staggering eight billion people. Of these, two-thirds will live in cities. Most will be poor. With limited resources, this uneven growth will be one of the greatest challenges faced by societies across the globe. Over the next years, city authorities, urban planners and designers, economists, and many others will have to join forces to avoid major social and economical catastrophes, working together to ensure these expanding megacities will remain habitable. To engage this international debate, Uneven Growth brings together six interdisciplinary teams of researchers and practitioners to examine new architectural possibilities for six global metropolises: Hong Kong, Istanbul, Lagos, Mumbai, New York, and Rio de Janeiro. Following on the same model of the MoMA exhibitions Rising Currents and Foreclosed, each team will develop proposals for a specific city in a series of workshops that occur over the course of a 14-month initiative. Uneven Growth seeks to challenge current assumptions about the relationships between formal and informal, bottom-up and top-down urban development, and to address potential changes in the roles architects and urban designers might assume in the evolution of cities. The resulting proposals, which will be presented at MoMA in November 2014, will consider how emergent forms of tactical urbanism can respond to alterations in the nature of public space, housing, mobility, spatial justice, environmental conditions, and other major issues in near-future urban contexts." Organized by Pedro Gadanho, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design. Urban Case Study Teams: New York: Situ Studio, New York, and Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra), Rotterdam Rio de Janeiro: RUA Arquitetos, Rio de Janeiro, and MAS Urban Design ETH, Zurich Mumbai: URBZ, Mumbai, and Pop Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge Lagos: NLÉ Architects, Lagos, and Inteligencias Colectivas, Madrid Hong Kong: MAP Office, Hong Kong, and Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University, New York Istanbul: Superpool, Istanbul, and Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée, Paris Uneven Growth Launch at MoMA PS1 The workshop phase of Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities launches with public presentations and a moderated discussion at MoMA PS1. The six interdisciplinary teams will give brief presentations of previous work and discuss their preliminary approaches to the Uneven Growth project brief. The presentations will be followed by a discussion moderated by curator Pedro Gadanho, with respondents. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP to adevents@moma.org. Saturday, October 26, 2013, 2:30 p.m. *Image by Americasroof uploaded at en.wikipedia Permission CC-BY-SA-2.5.
2013

IC Princeton Lecture-Class. Experimenting the bleach bottle light bulb invention.

IC was invited by Urtzi Grau to give a Lecture-Class at his teaching department at the Princeton University School of Architecture
Inteligencias colectivas was invited by Urtzi Grau to give a Lecture-Class at his teaching department at the Princeton University School of Architecture Envelope Group, headed by Alejandro Zaera-Polo and coordinated by him.For this special occasion we collaborate with Fran Gallardo, Spanish architect , studying and working on NYC with the Enviromental Health Clinic Lovely Princeton Campus. We were not happy enough with the assignment from Urtzy and propose him to make an little instant practical research with the students. For this investigation we decided to get deeper on the gutter invention super media spread over the world,  the Bottle Light. This  non electric light bulb made of plastic bottles filled with water and a tiny bit of bleach  have amaze to every person who see it. It is very fun to discover that many people only have seen the pictures related to this project and not reed the text. The invention is not making that a bottle of water and bleach gives light, like many people think. It´s is making that the sun light could enter dark spaces by embedding it on the roof. The bleach dissolved on the water filling the bottle make that the light reflects much more because of the bleach Cristal reflection properties, so that the normal flux of light passing trough the hole icreases, lighting up the room like an electric bulb, in 360º sphere radiation. Collecting the Material for the instant lab with professional collectors We were investigating 2 different things. On one hand the percentage of bleach dissolved on water formula and on the other specific reconfiguration possibilities of the bottle groups. The lab consist on 3 basic elements: + A riding lamp surrounded by a cardboard + A thick cardboard with the bottles embedded + Electronic devices to measure light radiation. Reflex digital Photographic camera light sensor and iPhone light sensor app. We came to a conclusion on one of the experiments, the proportion of beach and water that gives more light is 18% of beach dissolution. Thank you very much to everyone on the student group for the super fast 2 hours lecture-practical experiment-class.
2012

I.C. Berlin Lecture

“The Dinosaur and other pets” on “Performing Politics” by "Institut für Raumexperimente" at the “The World Is Not Fair – Die Grosse Weltausstellung 2012″
PERFORMING POLITICS is a series of events. talks, spontaneous workshops, social and perceptual experiments, the main focus of which is the grey areas between art and architecture and their critical spatial practices operating at different levels, scales, and interactive modes. As space practioners activating space… In light of the 2012 post-utopian crisis… Because we live in a feeling without…. Inteligencias Colectivas gave the lecture of “Dinosaur and other pets” as a new way to reinvent ourself, another chance to look inside and evaluate the process with all the participants of the meeting. And we found this very important because the procedure of the lecture that is being developed is such a success format for us. It is not just giving a lecture but discussing with all the interested people at the same time that you are sowing your project, such an interesting discussion appears in different moments of the lecture so that it forces the discourse to be evolving as the areas of interest of the participants came up. We are very proud and honoured to be in such an interesting meeting and it is very motivating for us to be part of this experience ( or should I say experiment). Thank you very much to all the organizers for the amazing work but specially to Alvaro Urbano and Eric Elligsen. Here is another amazing moment of the meeting with the Geo-Political Paella by Daniel Fernández Pascual from DECONCRETE ( a brother blog investigating the most impressive urban process around the world)
2012

I.C. Berlin Begins

This week begins IC Berlin. We will be searching "intelligences" and potential miniprototypes all week around the city.
This week begins IC Berlin. We will be searching "intelligences" and potential miniprototypes all week around the city. We will upload all the edited information founded on the route. The project is part of the workshop "Performing Politics" curated by Eric Elligsen and Alvaro Urbano. This workshop forms part of "The World Is Not Fair - Die Grosse Weltausstellung 2012", as part of the Institut für Raumexperimente program, organized by Raumlabor and Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin Tempelhofer Feld. "Performing Politics" will take place in the Balloon Pavilion (see map below) on 7 and 8 June. Inteligencias Colectivas platform present the proyect inteligenciascolectivas.org with the lecuture "Dinosaur and other pets" on Thursday 7 of June in the pavilion at 18:45. During the two days we shared the stage with Ivan Argote, Petrit Halilaj, Klara Hobza, Something Fantastic, Luz Broto, Todo por la Praxis, Phillip van Wolputte and Deconcrete. See you there!!