TRANS Practices – Instability _ Designing, Diverting, Narratives

The TRANS-Practices INSTABILITY International Summer School marked the final stage of the project to be developed throughout the spring semester, in the MPAA Master for Advanced Architectural Design Studios, Horror Vacui 1.0 Instability. During this event, the participants defined the final states of the research and developed a first version of the written publication. After two initial lectures (April 29th and May 6th), two weeks of in-person workshop (May 13th to May 27th) were used to intensify some previous research lines posed by the seminar students. The activity allowed each participant to propose his/her particular layout for the publication, using the overall texts produced during the seminar. During some sessions, the external students developed specific architectural projects where the notion of instability was applied to a design process.

What was the role of the LINA Fellows in this event?

Philip Kitzberger and Alessandro Pasero presented their work in a short lecture two weeks before the celebration of this workshop. The content of that lecture was an inspiring trigger to some of the architectural design projects developed during the international summer school, from domesticity and fragility as concepts to develop inhabitable spaces.

Giga Tsikarishvili and Tatuli Japoshvili (wit[h]nessing), and Rajna Avramova reviewed the texts developed by the MPAA students, and also checked some architectural design projects presented by the International Summer School students. They proposed a possible layout for the final written publication.

What was the role of TRANS at the event?

Nestor Montenegro, and Javier Mosquera, within the MPAA seminar structure, and as part of the International Summer Workshop activities, as representatives of the TRANS research group, guided the students through the design strategies. They helped them to implement some concepts and ideas related to the theoretical approach to the notion of Instability, specifically applied to architectural projects.

Designing, Diverting, Narratives by Wit[h]nessing (Giga Tsikarishvili and Tatuli Japoshvili)

Designing, Diverting, Narratives by Wit[h]nessing (Giga Tsikarishvili and Tatuli Japoshvili) Methodological approach to their work, showing some of their recent projects. Observation of the surroundings and questioning the Anthropocene human-centered vision as an obsolete and incomplete strategy to design. They posed two questions, as a specific task to the students of the seminar, as an exercise to respond through their methodology. To be checked and discussed during the next common activity.

From Space to Spatiality by Rajna Avramova As another concept related to instability the idea of messiness was defined as a tool to design from minor architectures. According to Jill Stoner, potentialities in common daily situation can be combined with fictional evidence as realities from alternative narratives.

Conclusions

Round table with seminar students, Jorge Angulo, Cristina Asla, Martina Carballo, Ivan Flores, Estefania Gutierrez, Mariana Olmos, Jose Pablo Rosas, Enmanuel Segueri, and Ayelen Zucotti; with LINA Fellows Giga Tsikarishvili and Tatuli Japoshvili (wit[h]nessing), Rajna Avramova, Philip Kitzberger, and Alessandro Pasero; with International Summer School students; and with seminar professors Nestor