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Occupation Game – to & to & to… traces the outlines of the space claimed by all artworks on exhibit in the Kunst Merano Arte space since its inauguration in six years ago. Through this, a mapping of the ‘history’ of the artistic occupation of the Kunst Merano Arte space is made, revealing in return what was never used or occupied.  |
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This project investigates large vacant urban areas - usually centrally located and strategically important - in nine emerging capitals of the Western Balkans. For a number of reasons and coincidences these sites have been ‘waiting' for decades - now they function as loopholes to catapult us into some of the most important dimensions of the local context.  |
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How is the future relation between curators, artists, audience, museum and city to be shaped? With Cut for Purpose, museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam gets a spatial tool to discover its new Street Gallery by literally carving out the potentials for it. As for each activity a purpose-made space is cut, this special cardboard structure triggers the exploration and makes its traces visible in the 600 m2 gallery space.  |
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This project makes a crash-investigation of one of Rotterdam's most 'public' spaces: the Witte de With street. Through a digital simulation model, it explores how this space can be identified as an assemblage of interests - a stage on which the 'struggle over space' through physical and non-physical interventions and occupations takes place. |
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Starting off from the drastic changes in urban structure of the city of Belgrade during the 1990's, Wild City sets out to identify the internal 'logic' of the seemingly chaotic processes and describe them in a systemic way. The thesis is that, by extracting mechanisms of transformation processes, the strength already available in many 'ground up' actions of urban actors can be used in design strategies. |
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This project dissects Munich's clichÈd image of traditional conservatism to explore its often hidden side of parallel cultural scenes and networks. Who are those that explore the possibilities left open? And what kinds of tactics do these 'urban innovators' employ? To observe and model their influence on the city of Munich, this project borrows modelling technique from the field of artificial intelligence. |
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This proposal is made as complementary plan to the master plan for redevelopment of the IJ-Embankment in Amsterdam North; a strategic ingredient that allows for flexibility of the area during its 25-year development trajectory. A catalyst function has been given to temporary programs and architecture to bring in urban pioneers and bridge the time-gap toward a vivid urban environment. |
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This urban simulation brings street trade, one of the central 'wild' practices of the city of Belgrade, to the digital ground to study the urban evolution and the impact it generates. Here the interest in physical form or growth patterns is secondary to an interest in the character and behaviour of the urban process itself. To start, the user introduces (draws) the 'geography' of the world and the 'ecology' of the agents.  |
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How can revealing city's essential characteristics help in strengthening its identity? In the context of the only 30 years old city of Almere, the proposal is to acknowledge the state of constant urban transformation to the core of the city's character. Eight principles for action are suggested to stimulate it; implying emancipation of inhabitants towards participation in the actual planning of the city. |
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The friction between the representation techniques for dynamics in urban environments and the virtually static features of architecture is at the core of the Pulse research. The interest of the project is in exploring the strategic potentials of dynamic maps as a base for design with focus on the increase of information density of maps, presence of time aspect or shift from representation to simulation. |
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The outcome of the Smart Architecture research is a book containing new ideas and challenging approaches towards sustainable architecture. The book brings together numerous examples with a wide range of possible ideas, but as well sketches a profile of what the task of an architect and designing under this paradigm would be. |
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This info-space originated from the desire to make complex sets of urban data accessible in relational and spatial way. The data is generated as a 3d 'cloud' through which users can 'fly' and which they can reorganise as desired, by that revealing the different topologies of data ëhiddení in the cloud. Here the proximity of data-objects has an associative meaning, which allows perceiving their relationships in unexpected ways. |
