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Idea by

Ana Medina, Alice Covatta

Readymade

Calle del Poeta Esteban de Villegas, MADRID, Spain
Ana is PhD Architect for Polytechnic University of Madrid, Fellow Researcher at Keio University and Goldsmiths University, and International Researcher at Columbia University and Architectural Association. She has professional experience in public and private sectors. Alice is architect for University of Venice, PhD Architect at University of Udine and currently PostDoc at Keio University. Her work has been exposed at MAXXI Museum, Toronto University, Venice Biennale, and LoopHole in Melbourne.

Call for ideas 2018

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XS micro-occupations on XL infrastructures

Turn-it-over


XS micro-occupations on XL infrastructures
A moving and temporal project that acts in/with/within urban infrastructure for bodies’ purposes
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Turn-it-over embraces both large and small scale urbanism, espousing the need to encapsulate the most topical daily-life aspects in today’s cities. It sets up intimate experiences by using ordinary objects and transforms them into a thriving communal space.

XS micro-occupations create performative architectonic spaces in a human scale that is interpreted intimately and overcomes to XL precise and functional infrastructures. Rising up Marcel Duchamp’s “ready-mades,” this work makes visible secret and hidden feelings from the public spectrum, revealing simultaneously other spatial dimensions where bodies claim their own identities, aesthetics and [emotional] behaviours that challenge the fixed and established built environment.

Turn-it-over understands contemporary cities as a set of efficient elements that accelerates production over quality, and acts in a future architecture led by a contemporary culture of sensitive counterspaces.



Turn-it-over

Cartography

Micro-occupations

Occupying infrastructure

Turn-it-over


XS micro-occupations on XL infrastructures

Turn-it-over


XS micro-occupations on XL infrastructures
A moving and temporal project that acts in/with/within urban infrastructure for bodies’ purposes
File under

Turn-it-over embraces both large and small scale urbanism, espousing the need to encapsulate the most topical daily-life aspects in today’s cities. It sets up intimate experiences by using ordinary objects and transforms them into a thriving communal space.

XS micro-occupations create performative architectonic spaces in a human scale that is interpreted intimately and overcomes to XL precise and functional infrastructures. Rising up Marcel Duchamp’s “ready-mades,” this work makes visible secret and hidden feelings from the public spectrum, revealing simultaneously other spatial dimensions where bodies claim their own identities, aesthetics and [emotional] behaviours that challenge the fixed and established built environment.

Turn-it-over understands contemporary cities as a set of efficient elements that accelerates production over quality, and acts in a future architecture led by a contemporary culture of sensitive counterspaces.



Turn-it-over

Cartography

Micro-occupations

Occupying infrastructure


Idea by

Ana Medina, Alice Covatta
Readymade
Calle del Poeta Esteban de Villegas
MADRID
Spain
Ana is PhD Architect for Polytechnic University of Madrid, Fellow Researcher at Keio University and Goldsmiths University, and International Researcher at Columbia University and Architectural Association. She has professional experience in public and private sectors. Alice is architect for University of Venice, PhD Architect at University of Udine and currently PostDoc at Keio University. Her work has been exposed at MAXXI Museum, Toronto University, Venice Biennale, and LoopHole in Melbourne.