October 2010
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August 2010
26 posts
a social exchange_ bartlett portfolio, volume...
a social exchange_ bartlett portfolio, volume two
a social exchange_ bartlett portfolio, volume one
Watcha social exchange_ trailer
architecture in movement_ the dynamics of exchange between people and their environment. re-articulating a corporate, urban plaza by constructing a participatory environment and inserting a spontaneous, counter program into this calculated, formulaic space.
Watcha social exchange_ the making of
this project used the act of performance to construct a participatory environment, staging scenarios of how the exchange square is used everyday and allowing each act to be malleable and to change as the participants grew more confident as a group and in the space. by intimately engaging with the space during the performance the relationship between people and the...
the dynamics of exchange
An exchange is the act of giving one thing and receiving another in return. In today’s international world this process of exchange is constantly in motion - be it currency, commodities, ideas, knowledge, or dialogue - everything is moving around the globe with increasing speed. Within architecture, the dynamics of exchange takes place in an ongoing push and pull, give and take, a perpetual...
q&a:
if you went back to the exchange square...
q&a:
how did your role change through the...
q&a:
how would you add onto or change the...
ex•change: a [counter] performance
as architects we choreograph spaces for events to happen within. we design spaces to be used. the design of these spaces is shaped by much more than just visual aesthetics, there are the invisible conditions - economical, cultural, climatic, historical, legal, social, current trends, personal propensities - that contribute to making the architecture what it is. the same space is seen differently...
July 2010
25 posts
exchange : performance book
post-performance documentation » a linear description of the complete performance - each scene, the progression of the stories of the characters, interviews with the participants discussing their role in the performance and how the space was used, and more.
post-performance interview questions to the...
1 had you ever been to the exchange square before? if so, what was it like then, how did you find it? if not, describe your first impression on the day.
2 what was your role in the performance? how did you enact it? what was your prop/how did you use it?
3 how did your role change as we went through the acts?
4 who did you interact with? both in the scenes and outside of the scenes.
5 what...
“four hours of playing in the space, all rigorously recorded and choreographed...”
– Duane [participant, still video]
“it was amazing coming up to the group and everyone was in their black with the...”
– lucy jones [participant, child]
a guest entry by patrick berning, performance...
Oh what people must have thought. A cluster of black-clad 20 somethings enveloping the barren urban square of the Broadgate estate in swaths of electric green fabric. Twisting, turning, jumping, laughing, moving, dancing, singing, shouting. Forms and people and colour and light; transforming an empty plot of privately owned, obsessively controlled land into an oasis of big-hearted urban...
[the script] performance handbook & character...
