Design and build workshop with Observatorium
A four-day design and build studio, creating a scenario for an Urban Oasis with Observatorium – studio for public art and place-making. Taking place on 25 May and 6, 28 & 29 June 2024. Regular tickets are available for 200 euro. Student tickets are available for 175 euro. Get them here
Regular tickets are available for 200 euro. Student tickets are available for 175 euro. To qualify for students discount you can send an email to info[@]schoolforthecity.nl This studio needs a minimum of 10 participants and has a maximum of 15 participants. Registration deadline 13 may 2024.
About the workshop
In this workshop we will design and build a temporary installation with the artist collective Observatorium. The installation responds to the ever – and faster – changing world, where a vision for a dreamed future can be a powerful statement to make changes tangible, to turn dreams into reality and to get people moving. For a city like Rotterdam, which is also subject to major changes such as global warming, it is important to reflect on those changes, to imagine them and make them tangible for yourself and for the people around you. Not necessarily to solve them but to understand them, hold them, turn them, rethink them and put them in a different perspective.
During this workshop we embrace the transition and show it in extremes. We will explore the notion of an oasis as a metaphor in the City. What is the urban desert in a city like Rotterdam, and what is thus the oasis? What is changing and how do you show it? The workshop starts with a tour around some of the built projects by Observatorium and a lecture about their way of working. Afterwards we will collectively design a temporary installation that should function as an Urban Oasis, responding to changing climate and the warming up of our city. Eventually we will roll up our sleeves and build it together in a public space in the surroundings of the school.
About Observatorium
Observatorium is a studio for public art and place-making in cities and landscapes, based in Rotterdam. We work on representations of geographies, transitions and local culture in urban public space and the natural environment in many countries and produce strategic planning, placemaking, public works of art and related public events. The award winning public artworks vary from large scale sculptures to gardens and pavilions, all providing opportunities for gathering, dwelling, dialogue, contemplation or special events. Observatorium developes an artform that generates as much attention for the world around us as for itself. At best, it creates a sense of wonder in often already magical places.
Programme
Saturday 25 May 2024
10:00 – 11:00 Lecture by Observatorium
11:00 – 17:00 Excursion to Observatorium projects in and around Rotterdam.
Thursday 06 June 2024
13:00 – 17:00 Develop and design a collective spatial scenario for an Urban Oasis.
Friday 28 & Saturday 29 June 2024 Building and presenting the Urban Oasis