Mind the gaps //
Making future summer school
Pictures taken during the performance
During the Making Future Summer School
Haus Der Statistik, Berlin
During the Making Future Summer School
Haus Der Statistik, Berlin
THE WORkSHOP
This workshop proposal took place within the context of the Making future school. It was runned by Ignacio Farias teacher at the umbolt university, Mariana Ordóñez Grajales and Jesica Amescua Carrera from Comunal : taller de architectura, Mexico. We’ve mainly been interested in questionning
the notion of «gaps».
THE PROCESS
Through a broken window we entered an abandoned Haus G. We explored up the stairs and down corridors to a row of rooms facing onto Otto-Braun Strasse, located on the 1st floor. Here, we observed a range of odd objects and materials, hinting at stories untold, interrupted and lost. We saw a gap. To map and fill this gap, we used play. We needed to play in order to speculate. We explored the ways in which one can imagine realities. This speculative process would guide us through this forensic investigation.
Official investigations began, focusing on material explorations of place. In our sectioned off sub-site, we removed objects for later analysis... fireworks, drug paraphernalia, material swatches, traces of human inhabitation. We practiced a somewhat subjective process of objectification along the way. Which objects do we choose and why? The process of doing? Spot. Tape. Label. Measure. Photograph. Label Bag. Remove. Store.
Together, we collaboratively developed a socio- spatial narrative that revealed alternative truths for the wonderfully complex building site of Haus der Statistik. Using forensic and speculative cartographies, and relational approaches, we explored the possible multiple ecologies of a past Haus G. We documented this in our office, which became the exhibition narrative of our findings.
We created a resource for future archaeologists of place and space through imagining and prototyping future habitats for the Haus der Statistik building.
In the context of the MakingFutures School, we attempted to reconstruct the lost narratives of the Haus der Statistik building. We performed as archeologists conducting a spatial investigation of forensics and speculation. Our architecture was a method and a process to tell a story and to map and fill a gap.
“The only way to understand the reality of science studies, is to follow what science studies does best, that is, paying close attention to the details of scientific practice.”
Bruno Latour, Pandora’s Hope.
Project realized with Ellie Skinner and Jonas Illigman
This workshop proposal took place within the context of the Making future school. It was runned by Ignacio Farias teacher at the umbolt university, Mariana Ordóñez Grajales and Jesica Amescua Carrera from Comunal : taller de architectura, Mexico. We’ve mainly been interested in questionning
the notion of «gaps».
THE PROCESS
Through a broken window we entered an abandoned Haus G. We explored up the stairs and down corridors to a row of rooms facing onto Otto-Braun Strasse, located on the 1st floor. Here, we observed a range of odd objects and materials, hinting at stories untold, interrupted and lost. We saw a gap. To map and fill this gap, we used play. We needed to play in order to speculate. We explored the ways in which one can imagine realities. This speculative process would guide us through this forensic investigation.
Official investigations began, focusing on material explorations of place. In our sectioned off sub-site, we removed objects for later analysis... fireworks, drug paraphernalia, material swatches, traces of human inhabitation. We practiced a somewhat subjective process of objectification along the way. Which objects do we choose and why? The process of doing? Spot. Tape. Label. Measure. Photograph. Label Bag. Remove. Store.
Together, we collaboratively developed a socio- spatial narrative that revealed alternative truths for the wonderfully complex building site of Haus der Statistik. Using forensic and speculative cartographies, and relational approaches, we explored the possible multiple ecologies of a past Haus G. We documented this in our office, which became the exhibition narrative of our findings.
We created a resource for future archaeologists of place and space through imagining and prototyping future habitats for the Haus der Statistik building.
In the context of the MakingFutures School, we attempted to reconstruct the lost narratives of the Haus der Statistik building. We performed as archeologists conducting a spatial investigation of forensics and speculation. Our architecture was a method and a process to tell a story and to map and fill a gap.
“The only way to understand the reality of science studies, is to follow what science studies does best, that is, paying close attention to the details of scientific practice.”
Bruno Latour, Pandora’s Hope.
Project realized with Ellie Skinner and Jonas Illigman
The space
THE OFFICE
HOW TO ARCHIVE ?
For practice, we needed tools. For our tools, we needed an office. For our office, we needed a space. The nature of our site, Haus der Statistik, meant that there was an abundance of empty rooms waiting to be repurposed. We selected a room seperated from our site of investigation, Haus G, and seperated from the crowds of the MakingFutures cohort. Haus der Materialisierung would now house our newly formed Wing of Archaeological practices
within the MakingFutures School. It was there that we were able to explore the transformative nature of architecture by converting an unused, dirt- and dust—filled room into our private research tent. The tools were acquired from a nearby office. Hunting and gathering was a successful approach, as we sourced desks, lights, chairs, cables, suits, masks, gloves, bags, brushes and more. We cleaned and organized and prepared, documenting along the way.
HOW TO ARCHIVE ?
For practice, we needed tools. For our tools, we needed an office. For our office, we needed a space. The nature of our site, Haus der Statistik, meant that there was an abundance of empty rooms waiting to be repurposed. We selected a room seperated from our site of investigation, Haus G, and seperated from the crowds of the MakingFutures cohort. Haus der Materialisierung would now house our newly formed Wing of Archaeological practices
within the MakingFutures School. It was there that we were able to explore the transformative nature of architecture by converting an unused, dirt- and dust—filled room into our private research tent. The tools were acquired from a nearby office. Hunting and gathering was a successful approach, as we sourced desks, lights, chairs, cables, suits, masks, gloves, bags, brushes and more. We cleaned and organized and prepared, documenting along the way.