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Giovedì 19 Dicembre, Gian Maria Tosatti presenterà al Politecnico di Milano: Arte come dispositivo

Gian Maria Tosatti è un artista visivo romano. Si è formato al Centro per la Sperimentazione e la Ricerca Teatrale di Pontedera. Ha ricevuto, tra gli altri, il premio Terna 01 (2008), ArtSlant (2009-2010), Talent Prize (2011); è stato resident artist del Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York (2011) e della Fondazione Spinola-Banna, Asti (2013).

Dal 2005, le sue opere, generalmente grandi installazioni “ambientali” site specific, indagano le relazioni tra arte e architettura. Un lavoro paziente su tracce e memoria, capace di riscoprire, riattivare e riconnettere al presente luoghi abbandonati / dimenticati da tempo, grazie a poche, meditate azioni di trasformazione.
Tra i suoi lavori recenti ricordiamo “Spazio #6” e la “Tetralogia della polvere” a Casa Bossi, Novara (ciclo “Le considerazioni sugli intenti della mia prima comunione restano lettera morta”). Poche settimane fa, Tosatti ha inaugurato a Napoli una nuova installazione (“la Peste”) e un nuovo ciclo di progetti (Le sette stagioni dello spirito) che ambiscono a ridefinire il valore sociale dell’arte nella città contemporanea.

Politecnico di Milano
Facoltà di Architettura e Società (via Ampère, 2)
Aula Gamma, ore 18:00

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This pretty much speaks for itself [By Politizane]. The question is: how is it in Italy?

Lablog has been invited to participate at the one-day seminar “Shifting AiR strategies” arranged by id11 in collaboration with Tetterode Collective on the 14th DEC at Lijm & Cultuur space. Lablog will present the on-going research-by-design focused on “The Next Monument” on new forms of Memorialisation of conflict memories. The work is part of the REcall-project, a research by-design funded by EU Culture Programme 2012.

As part of the same initiative, on the 11th, within the Amsterdam West Wednesday programme, Lablog will present “The Next Monument” also in the premises of Tetterode Marble Hall by means of an “Instant Exhibition”.

Download the Tetterode Collective program or go to the id11 homepage.

lablog has been invited to take part at the research project on going at The Newcastle Fin Art School “The Jetty project” run by prof. artist Wolfgang Weileder. The project is intended to promote and show how art work can be catalyst of public urban renewals and is focused on the Daston Staiths, an industrial infrastructure dismissed during the 90s (a 500 mt long pear all in wood). Lablog contribute will deal with the Adaptive Re-use concept and on how architectural design can achieve to exploit & enhance all potentiality and values of neglected, misused, abandoned built heritage.

The project will have a kick-off-meeting in March 2014 hosted by the prestigious Centre for Contemporary Art “Baltic” on the Tyne river in Newcastle.

lablog participation is part of the research project PRIN2010: Re-cycling Italy.

Giovedì 28 Novembre, Samantha Hardingham presenterà al Politecnico di Milano:  Cedric Price: the FEET have it

[“Places of Remembrance” by Stih and Schnock, Berlin 1993]

lablog has been invited at the Newcastle Fine Art School [26NOV2013, at 16:00 in the seminar room at ground floor] for the lecture  “Form of Memories: Thinking about history in public places” as part of the REcall project initiatives.

The presentation deals with how monuments and memorials seem over time to have lost their effectiveness and have become empty simulacri of a remembrance and a memory they are no longer able to reactivate or keep alive. And this is where the investigation on traditional and new form of commemorative art works takes off.

lablog is at KU Leuven for an intensive course on “interiors”: details about the initiative can be found at Athens courses while for details about the course download the programme.

Lectures presented: Architecture vs Furniture; On Architects’ own houses

Lablog was invited to deliver a speech to the Competing Memories 4 Day Seminar, an interdisciplinary conference addressing the politics of heritage and memory, identity and occupation, European political integration and citizenship as well as the theoretical implications of totalitarianism, terror, trauma, genocide and mass violence.

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Giovedì 24 Ottobre Maarten Gielen di ROTOR presenterà al Politecnico di Milano  ON PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS.

Fondato nel 2005, Rotor è un collettivo formato da persone con un comune interesse nei cicli materiali dell’industria e della costruzione.

A livello pratico, Rotor si confronta con l’ideazione e realizzazione di progetti architettonici e di design. Sul piano teorico, Rotor sviluppa un pensiero critico su design, risorse materiali e scarti attraverso ricerca, mostre, scritti e conferenze.

Se avete perso la conferenza di Maarten Gielen -Rotor- potete riascoltarla e vedere una selezione delle sue diapositive qui.

Politecnico di Milano

Facoltà di Architettura e Società (via Ampère, 2)

Aula Gamma, ore 18:00

Download the poster of Material Contexts

more info about MATERIAL CONTEXTS conferences and updates: bipolarch and lablog

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Facoltà di Architettura e Società
Aula Gamma, ore 18:00

24 October 2013
Maarteen Gielen (ROTOR) – Brussels / B

28 November 2013

Samantha Hardingham (AA) – London / UK

19 December 2013

Gian Maria Tosatti – Roma / IT

9 January 2014
David Gissen (HTC EXPERIMENTS – CCA) – San Francisco / USA

Il panorama progettuale e critico contemporaneo ha visto emergere una postura “realista” all’interno della quale si riscontra un rinnovato interesse per il contesto, ricondotto ad un puro aspetto di materialità.

Questa linea di azione è sovente caratterizzata da un approccio conservativo, benché il suo movente sia distante dalle istanze della disciplina conservativa tradizionale.

Emergono così nuove strategie di inclusione dell’aspetto caduco e metamorfico della materialità architettonica; si esplorano le potenzialità spaziali, percettive e tipologiche del riuso edilizio; si incorporano le ricadute economiche ed energetiche dei cicli materiali; si agisce sulla città come ecosistema minerale sedimentato ed in costante trasformazione.

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5 seminari come un punto di partenza per aprire un dialogo fra progettisti, università e committenza, sia pubblica che privata, così da proporre nuove forme per l’abitare sociale del prossimo futuro a Milano. Coordinamento prof. Anna Delera/Politecnico di Milano.

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ATTORI PRIVATI : COOPERATIVE INDIVISE
23.10.2013 ore 14:30 – 17:30 _aula GAMMA

– Progetto Zoia: Federica Verona (CCL), Vincenzo Gaglio (AUSarchitetti)
– Progetto Quattro Corti, quartiere Stadera: Sergio D’Agostini (DarCasa)
– Ritorno all’abitare. Una cooperativa in città: Paola Barbieri (SEAO), Chiara Quinzii e Diego Terna (QTA)

Scarica il programma o leggilo di seguito.

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Milan [edible] city by Luca Pavarin (POLIMI October 2013)

As a living beings we depend on food. Our entire life is shaped by this essential need but considering cities, the place in which we live and work, a contradiction is becoming visible. The sustenance of the urban lifestyle depends even more from something we produce elsewhere, in something we usually call countryside.

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Better shared house by Zui Tao & Yezi Zhang (POLIMI October 2013)

The issue relates to built environment, determines the well-being of residents, and probably has its influence on shaping the future pattern of urban living, serving as the origin of our study.

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lablog is going to Oslo Architecture Triennale (curated by ROTOR) and will be there from 26 to 30 September. All lab-int students are invited to join. Meeting point either Thursday morning at DogA (h 10:00), either in the afternoon at AHO (h 14:00) to join the discussion “SUSTAINABLE DISCUSSIONS: CUSTOM MADE”.

Download the OAT programme that is actually also our programme (Ryanair flies from Bergamo to Rygge)

Hope to meet many of you there!

REcall WS3: Rome, 8-14 SEP 2013

Research by design activity aimed at envisioning projects in consistency with the issues pointed out in the REcall-project Call. Two-days visits to the case-study sites will provide direct knowledge of the project areas and identification of specific requirements suggested by the hosting institutions. The workshop activities will comprise teamwork, conferences, seminars, lectures and communications from local administration.

To browse into the final day presentation visit the link