Urban Divan
Organizer: 4AM
Tutors: Jaroslav Sedlák (4AM), Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan (studioBASAR), Jiří Suchánek (FAVU).
Team: Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan, Jarek Sedlák, Zuzana Krejčířová, Eva Štrocholcová, Pavel Klvaňa.
Location: Brno, Cehia
Period: 11 iulie - 21 iulie 2011
Urban Divan workshop was organized by 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media in cooperation with House of Arts Brno as a additional program of project Brno Art Open 2011; with financial support of Austrian Cultural Forum, city of Brno, Ministry of culture of Czech republic, International Visegrad Fund and Czech Architectural foundation.
http://www.forum4am.cz/?p=1566&lang=en
In the framework of the workshop we investigate the ‘as found’ narratives of the spaces in the city by two concrete interventions.
The Strings
First installation was dealing with the leftovers of the socialist project, as we transformed the forgotten public metallic bars designed for hanging clothing to dry or for cleaning the carpets into multipurpose public furniture, that together with two instant swings helped creating a new place in the neighborhood, used by the locals the same day.
The Traveling Cabin
The second intervention was a mobile unit: a traveling cabin that provokes the status of the public fountains in the city. The public fountains used to bring water close to the citizens, either for washing, for cooling, or for bathing. In time, they lost most of those qualities, and the fountains are used today just to please the eye. The Travelling Cabin is a provocation and an opportunity for the citizens to use these fountains as they please, even as bathing places in the hot summer days. Placed near public fountains, The Travelling Cabin acts as changing room, but it also can behave as a check point, a private pavilion, smoking place or a kiosk.
