Spaces of Representation
Organizers: Asociaţia de la 4 - Asociation of Student Architects from Timișoara
Coordinators: Architecture section - stud. arch. Dinu Dan - Răzvan; workshop - stud. arch. Isopescu Laurențiu.
Tutors: Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan, George Marinescu (studioBASAR), Tudor Elian
Team: Kovacs Karla, Mara Vidra, Diana Lupaşcu, Gondos Zsolt, Andrei Pripasu, Iovan Voiculescu, Ruxandra Bălănică, Ana Victoria Cosma, Georgiana Păunescu, Teodora Stigleț, Olimpiu Androne, Darko Bogdanov, Czaka Zoltan, Molnar Zsolt, Norbert Velescu, Ana Victoria Cosma.
Location: Victory Square, Timişoara
Period: 12 - 16 April 2013
The workshop was part of the Architecture section in the framework of StudentFest 2013, organized by the Association of the Students from West University in Timişoara. The workshop was supported by the Romanian Order of Architects - Timiş branch and Holver.
The spaces of representation are a species of the public space where mostly the commercial and administrative forces make their presence felt, spatially as well as visually dominating the territory, but where, paradoxically, conflicting situations, public resilience acts, subversive claims or just manifestations of local survival appear, making a lively and authentic public space. In the urban context of Victory Square in Timişoara, the workshop’s aim was to question, on site, the everyday manifestations of concepts like control and liberty, banality and representation or individual and common.
In just few days, each team managed to complete a one-to-one sketch of a proposal. The installations engaged the circumstances where they were inserted, and they temporarily modified the usages and the perceptions of the passer-byes. Either by their novelty, their practical use or just engaging a dialogue - the picnic, the feeding of the pigeons and the discourse of a clown, the real dialogue in the public space, including with the mayor, and the infiltration of the guerrilla furniture - the interventions practiced the public space, provoking situations impossible to foresee in the proposal phase.
