Terrific views
Summer is a season of plenty and harvest. But it has also become a time of heat and shortage. Our landscapes have been shaped by an utmost human perspective of needs, demanding vast resources and space, affecting other species and whole ecosystems.
Great prospects for one can be awful for others. The term terrific addresses this ambiguity.
Great prospects for one can be awful for others. The term terrific addresses this ambiguity.
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“Terrific views”, was a summer school in the context of the Design Campus exhibition “Water School”, in which we collectively explored possible perspectives and used themn as cornerstones to gain new understandings of landscape.
We paired diverse formats of hands-on action, interactive research, theoretical backgrounds and practice-based knowledge and developed architectures and tools, wrote texts and shared thoughts.
We paired diverse formats of hands-on action, interactive research, theoretical backgrounds and practice-based knowledge and developed architectures and tools, wrote texts and shared thoughts.
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Commissioners:
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunstgewerbemuseum/ Design Campus
Place:
Wermsdorf
Year:
2024
Collaborator:
Studio Makkink & Bey
Tasks:
Konzept, Durchführung
Topics:
Landwirtschaft, Landschaft
Project website: www.designcampus.org
Tour with geo-ranger
Exploring the old fish lakes
Exploring the springs in the forest
Corn fields surrounding the castle
Parforce trail network in the forest
Introductory stroll with exercises and recitations
Cognitive mapping of the surrounding
Castle courtyard as studio space