3/19/2016 023_ICE023_ICE - STRANGE SPACES: CULTURAL INVENTION IN ICELAND
Strange Spaces was an interdisciplinary field trip and summer course involving two Canadian Universities and the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. The course combined lectures, drawing exercises, building research and fieldwork along Highway #1. Among the many themes explored were Catch & Release: Icelandic Farm Prisons; Isolation Chamber - a remote sound recording studio to explore new Icelandic musical forms; and Bird House, studies on the migratory patterns and distinctive characteristics of the birds of Iceland. - University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture & Dalhousie Faculty of Architecture and Planning 7/3/2015 022_BENCH022_BENCH
THE BENCH 2015 is an idea based design competition open to all ages and backgrounds. The challenge of the competition is to design and install a temporary structure on a street to transform the street environment to a form of public space. The competition is to design a seasonal-seating-space along the street edge of a retail front. How can we (re) imagine the street as a public space? How can we imagine the street beyond its function as a ‘route’? How can we enact new dynamics and life on to the street? What are the existing potentials? How can we engage and interact with the existing potentials on the street? What kinds of (new) street dynamic can we imagine today? What new kinds of public space/scene could emerge from streets today? What are the elements that could trigger such a spatial transformation? 3/5/2015 020_COOL020_COOL showcases 39 design proposals for 2015 Cool Gardens. Cool Gardens is a public exhibition of contemporary garden and art installations that offers a shift of sensation for the summer—cooling—as a general theme for public projects in the downtown. The exhibit aims to bring architects, designers, landscape architects, and artists together to celebrate contemporary garden culture and the local landscape. The presentation of the cutting-edge garden designs, places design culture at the centre of summer activities in Winnipeg and at the same time, offers a pleasant relief from the summer exasperations.
12/18/2014 019_DINE019_DINE will showcase top three design proposals for RAW:almond 2015. The proposals are results of an open international design competition organized by Joe Kalturnyk and Madel Hitzer, the creators of RAW:almond, early this year. The winning design will be built on the river in January 2015. As RAW:almond 2015, the structure will host (and celebrate) 'monumental temporalities' in Winnipeg’s culinary art, design, event-culture and winter-living. The top three proposals are from London (UK), Berlin, and Winnipeg.
10/3/2014 018_POV018_POV (point-of-view) is a VIEWMASTER-like display of Winnipeg’s architecture and city. Up to 30 photographers will each display 3 pictures, based on their point-of-views, in rotation. The rotating images will render different impressions of the city and its architecture.
9/19/2014 017_SCALE017_SCALE is a set of graphic plates that juxtaposes Winnipeg and 11 urban centres around the world. The graphic overlay of data and geography in the plates evokes a conversation between the two cities, through the memories and experiences that we have of the cities. The conversation then (we hope) heightens our awareness of Winnipeg in contrast the other cities, leading us to ponder the ‘practice of everyday life’ of Winnipeggers.
017_SCALE is a part of graphic communication research by STUFF / graphics by Dale Wiebe. 6/13/2014 016_POST016_POST was an open call to design new postcards for Winnipeg. The call was cancelled due to complications with GDC who misunderstood the premise of this call. We were able to exhibit some amazing/daring entries for public discussions, on the idea of postcard, communication-graphics and everyday graphic design.
5/23/2014 015_VIEW2015_VIEW2 is the culmination of ten intensive months of study for the students of Prairie View School of Photography.
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