Tutors: Ecologic Studio:
Claudia Pasquero
Marco Polleto

Workshop brief

"It seems to me that the notion of machine that was current in the course of the Industrial Revolution, and which we might have inherited, is a notion, essentially, of a machine without goal. Now we've got the notion of a machine with an underspecified goal, the system that evolves. This is a new notion, nothing like the notion of machines that was current in the Industrial Revolution, absolutely nothing like it. It is, if you like, a much more biological notion, maybe I'm wrong to call such a thing a machine; I gave that label to it because I like to realize things as artefacts, but you might not call the system a machine, you might call it something else. "Gordon Pask" A machinic architecture with an underspecified material, spatial, performative and programmatic goal, able to evolve in real-time within the IAAC post industrial void. The void is filled with trajectories, densities, intensities and processes; it is converted into a new systemic" FUN PALACE

The workshop operates as a machinic protocol for the syntetisis of the PALACE whose "rooms" coagulate from raw materials, organisational principles, individual experince as well as group coordination, all in real-time. The construction process runs as a cultivation experiment, rigorously in 1:1, from digital diagramas to prototyping and installation. Loop after loop the protocol will unfold non-stop in a marathon lasting 63 hours over the course of 3daysand involving 6 groups of 5-6 students each, working on 3 hours shifts for a total of 1134 man*hours of cultivation. Relentles manufacturing, layering [1296 cellotape rolls for a total of 64km], testing, playing, discussing [with readings of Cedric Price's original Fun Palace], resting and back again another loop, another group breeding new material articulation and programmatic differentiation. No undoing is possible, only more overlaying, incorporation, negotiation with what is already there.