Lucien Kroll: Moments D`Architectures
eco week with Lucien Kroll @ METAVILLA, French Pavillion, Venice Bienalle, 9 – 14 october 06
”Ecology is exactly and no more the science of relations” : Lucien Kroll
The week is a sacred form, so the days of the week are divided into seperate themes; 6 days of work and we rest together on the 7th day.
audio recordings from the week (work in progress, apologies)
Day 1 : no recording available at present
Day 2 : architecture : why is participation important (1 hr 38 mns)
invited friend : Peter Blundell-Jones
Day 3 : architecture and the participation of the user (1 hour 25 mns)
invited friend : Peter Hubner
Day 4 : From Bauhaus to our uncles house: eco decolonisation ( 1 hr 50 mins )
invited friend : Sergio Porto, human space lab
Day 5 : eco landcapes (1 hour)
invited friend : Luigi Cavallari
Day 6 : open conclusions from the week (2.5 hours)
invited friend : Ugo Sasso from Bioarchitettura and many more
Weeks closing touching words between friends and mutual role models; Lucien Kroll, Patrick Bouchain, Simone Kroll
last words from the last NATIONAL pavilion, bon appettite (3 mins)
Paris riots; a natural result of a criminal modern architecture? (kids destroy)
”As a matter of urgency, we must stop considering architecture, urban and landscape design as products of techniques, rationalities, methods, economy, hard sciences, specifications, or narcissism. Last year, in the French Clichy-sous-Bois, we saw riots when young people burned 1000 cars in 20 days as well as many public buildings, and how it had been triggered by a criminal modern architecture. If the 20th century was overwhelmed by the power of technology authority, the 21st century will probably endeavour to soften and try to rehumanize its citizen`s behaviours and by the way, also its architecture.
We should first place inhabited environmant along with human and global knowledge system: intuitive, ecological, relational, emotional, experienced, etc. Instead of seeing it as a frigid mechanism or as merchandise.
Only after that, may we talk abut inventing tools and intelligence: no one is useless as a servant, provided that he or she renounces taking power for him-herself. Hence, weshould reinvent the friendly and free relations we had with our techniques because they have become autistic and harmful. Architecture will then become once again humanitarian and hospi-table as it was in the pre-human epoch ( the Zeus of hositaltity René Schérer)”
humane architecture as a participitive social act – Peter Hubner schoolbuild (kids create)
so reads the poster for this week of discussions in METAVILLA, the French Pavilion, here at the Venice Bienalle
programme for week:
Each day will be illustrated by a sort of daily exhibition of “banners” with 2 or 3 of our projects qs examples of hte signification of architecture. The whole exhibition will be shown Saturday and Sunday.
Many books will be exposed and 2 new ones: “Partecipazione e partecipazione … ” Mancosu publisher in Roma, A magazine of Milan University with my study ( 1965: “Kimihurura, Rwanda, urban decolonization”
Exhibition: “Spontaneous cities and gardens”: a comparison between the freedom of the gardens of Simone Kroll and naturally self formed cities.
Monday 9th, 5.00 : Eco-ethology
Model: Conrad Lorenz as architect?
invited : Jean-Louis Deneubourg (social insects behaviour)
Tuesday 10th, 5.00 : Eco-Biology
Model: Ebenezer Howard & Patrick Geddes as urban designers?
invited : Peter Blundell-Jones, architectural critic
The Participative observations demonstrate that the “whole” is a net of active, solitary living things and I invite Ebenezer Howard, Patrick Geddes and James Lovelock: they showed the city as a living being. Peter Blundell-Jones just wrote a book about participatioin….
Wednesday 11th, 5.00 : Eco-Pedagogy
Model: Carl Rogers as architect?
invited : Peter Hubner, architect.
Thursday 12th, 5.00 : Eco-Decolonization,
Model: Ivan Illich as architect?
invited : Sergio Porta: analysis of street nets:
Friday 13th, 5.00 : Eco-Landscapes
Model: Louis le Roy, Gilles Clement; architects?
invited : Luigi Cavallari
Saturday 14th, 11.00 : Open Conclusions
Model: Peter Sloterdijk : (rules for a hman park) :: ( ancient humanism became mechanization untill eugenics`…) and Marcel Gauchet “the disenchant,ent of the world”
invited : Ugo Sasso, Wittfrieda Mitterer, founder of INBAR (Bioarchitettura)
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attempts are being made at present to braodcast these discussions live over the net via streaming technology. Discussions from today onward will be archived for later listening.
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previous posts about or from Venice Bienalle;
Onboard the (French) pirate ship METAVILLA (whats being pointed at in Venice this year?)
Cities, architecture and culture, Venice architecture Bienalle 2007
previous example of streaming event :
Future of Digital Media
watch 4 minute film about : streaming from the gaff
recent eco work I have been involved with:
Ireland:
greenway and eco corridor for Dublin : Botanic spine and Dublins greenway
community gardens Dublins community gardens
Denmark:
eco building; a new outdoor playhouse for Bornholm Kindergarten
Bosnia:
Eco city Banja Luka
related thread and base for audio files:
Cities, radical urbanism, sqatting, social centres
posted by duncan
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:01:00 GMT
