Category: Workshop

Lawrence Halprin

Wikipedia

Halprin’s work is marked by his attention to human scale, user experience, and the social impact of his designs, in the egalitarian tradition of Frederick Law Olmsted. Halprin was the creative force behind the interactive, ‘playable’ civic fountains most common in the 1970s, an amenity which continues to greatly contribute to the pedestrian social experience in Portland Oregon, where “Ira’s Fountain” is loved and well-used, and which has been a chronic failure at the transient-ridden United Nations Plaza in San Francisco.

 

In his best work, he construed landscape architecture as narrative.

from

Rainey, Reuben M. (2001). “The Garden as Narrative: Lawrence Halprin’s Frankllin Delano Roosevelt Memorial,” in Places of Commemoration : Search for Identity and Landscape Design, pp. 377-413.

 

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http://d.hatena.ne.jp/caesar-blanca/20101219/p1

http://blog.enviro-studio.net/?eid=85

Ritsuko Taho, 田甫　律子

Artist’s website

MIT Visual Arts Program

Tokyo university of the arts

Biography

Ritsuko Taho is an artist who works in the public arena ranging from
landscape sculpture and earthwork to urban sculptural installations.

Taho is interested in relationships to the Other –for instance,
between nature and people, people and people. She has dealt with
these issues in public art and explored the use of various natural
materials while she has incorporated community participation within
her installations since the early 1980s.

Art, space and the city: public art and urban futures, Malcolm Miles, 1997

Preface?

  • A duality emerges between public art which is bound by the aesthetics of the object, and art as a continuous, participatory process of social criticism.
  • Two roles for art are suggested:
    • as decoration within a re-visioned field of urban design in which the needs of users are central,
    • and as a social process of criticism and engagement, defining the public realm not as public sites but as complex fields of public interest. The tension between these positions is creative.

Evaluation Mentioned

  • 4: The contradictions of Public Art
    • Page 59:
      • Selwood, The Benefits of Public Art, 1995
      • ref 25: A particular problem is the lack of a tested methodology for either qualitative or quantitative evaluation, though this could be developed from the skills of market researchers; more important is the definition of what constitutes a benefit to society.
    • Page 68:
      • (first mentioned The Strategy for Public Art in Cardiff Bay,1990) ..we could contrast Visual Dallas (Dallas, 1987), which begins with an evaluation of the city, and the importance for its ‘livability’ of good public space, citing W.H.Whyte (perhaps ‘The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces’,1980)
    • Page 76: Evaluation

Tsubasa Kato 加藤　翼

http://www.mujin-to.com/artist_kato.htm

http://koganecho.net/koganecho-bazaar-2011/artist/tsubasa-kato.html

http://koganecho.net/koganecho-bazaar-2011/artist/tsubasa-kato.html

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1984 年埼玉県生まれ。2010年東京藝術大学 大学院美術研究科 修了。2007年、当時 住んでいた自分と友人の部屋の間取りを合体させた構造体を引き興す を発表。その後、上野恩賜公園（2008 年）、 フランス ナント（2009年）でのプロジェクトを経て、2010年、東京・森美術館での「六本木クロッシング2010展：芸術は可能か？」に参加。今年、大阪市中央公会堂前、大阪城公園、万博記念公園前でのイベントを行う。

Wismar Dynamic Lighting Workshop, HFG Wismar+Philips Lighting, 2011

On 9 June 2011, students and advisers fine-tuned the staircase installation. This segment show how the shadows follow our choreography.
Youtube Channel
In March 2011, the Hochschule Wismar, with the support of Philips Lighting, launched a 4th-semester Dynamic Lighting Workshop project to develop creative and technically groundbreaking lighting concepts for public space. The goal was to explore how light brings static surfaces to life, lends dynamism to facades and enlivens buildings. You can read about the entire project on LightCommunity:


http://community.lighting.philips.com/blogs/WismarProjects

The Wismar Dynamic Lighting Workshop presentation was delivered by 22 students on June 10 at Hochschule Wismar, the Faculty of Design and Architecture in northern Germany. This film is a documentation of the installations, produced by students on the Communication and Media course of the school (Professor Jochen Wisotzki).

Staircase group project
Students: Olga Galkova, Fernanda Montecinos, Darío Nuñez, Volha Pakholkava, Natasa Rajic, Menekse Seyma Kaya, Julie Wangsajaya, Linlin Yang

Bridge Group project
Students: Frederik Friederichs, Christine Holzke, Stefan Maassen, Juan Felipe Rivera, Piyanut Siramanakun, Isabella Trybula, Daniel Witzler, Lin Zhang

Facade Group project
Students: Audry Brandsma, Jürgen Eisenhauer, Melanie Heilgeist, Janine Jeserig, Elena Kozlova, Akarsh Mahendra, Vikramaditya Varma

Interaction/Relation　Light and person correspondence

Christen Boltanski at Naoshima/Teshima
Rafael … Pulse lights
Miyajima at Naoshima

Find the root of this way of participation.

Remember salt lake project seen at Tate modern