architecture tm.09: DEEP NORTH - EMERGENCY CAMP

21.11.2008

architecture tm.09: DEEP NORTH - EMERGENCY CAMP

DEEP NORTH - EMERGENCY CAMP

transmediale.09 in collaboration with raumtaktik

DEEP NORTH. The polar icecaps are melting. The sea level is rising. The deserts are expanding. Natural disasters, climate wars and migration are on the increase. 

Imagine the following scenario: the Spree has burst its banks. Like Noah’s Ark, the House of World Cultures, now a life raft, floats through Berlin’s new swampland. The city is in a state of emergency. The way we perceive and use our environment will have to change radically and this includes the everyday urban space around us. As a temporary conurbation, will the emergency camp - whether in civil war zones, or in the wake of natural disasters - become an urban model of society in transition?

festival architecture tm.09

For the digital nomads of today, the cultural agents of globalisation, raumtaktik is converting the House of World Cultures into such a camp. Outside and inside. Inclusion and exclusion. The camp will function as an informal settlement. The principle of parasitic action will determine the process of occupying space. In a constructive process, spaces will be created with varying densities - movable elements, ice floes, icebreakers.

The camp will be built out of objects found in our (climate-change generating) consumer and industrial society. Waste, reject and surplus items, special offers. Temporary things, textiles, improvised objects. With its spatial structure, the building will assume the function of exhibition architecture forming a landscape of wood, tarpaulin, acrylic multiwall sheets, ropes and other materials, in which the individual artworks of transmediale.09 will be exhibited. Practical uses will also be found for elements from past exhibitions at the House of World Cultures and other venues; the festival will recycle them and put them to new use in the emergency camp.

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