Day 1 of the Workshop

Hello everybody!
Today was the first day of the Workshop - Beauty of Decay. The brief of the workshop was announced and the groups were made. Check out on what the students will be working on during this week!

The beauty of Decay – Workshop

Brief: Highlight the piece of the canal of Eindhoven that, in your opinion, best portraits the beauty of Decay and should not be forgotten or remain anonymous to the public. One should question if this beauty lies in the nostalgic feeling it brings to our memory; or in the undiscovered potentials that it insinuates to whoever is willing to be its audience.

Outcome: Students will produce a wooden frame to show the piece of the canal that they have chosen. With the location framed, students need to think of how to highlight said beauty. It can be in the form of sketches, collages, modeling, materials, etc. The model at the scale of 1:1000 done in the studio of prof. Curulli will be used to indicate the location each group chose along the canal.

Practical matters:

• Each group will be provided some wood to construct their own frame. The frame should have as dimensions 2mx2,5m. This base can be constructed and used in whichever way the group sees fit.
• The material and tools for building the frame will be provided to the students. Any other material that the students want to use has to be obtained by their own means. Remember that the topic of the workshop is the beauty of decay; hence it does not make much sense to buy new material (which would have to come out of the students’ pockets). Each group should use their own knowledge of the industries located along the canal to hunt for extra material. (Most of these industries have a lot of left-over which they can dispense)

Timeline:

• Students will be in the workshop the whole week developing their concept and making decisions on what piece of decay they want to emphasize, why and how.
• The time of the workshop is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., time in which it will also be open to the public. However, this time is flexible: while some students can be sketching the group’s ideas, others can be building the frame or hunting for any extra material that they might need.
• During the week there will be some guests that will give some lectures (also open to the general public) and advice to the work in progress to the students.
• The lectures will be in the evening, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
• Final presentation will be on Friday at 7 p.m. (open to the general public). Party will follow.

Participants:

• Tutors: Irene Curulli and Jan Schevers
• Students: 40 students that will work together in groups
• Guests: Invited artists, lecturers and experts that will give advice and criticism to the students during the process

List of Participants:

Group 1:

Yan Hang Lo

Edwin Caspers

Elena Chochanova

Stijn Kuipers

Martin van Overveld

Quentin Deyirmendjian

Omyra Mingels

Group 2:

Tomas Durdis

Eleonora Zanetti

Guy Steiner

Doruk Ozcifci

Niels van’t Oever

Bas van Geffen

Bart Hellings
John Schneijderberg

Group 3:

Remko Kroes

Begun Yilmaz

Philip Weibhauser

Veronica Sykorova

Chiara Garri

Rik van den Elzen

Ricardo Ploemen

Group 4:

Luca Vallicelli

Sebastian Gernhardt

Eric Pijffers

Futura Falistocco

Daniela Gheorghiu

Meslec Mihaela

Leroy

Group 5:

Ralph Vleeshouwers

Karsten Seifert

Manuel Aust

Pedro Snow

Jaime Ramila