Mystetskyi Arsenal: Spatial Development Scenarios

About

Format: 6-day international and interdisciplinary workshop in the framework of the 10th International Architecture Festival CANactions 2017 (with full-time involvement)

Course leader

Curatorship: Mirjam Niemeyer/ helsinkizurich (FI / CH) Tutors: Víctor Cano Ciborro, Fani Kostourou, Adriana Pablos / Future Architecture Platform: call for ideas 2017

Target group

Participants' profile: Critically-thinking practitioners, researchers, and artists with background in urban design, city planning, and architecture, economics, political and cultural studies, journalism, sociology and other related fields

Course aim

The workshop is aimed at elaboration of the spatial development scenarios for ‘Mystetskyi Arsenal’ established by the interdisciplinary teams under the curator’s and tutors’ guidance including:

a/ spatial development ("hard transformations"): project-planning concepts that should lead to long-term and step-by-step transformations of certain buildings and spaces of Mystetskyi Arsenal taken the current challenges and opportunities into consideration

b/ experience development ("soft transformations"): proposals for the creation and usage of the Arsenal spaces and buildings, strategically aimed to create new experience and interaction with the space of Mystetskyi Arsenal.