Studio Andreco and Climate Art Project (CAP) has been involved in the writing part of the Floating University Berlin (FUB) project, together with the Raum Labor and other partners, since the beginning in 2017. The project received a grant from the Bauhaus Institute and started in 2018. The artistic intervention of Andreco Studio and Climate Art Project at FUB has been curated by Dorothee Halbrock. Andreco Studio and CAP have been in charge of developing symbols and flags for the FUB and to directing a collective parade for the official inauguration of the FUB to the public. Two theoretical workshops were held on the future ecological perspectives of the FUB and the urban area of Berlin. A screen-printing workshop and a construction workshop were held to realise the flags and the instruments for the FUB and the parade. The parade was realised at the end of the first group of workshops and rehearsals. A second group of workshops on radical imagination and speculative ecologies about viruses, bacteria, mutualism and commons was realised in September 2018.

With ANDRECO studio and CAP, Floating University transforms itself into an imaginary indigenous society created to share experiences and practices that aim to find new thoughts and future scenarios for a sustainable city. Within the workshop the participants produce new symbols for the community and space. These symbols will be printed on the flags and the inauguration ceremony will take place with them. Based on theoretical inputs on art and science in times of climate change, participants will analyze the site from an interdisciplinary point of view: artistic, scientific and eco-critical data, collection, information and stories around the rainwater basin. Later they will develop new symbols for the community: using techniques of minimal abstraction and symbolic drawing, they design and produce the flags themselves with symbolic images. At the end a performance is developed to celebrate the opening of the floating university and to install community flags on the top of the floating structures, visible from afar.

ANDRECO is interested in the relationship between man and nature, between the built environment and the natural landscape.

May 4 – 10, 11 – 17 It is also possible to participate in parts of the workshops.

PROGRAM

4th – On-site research from a multidisciplinary point of view

5th – On-site research and drawings

6th – Designing the new symbols for the Floating University

7th – Screen printing workshop – print your designs

8th – Rehearsal of the show

9th – Rehearsal of the show and photo shoot

10th – Rehearsal of the show and show at 18:00

Dettaglio

workshop + performance

Anno

2018

Location

The Floating University – Berlino