Teachers and students of the International College of Arts and Communication and the Institute for Humanities Education and Information Technology will present their project “n + 1: the formula for habitation” in the open workshops of the Bauhaus.
"N + 1" consists of 12 mini-studies of public spaces of various sizes, from the living room to Zaryadye. The students applied the methods of speculative design in their work, and the results were presented in the form of art objects. This approach, according to the project leaders, whose word is below, helps to concentrate on emotional and sensory experiences.
Elizaveta Zemlyanova
artist, dean of the faculties of design and photography at IGUMO, curator of the International Festival
DOCA contemporary art:
The theme proposed by the curators of the Bauhaus, "Habitat", lies in the field of our creative interests. In working on the project, the most interesting thing was to find points of contact between architecture, art and pedagogy. I would very much like the "n + 1" project to become the beginning of the discussion and change the attitude towards public spaces.
Anastasia Petrova
architect, dean of the MKIK College of Architecture, head of the TZAM Architects Architectural Bureau:
Despite the upcoming exhibition in Dessau, this big project is just beginning for us. When we got down to work, it turned out that the topic was inexhaustible: the problems of public spaces are so urgent today. The method we have chosen is the most interesting to me: we talk about architecture in the language of contemporary art. This is done in order to draw attention to the emotional component of public spaces and their sensory perception by people. I call our project sensory urbanism.
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The project will be exhibited at the Bauhaus from February 24 to March 1, a detailed website has been created for it. We propose to get acquainted with the results remotely.
n + 1: future
Arsen Aloyan, MKIK Design College
The authors of this part of the study tried to imagine the complete absence of public spaces. It turned out something similar to a Rubik's cube: each person is in his own cell, the cells are tightly adjacent to each other, but in order to move, the other must make room for your step. The model is clearly illustrated by traffic jams. If this hypothesis is realized, and public spaces of various sizes disappear, each of us will be trapped in his own individual cell.
The project will be presented in the form of a Rubik's cube cast in parts from transparent silicone.
n + 1: connections / communications
Arsen Aloyan, Maria Savostyanova, MKIK College of Design
The authors analyzed the amount of common spaces in traditional housing - a Russian northern hut and in a modern apartment.
It turned out that almost the entire space of the hut was common, family members were forced to be together. In modern apartments, there is more and more personal space and less and less common space. Meanwhile, it has been proven: the more often people see each other, the less family problems. Anxiety, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction and sexual promiscuity in adolescents are directly dependent on the time involved in communication with their parents.
n + 1: point of attraction
Edgar Martirosyan, Faculty of Design, IGUMO, Elena Platonova, Faculty of Photography, IGUMO
Every public space must have a point of attraction, otherwise it is marginalized. In ancient times, the place of gathering was the altar of the ancestors, then it was replaced by a hearth, a common table, etc. Having studied the shapes of ancient altars, the authors created an “altar of everyday life”, which is a cylindrical bowl with a silicone tablecloth. The result is a meaningful image in which many cultural archetypes are guessed.
Students exhibited the altar in various public places and recorded the reaction of people: the altar attracted someone's attention, but mostly people went on about their business. This suggested that Walter Gropius's prediction about the onset of the era of the nomadic individual came true: the modern city dweller is always in a hurry somewhere, spending most of the time in travel.
The study posed the question: does a modern person need public spaces or does he have enough safe and aesthetically designed “runs” from point A to point B?
n + 1: extrude / extrude
Ksenia Tolstobokova, student of the MKIK College of Design
Having studied the social housing of the Soviet and modern times, the authors came to the conclusion that the common room has turned from a place that unites family members into a master's bedroom or individual space. The main attribute of such a bedroom-living room is a folding sofa. A public space is now considered a table in a cramped kitchen. Does this situation contribute to the unity of people?
This part of the project will be represented by a silicone mold, through which he will demonstrate a scene from the film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" with the same sofa.
n + 1: physiological state
Victoria Rubaeva, MKIK Design College; Elena Platonova, Faculty of Photography, IGUMO
Studying the noises of urban spaces, the authors found that obsessive / excessive / unpleasant sounds make people move faster in order to avoid exposure to stimuli, which often leads to migration from one uncomfortable place to another.
The research will be represented by silicone molds exuding the sounds of Moscow public spaces, and on the project website you can see
inverted videos, which help to concentrate not on the image, but on the noise that you often do not notice.
n + 1: involvement / group / individual
Alena Sorokina, Faculty of Design, IGUMO
A person who comes to a public place should be able to join other people, to feel a part of what is happening. By visualizing these reflections, the authors recalled the game of caching that connects people around the world. According to the rules, a participant who finds a cache can take its contents for himself, but must also leave something of his own for the next participants.
Items found in parks and on the streets of Moscow, embedded in silicone cubes, will be hidden in various places in the Bauhaus school. And the items found there will arrive in Moscow. This is how a symbolic exchange of parts of the public spaces of Dessau and Moscow will take place.
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zooming 1/6 n 1: involvement / group / individual © Alena Sorokina, Department of Design, IGUMO
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zooming 2/6 n 1: involvement / group / individual © Alena Sorokina, Faculty of Design, IGUMO
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zooming 3/6 n 1: involvement / group / individual © Alena Sorokina, Department of Design, IGUMO
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zooming 4/6 n 1: involvement / group / individual © Alena Sorokina, Faculty of Design, IGUMO
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zooming 5/6 n 1: involvement / group / individual © Alena Sorokina, Department of Design, IGUMO
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zooming 6/6 n 1: involvement / group / individual © Alena Sorokina, Faculty of Design, IGUMO
n + 1: time
Elena Platonova, Department of Photography, IGUMO; Ekaterina Tetekina, MKIK Design College
How much time do we spend in public space before leaving? A living room in an apartment, a courtyard of a high-rise building, a quarter square, a city park or a square today is a place of pastime or transit of people? What mental footprints do people leave in public space? The authors observed visitors to Zaryadye Park and tried to establish how much time they spend in certain parts of it.
n + 1: tourism / transit
Daria Pristupa, MKIK College of Design
This time, Zaryadye analyzed the behavior of visitors. Crowds of nomadic tourists, tents with Chinese souvenirs and fast food - is this what the locals expect from city parks? At the Bauhaus, the study will be presented with an installation of hundreds of symbolic objects - souvenir keychains and coffee cups molded from silicone.
n + 1: no public space / commerce
Varvara Belousova, Helga Vazim, Architectural College MKIK
It is difficult to imagine a modern park or square without commerce. But which dominates: public or profit-making? The authors believe that there has been a substitution of concepts: on the example of the reconstruction of Soviet cinemas in Moscow, it became clear that the term "leisure center" is used to advertise shopping centers under construction. At the same time, city "malls" swallow up the real public spaces of the city - squares and squares. An example is the construction of a shopping center on the site of the former Sofia cinema.
At the Bauhaus school, the study will be presented in the form of a silicone installation with a luminous open / closed sign.
n + 1: mass movement / utopia
Sofia Kiseleva, MKIK Design College; Varvara Belousova, Helga Vazim, Architectural College MKIK
The study focuses on the influence of ideology on public spaces and the contribution of politicians to solving the problem of social housing. Participating in various processions, the authors noticed that urban spaces become politically "charged", and people, like particles under the influence of an electric current, are attracted to various "fields" of the city.
The exhibition will feature an installation of busts of state leaders (Lenin, Khrushchev, Putin), the form will refer to decisions regarding the issue of resettlement of people: densification of apartments under Lenin, typical mass construction under Khrushchev, renovation of housing under Putin.
n + 1: sharing
Daria Shchepanovich, MKIK Design College
Daria researched the behavior of students in the canteen of the MKIK and the canteen of the Bauhaus. The result is two videos that will be shown at the exhibition.
N + 1: ratio / scale
Maria Savostyanova, MKIK Design College
The authors calculated the area of the courtyard area between the two "Khrushchevkas" in Northern Izmailovo, subject to "renovation". Then they calculated the area of the courtyard of 30-storey buildings built according to the same program for the renovation of the housing stock in the neighboring quarter. It turned out that the area of public space per apartment was reduced by more than three times.
The study will be presented in the form of a silicone installation: an image of an urban land per inhabitant.
