Deadline: 7 December 2019

The Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre - KÉK together with LEAP Collective invites contributions to the workshops accompanying the exhibition The Art of Joining: Teamwork. The two-day workshop to be held between 10-11 December aims to create a platform for the exchange of knowledge on historical and contemporary collaborative practices in architecture and design. We welcome contributions from groups and individuals in any form, conceived in relation to the three thematic sections of the workshops:

[1] Factory: How do we work cooperatively? -- This workshop will focus on understanding modes of collective production, starting with the stark contrast between capitalist systems of factory labour and communist work brigades, juxtaposing their influences on architectural production. Drawing on historical case studies, the session will engage with contemporary issues through the question of ownership and authorship in the collective work in the past and in the present of global knowledge sharing infrastructures.

[2] Network: How do we organize? -- We will explore the network as both a figure of collaboration and a form of labor in this workshop. Working from Konrad Wachsmann’s concept of the interdisciplinary web, we will ask how collaborators past and present have built connections across geographic and disciplinary distances. How has the network been produced historically as an effect of technologies such as the telephone, fax, and airplane? Now, when networking routinely takes place online, what advantages might exist in sharing space and being present together? We invite contributors to reflect on networks and networking in their own practices or as observed in historical cases.

[3] School: How do we learn together? -- In this workshop we would like to discuss and experiment with collaborative methods of learning. Taking Konrad Wachsmann’s strictly designed educational formats as a starting point, we ask if there is a learning method that matches the collaborative design-process in architectural and design production? Sharing, re-reading and re-assembling information are key techniques in our knowledge production. Through historical case-studies and contemporary practices we will (and you are invited to) discuss the tools that serve today’s global knowledge network.

No entry fee

Details:
http://kek.org.hu/en/projekt/teamwork/