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Hidden in the urban fabric: art + architecture: a case study of collaboration in interdisciplinary contexts

Author/Creator

Lehmann, Steffen

Institution

The University of Newcastle. Engineering & Built Environment, School of Architecture and Built Environment

Description

This paper relates to the Conference’s theme of the Exploration of possible (interdisciplinary) worlds, where collaboration flows naturally and partnering delivers benefits for all participants. It contributes to the ongoing debate about installations / interventions in an urban context, and the potential that such new collaborative experiences and interdisciplinary models can present. It discusses the potential that partnering between architects and artists has for creative interaction with a city’s cultural (often derelict) fabric through ‘informal urban design’. It introduces and examines a selection of site-specific installation works in Brisbane (Australia) and Berlin (Germany), which were the results of collaborative practices initiated by the author. These temporary works provoke our comfortable notions of life in cities as well as challenge our understanding of the roles of architecture and art, and their modus operandi. Each presented installation involved the collaboration of at least one artist and one architect. The paper provides insight concerning the organisational process and the interaction of the organisations involved and the behind the scenes activity as to how the curator was able to get the different groups involved, to work together and focus on the project. While working together with a common goal opens up new arenas for artistic exploration, where do the boundaries between art (electronic media art, etc) and architecture / urban design begin and end? Addressing this question of discipline boundary is an essential element in an educational context of interdisciplinary pedagogy, a context in which both projects were initially set. The exhibitions involved teams of established and emerging artists, and students of architecture, visual arts, landscape architecture and urban design. The resulting dialogues and contemporary crossovers between the disciplines have led to new, informal forms of collaborations and ways to understand the urban context. It has also promoted a fresh perspective on the design process, demonstrating the potential of such reciprocal relationships. How do media artists draw inspiration from architecture and vice-versa (e.g. intuition versus analytical approach)? How can disciplinary boundaries best be challenged and transgressed in order to critically re-assess them? How might architects and artists work together in Design+Build Studios and temporary urban interventions in public space, in an interdisciplinary future?

Relation

XII Generative Art International Conference. 10th Generative Art Conference GA2007, Papers (Milan, Italy 12-14 December 2007) p. 255-260

Relation

http://www.generativeart.com/

Date

2007

Publisher

Politecnico Di Milano

Keyword(s)

collaborative design-build studio;  site-specific installations;  interdisciplinary crossover;  partnering between artists and;  reciprocal relationship;  urban public space

Resource Type

conference paper

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35353

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