By karenmmartin on situated
Following on from the ‘Why Wait?‘ workshop we ran at the Bartlett in July, we are organising ‘Betwixt‘, a workshop which will take place at University of California, Irvine on 16 September. While Why Wait considered waiting as an in-between activity, Betwixt will centre around the more spatial aspects of in-between-ness and asks how technology might help us to recognize and expand the richness of in-between, transitional spaces?
The workshop will explore the frequently encountered transitional spaces of Orange County – the sidewalks, highways, lifts, buses, tunnels, stairwells, bike paths, parking lots, lobbies, airports, waiting rooms, train stations, and drive-thrus. But we do more than just pass through these spaces, by acting in and reacting to each of these “non-places” they acquire a character of their own – they become places. A particularly high curb becomes a skater’s favorite haunt. A traffic jam on the 405 gives you the chance to read your newspaper and drink a coffee. The path cut through the sandy beach attracts groups of rollerbladers.
Designers, architects, artists, computer and social scientists will undertake an investigation into how technology can enrich or subvert the multiple uses of transitional spaces through a day of collaborative fieldwork and design.
Our goal isn’t the production of “practical” or implementable designs for transitional spaces – instead we hope to generate speculative and exploratory design scenarios that might act as future inspiration or critique.
Read more about it here.. http://www.inbetweeness.org/betwixt/
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