sharjah UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

American University of Sharjah

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Talin HAZBER: For Bedouin poets, the desert is not an arena of war but a place of community. It isn’t not a site of alienation and exile but a location for self-fulfillment and meditation. They don’t see it as a devoid of nature but consider it full of life. The desert in its presence or absence is power, a nomad source of power that’s always shifting and changing forms. This research speculates the notion of camouflage which is, the means of obscuring, screening objects so that they are lost in their surroundings. The location is the outskirts of any busy city, in a site that by its nature is isolated and of a desert nature. I was fascinated by the desert and how one can’t easily lose the sense of direction, space and views.

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vienna AUSTRIA

Bart Hess (1984) explores several fields combining material studies, animation and photography. With his designs he is able to use new and existing materials in a very innovative way and he seems to tap into new worlds. His work is of international stature, he finds and creates its own stage and international collaborations with prestigious names such as Lady Gaga, Palais de Tokyo, Iris van Herpen, and Nick Knight. With his work he obtained an independent position in the (fashion) world.

Bart HESS, “Work in Progress”
Thursday, 12/13
7.00 pm / Lichthof 2
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, AUSTRIA

murcia SPAIN

European University of Madrid (UEM)

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Juan José SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ: Flesh_tanbul is a proposition for the subaquatic archeological park of Yenikapi in Istanbul. The grounds of a forgotten harbor for more than 16 centuries restructured into a subaquatic museum transited through a hammam. We face the preservation by the evolution of a new cultural tourism where history and body create an emphatic bond. Flesh_tanbul folds with the exterior, it flows towards the landscape, not imitating its forms but its evolutionary process.

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new york NEW YORK

Join Eyebeam Art + Technology Center for a public presentation and reception as they launch their latest initiative, Computational Fashion in New York. Bringing together artists, scientists, technologists and the fashion industry, Computational Fashion explores cutting edge ideas at the convergence of fashion and creative technology.

“An Introduction to Computational Fashion: Transforming design, textiles and the social experience around wearable technology” w/ Gabi ASFOUR, Sabine SEYMOUR, & Katherine ISBISTER
Wednesday, 12/12
6.00 pm / Eyebeam Art + Technology Center
540 W. 21st St.
New York, NY 10011

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london UNITED KINGDOM

What does architecture do in a world in which we are nowhere and everywhere at the same time? How can architecture make us at home in a world marked by the continual movement of goods, people, and ideas? Certainly by moving beyond the stand-alone, monumental building. In this lecture, Aaron Betsky will survey how not just architects, but makers of various kinds are rethinking, reusing, and opening up our world.

Aaron BETSKY, “Architecture in the Floating World”
Wednesday, 12/12
5.30–7.00 pm / Christopher Ingold Auditorium
The Bartlett School of Design
UCL Chemistry Building
20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ

mexico city MEXICO

This portal, conceived through spatial design, activated by the city dwellers and the everyday stimuli of Mexico City’s life, becomes a new public piece in one of the city’s most important avenues, Paseo de la Reforma.

Nescafé comissioned 8 artists (Francisco Serrano, Mario Schjetnan, Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta, Fernanda Canales, Manuel Cervantes, Alejandro Quintanilla and Alejandro Castro) to develop specific installations with the basic requirement of utilizing a maximum of 1500 metal coffee mugs.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

Peter Cook lecture series, “Zones of Investigation.” Lecture one, “Comfortable Zones: The Near, the Nostalgic, the Knee-jerk, the ‘Back Pocket.’” The first of four lectures by Sir Peter Cook exploring a series of forays into the question of architectural inspiration. Tickets are free and can be reserved in advance online. Please bring your printed ticket to gain entry to the lecture. Returns may be available on the door.

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Peter COOK, "Comfortable Zones"
Wednesday, 12/12
7.30–8.00 pm / Christopher Ingold Auditorium
The Bartlett School of Design
UCL Chemistry Building
20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ

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chicago ILLINOIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Richard BLACKWELL: Grottos are group of works included in a 3 Part exhibition series of the same name, which exhibited In Australia and Chicago in 2010–11.

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cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Certain Aspects of Architectural Form is an exhibition showing fifteen selected projects of the office of William O’Brien Jr. developed between 2009-2012. On display are fifteen illuminated diptychs of architectural visualizations, fifteen ideograms, and a comprehensive catalogue of the selected works. William O’Brien Jr. is the Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture 2012-2013 (American Academy in Rome); Principal, William O’Brien Jr. LLC; Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Architecture.

William O’BRIEN Jr., “Certain Aspects of Architectural Form”
Through Friday, 12/21
9.00 am-6.00 pm / Keller Gallery
MIT School of Architecture and Planning
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

American University of Sharjah
critic: George KATODRYTIS

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Rami ALOTAIBI: This project utilizes the tectonic nature of a machine and contrasts it with the complexity of the human system. Drawing inspiration from the idea of human landscapes, this project operates on the simplicity of a hybrid, of which its properties are exploited into the creation of complex, flexible geometrical hybrids that adapt and map their surroundings. These hybrids are examined within the context of Port Rashid in an attempt of gentrifying it into the hub which initiated the life of the city that it beholds.

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