Proposal for Ideas City Athens residency program

Name of Collaborative Civic city network

Number of People in Collaborative for this residency five people (two are direct actors and the other three would like to participate from distance)

List of names Danielle Rosales, 166 bs Rue de la Roquette, 75011 Paris, France. mail@studio-rosales.eu

0049151 147,93 772

Robin Coenen, 166 bs Rue de la Roquette, 75011 Paris, France. mail@robincoenen.de

004917698516254

Ruedi Baur, Vera Baur Kocckot, 39 Rue Marceau, 93100 Montreuil, France svb@civic-city.org

Websitewww.civic-city.org

Contact: Danielle Rosales 004915114793772 Skypename: dan02053

Civc city is an independent association and evolving network of designers, architects, sociologists, political scientists, geographers, urban planners, etc. which has been founded 2011 by Ruedi Baur, Vera Baur and Imke Plinta in Zurich. The network organises research courses as for example CAS Civic Design at the Head in Geneva (Haute école d’art et de design) and fosters research and projects related to the topic of city, city planning, urbanism, etc. in different domains. Because of its participatory interest Civic city offers a platform for transdiciplinary exchange.

One of the attempts is to research the evolution of cohabitations, the dynamics of urbanism and urban spaces, their visual representation and the planning of and within cities. Works are presented in publications, but also realised through (physical) interventions and prototypes. In the context of urban spaces and realities we are assigned with the question if visions can be developed (for example on the basis of a prototype), that help to draw a different picture of reality and thereby per chance make a real difference. It is the question of substance, if a different visual description can help to create another view of reality.

By crystallising superposed entities we may be able to visualise the yet untold. It is less the matter of clarifying definite idenities than to search for proper forms of representations that visualise the difficulty of the complex, multilayered identities, issues and dynamics especially in cities that are confronted for example with political, social and/or eco-nomic challanges. We see it as our effort to learn from the other to understand the invis-ible structures besides the impacts of the specific challange of each city, because we see the importance of searching for a solution that probably has influence on assignable political and social issues over the borders.

MOTIVATION.

The difficulty of decoding is composed of the intricacy of the narration itself. For this we cartography identities in urban landscapes in order to retrace, understand and uncover other narrations. The underlying noti-on is to formulate possible connections between urban structure, urban development and society which are affected by the terms of political, economic and social crisis.

Our recent research Spatial Codes focuses on the question of narration and representation and especially how professionals can create tools that enables them to open up to urban landscapes. In the Ukraine, we created us a tool that helped us to communicate as outsiders within a foreign space. With the use of analysis of visual language of Mariupol, which suffers from a strong binary narration of conflict and national identity, we were able to detect certain codes that helped us to under-stand specific aspects and then act in sequenced interventions within it without speaking the same language. Developping our research Spa-tial Codes we strongly believe that by detecting urban codes, social phenomena can be crystallised. For acting and working in the urban space we need to find proper representations of the other.

In a time where everybody can be the photographer, we tend to forget the strong impact of images. The image is part of the visual language and by understanding this language we may be able to (re)define the grammar and the reading of urban space.

Given the possibility of participitation we see an mind openening expe-rience with working, interacting with the local community and living in situ.Having a look on current medial representation about Greece (f.e. eu-ropean point of view) we feel the importance of a borderless positive mind shift to help embracing the strength of local actors. We have deep interest of participating at the residency program «IdeasCity-Athens» as we are aware of the deep complexity of problems and dynamcisof urban landscapes and the question of how this diversity is represented.

CONTRIBUTION. Direct contributers for IdeasCity AthensDanielle Rosales and Robin Coenen are working as design researchers within the context of the Civc city. Danielle Rosales is a designer and has a transdiciplinary background of sociology. Robin Coenen is a designer focused on data visualisation and type design. In the last year they were researching, in context of the residency program Architecture Ukraine initiated by the organisation Izolyatsia, about the city Mariupol that is directly located at the conflict zone of the East Ukraine. In this context they analysed the visual language of the city in order to be able to crystallize superposed, yet untold stories. Being supported also by the Goethe Institute, they initiated several local interventions in the city and also were able to present their current research at the biennale in venice this year. In addition they started a deep research Spatial Codes that focuses on the diversity of narrations about urban landscapes.

Indirect contributers for IdeasCity AthensBeing a german sociologist Vera Baur Kockot operates between research and interdisciplinary practice of the issue of culture, science and politics. Together with Ruedi Baur, she founded the research institute Civic city that is located in Zurich, Switzerland. As head of the institute she also works as a consultant for projects about design, architecture and urbanism that are developed in the ateliers Integral Ruedi Baur Zurich and Paris.

Together with Pippo Lionni and Philippe Delis, the franco-swiss designer Ruedi Baur founded the network of the Integral ateliers and also his own ateliers: Integral Ruedi Baur Paris and Zurich. He is dedicated to the force of interdisciplinary design and works as an art director in both ateliers. As a professor, Dr. Hc. from the University of Laval in Quebec, he develops his research in the areas of identification and representation of public institutions and systems of political territories, multilingual environments, and more broadly, the question of representation and guidance systems. He teaches at the university of decorative arts in Paris where he coordinates the design and multimedia department. In addition he is head of the post diplome Civic Design at the university of arts and design in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2011 he founded the Civic City Institute together with Vera Baur Kockot.

CONTRIBUTERS.

ARCHITECTURE UKRAINE. Research on urban landscapes and local interventions

How do you act within a space as an outsider? What do you understand if you do not even speak the language and therefore cannot communicate with the habitants? Our research opened a truly new perspective on how to read and act within a space which outsiders will never be able to decode because of its deep complexity. And with taking into account Mariupols unique position in the Ukraine-conflict one can see that the communication in and about the city relies on a binary narration. With sequenced interventions in situ we were able to decode some spatial codes.

THE CITY AS AN OPEN PARTITION. LA VILLE COMME PARTITION OUVERTE.DIE STADT ALS OFFENE PARTITUR.

A score is a special form of representation. It is associated with instructions and looking ahead instead of backwards: in the planning of the upcoming event. The "open score" goes one step further: it articulates the process of making new realities and its indeterminacy. In its most recent publication Christopher Dell outlined a "open city-score". The term does not relate to the presentation of an urban sound texture, noris interpreted in an aesthetic sense or in the sense of music programming the city. Instead, urban processes are visualized in a new form, by a musical kind of conception of space is used as a filter and perspective; because temporality and the dimension of the active actions are at the unveiling of visual structures practical, urban phenomena important components.

SIGNS FOR PEACE. An Impossible Visual Encyclopedia

Can one visualize peace? Are there signs, symbols, and images that pre-sent a image of peace as opposed to receiving their meanings in oppositi-on to war? Over several years of research, there has been intensively ex amens about representation and representability of peace and has compiled a compre-hensive collection of images. In order to include a number of historical, cultural, and political perspectives, the archival aspect is supplemented by workshops in crisis regions.

Edited by Ruedi Baur and Vera Baur Kockot, Design2Context, 2012Lars Müller Publishers

SIGNS FOR PEACE. An Impossible Visual Encyclopedia

JOURNAL DESJUNGLES. Editions no. 2, 3, and 4

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JOURNAL DESJUNGLES. Editions no. 2, 3, and 4

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MULTILINGUALTYPOGRAPHY I - II

In a globalized world, where goods, people and knowledge travel more than ever, asian, latin, and arabic characters and visual cultures are increasingly appearing side by side and mixing more often. The coexistence of different visual cultures is now part ofour daily lives, whether in universities, fairs, airports, or international institutions and urban districts. Which practices, knowledge, and interdisciplinary and transcultural skills are necessary to create and design in a globaliSed world in an adequate and differentiated manner?How can we create a respectful, equitable relati-onship between Chinese and western visual elements that does not invol-ve unilateral authoritarianism?

MONS. La Phrase

Do you think that literature can change life? We have imagined a project to bring the words out of books, and breathe life into them. So we invented a “writing territory”. Literature is material. It is movement. It’s about writing, before reading. We reoffered literature to the city where it was born and bring it everywhere and let all writers be present. The urban project creates a new literary space by writing a sentence for 10 km in the city. A sentence written with all writers of the region. The project will be finished at the end of the year 2015.

WORKSHOPS. 2011/2012/2013

In a globalized world, where goods, people and knowledge travel more than ever, asian, latin, and arabic characters and visual cultures are increasingly appearing side by side and mixing more often. The coexistence of different visual cultures is now part ofour daily lives, whether in universities, fairs, airports, or international institutions and urban districts. Which practices, knowledge, and interdisciplinary and transcultural skills are necessary to create and design in a globaliSed world in an adequate and differentiated manner?How can we create a respectful, equitable relati-onship between Chinese and western visual elements that does not invol-ve unilateral authoritarianism?

*Founded in 2011 (Zurich) by Ruedi Baur, Vera Baur and Imke Pinta following up the Institute De-sign2Context, which was finally closed in 2011

Workshops

Ruedi Baur - Civic CityAdvanced Itinerant Learning Programme For Street Arts // Quartiers CréatifsMarseille - Provence 2012

Civic DesignÉtude de cas Nègrepelisse – L‘écrit dans la ville2011-2012

Workshop 3 Civic Design - Cairo - Multilingual TypographyCollaboration with GU, German University2013

Workshop 4 Civic Design - Geneva - MultilingualWorkshop with Ulrike Felsing and Roman Wilhelm 2013

Workshop 5 Civic Design - Mode diplomatique - Pariswith Phillippe Rekacewicz2013

Workshop 6 Civic Design _ SofiaPublic Mineral Water in sofia in collaboration with Poststudio Sofia2013

Projects

Civic City Cahiers 2010 - 2013

Desorientierung/Orientierung 1+2, Ruedi Baur und Vera Baur Kockot, Lars Müller Publishers. 2008

Meine, deine schönste Stadt, Editors: Ruedi Baur and Margarete von Lupin, Lars Müller Publishers. 2010

Journal des Jungles no.2 (2012)Ruedi Baur, Vera Baur, Afrouz Razavi, Rahaf Demanski, Pejman Civic City, PEROU, Ensad Lab Paris

Journal des Jungles no.3 (2014)Ruedi Baur, Vera Baur, Afrouz Razavi, Rahaf Demanski, Pejman Civic City, PEROU, Ensad Lab Paris

Journal des Jungles no.4 (2015)Ruedi Baur, Vera Baur, Afrouz Razavi, Danielle Rosales, Rahaf Demanski Civic City, PEROU, Ensad Lab Paris

La ville comme partion ouverte/Die Stadt als offene Partitur The city as an open partition Author: Christopher Dell. Concept: Ruedi Baur, Vera Baur. Graphic Concept: Ruedi Baur, Danielle Rosales, Robin Coenen. Lars Müller Publishers, Switzerland. 2016

CV – CIVIC CITY

CVResearch

Multilingual Typography I - II2010-2012

Civic Design 2011-2012

Civic Design2013-2014

CAS- Visible/InvisibleHEAD (école des artes et design Géneve)2014/2015

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* 02.05.1987 in Berlin, Germany

2006 qualification for university entrance (Abitur)

2006 - 2011 Study of Sociology and English Studies Bachelor of Arts RWTH Aachen, Germany «wars and conflicts in Somalia. A theoretical reflection based on the zivilisatory hexagon by Dieter Senghaas.»

2011 - 2016 Study of communication design Bachelor of Arts FH University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Germany, department of design Jan. - Septembre 2014 Space of art gallery (Sparkasse Aachen) curator: Helga School Working in graphic design

Sep 2012 - Oct 2013 FH University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Germany, department of design Prof. Christoph Scheller Working in Social Media

Oct 2013 - Septembre 2014 FH University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Germany, department of design Prof. Ilka Helmig Working in graphic design

Septembre 2014 - March 2015 Internship Intégral Ruedi Baur Paris since April 2015 Researcher Civic City Freelance Intégral Ruedi Baur

July-August 2015 Residency Program Architecture Ukraine

May-July 2016 Biennale Venice Architecture Ukraine - Beyond the Front

Robin Coenen

* 12.05.1989 in Bonn, Germany

2008 qualification for university entrance (Abitur)

2008 - 2009 volunteered community service Ghana, Westafricart project for streetchildren

2009 - 2011 various jobs in community service 2011 - 2016 Study of communication design , Bachelor of Arts FH University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Germany, department of design

2013 - 2014 Assistence Atelier Annette Sauermann Feb 2014 - Aug 2014 term abroad ZHdK, Switzerland

Sep 2014 - Mar 2015 Internship at Neue Gestaltung Communication and Interaction Design

Since Mar 2015 Researcher /New Media Civic City Freelance Intégral Ruedi Baur

July-August 2015 Residency Program Architecture Ukraine

May-July 2016 Biennale Venice Architecture Ukraine - Beyond the Front

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