Invisible Borders Moscow Workshop Final Presentation, Summer at Strelka 2013

7/28/2019 Invisible Borders Moscow Workshop Final Presentation, Summer at Strelka 2013

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Invisible Bordersmoscow.bordr.org


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Workshop

Instructors

Nitin Sawhney

Shriya Malhotra

Christo de KlerkMasha Slavnova

Polina Bykhovskaya


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Why investigate invisible borders?

Gain an appreciation for different ways populations inthe city experience urban life.

Understand the enduring influence of historicstructures on urban life.

Inform a design approach that uses and bridgesborders to improve life together.


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How are they produced?

spatial practice

social construction

physical programming

an awareness or consciousness of our actions, actions

of others

Why?

extension of control / regulation through borders

which include or exclude economic ability

to adhere to, support social norms


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trace of historic borders: from frame to network


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Borders in the city

River

Visas/Permits

Behavior Norms

Market


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personal experience of borders


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What border did you last cross? www.projectborders.com


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How do we investigate these borders?


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Body+ Performance


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Body as Personal Boundary

to the UrbanHow do bodies mediate urban space?

- Sense of presence, communal, social or fear

- Wayfinding by examining flow of bodies

- Patterns of regularity vs. disruptive behavior

- Personal borders and thresholds of proximity("Kinosphere") in different urban conditions

- Effect of body characteristics


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Performance Experiments

1. Boundaries inside the Body

2. Boundaries between Bodies

3. Body and Space

4. Collective Bodies in Space


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Game Design+ Transformative Play


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Game Design + Transformative Play

Games are a tool for gathering /sharing information, which can lead toeffective interventions.

Purposes of Games:

Research method

Educational / Informative Interactive Intervention

How can games raise awareness or educate people about unknown spaces,the types of borders in the city or in a market?

On the one hand, we can share tactics to overcome borders. On the otherhand, we can create an interactive way to share the information andconcepts already gathered.


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Game Formats

- Narrative games ex. monopoly

- Puzzles to learn information, data or history ex: trivia

- Card games: based on simple rules ex: memory, snap etc.

- Board games: cranium / pictionary of borders- Design a quest + game in a public space


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How can we design spaces aroundusers by engaging them through aprocess of play to explain moreabout their values, priorities and

requirements?

Participatory Urban Re-planning


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Net Ethnography+ Social Network Analysis


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Feeling as if we sit in Bishkek, Max, shorpo, Lagman ...

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The boundary between smokers and nonsmokers in the form of gazonchik withpotted flowers set on long tables)) soups convincing Napoli salad tasty, but I

wanted more expressive sauce. Service 5 - Maryana O.

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Disgusting corral (or enclosure) for people. Weeks of delay [figure of speech].You need to get in line early in the morning.

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Sites of Investigation

Slavyanskiy Mir - border stories at the edge

Kremlin - invisible extensions of physical walls

Kurskaya Station - bodies, borders and flows


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Slavyanskiy Mir


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migrant experiences


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Kremlin's Invisible Walls


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historic/cultural layer embedded on the walls


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"Yellow lines"

A lot of people walk just between yellow lines on the road.


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different types of control fences


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All helipads within Moscow are situated among the river, forming an aircorridor way used by government. Air transport way shows the influence

of Kremlin in the virtual layer.


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Kurskaya Station


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Socioeconomic borders


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Invisible Borders Moscow Workshop Final Presentation, Summer at Strelka 2013

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