‘Chairs and shadows' with Marina Otero, Anna Pahissa and Ariadna Serrahima is a meeting space on how to imagine a university that doesn't exist, organised as the closing session of the Performative Design course of the 3rd year of the Bachelor of Design, led by Laia Estruch and Ignacio de Antonio Anton, which will take place on Thursday 6 June from 4 pm to 6 pm at Eina Bosc.
The subject of Performative Design has ventured during the academic year 2023-2024 to learn in community, inviting students to think and build from training and the unexpected, in search of an unstable balance, where to deploy other ways of thinking about the rhythm of creation in the academic and teaching environment, other positions from which to transmit knowledge, we have all been students and teachers, we have all learned by moving through space.
The students have been designing possible teachings that could take place in Eina, research topics, etcetera. We wanted these avenues of work that we have opened up to provide us with the conceptual substratum to walk in alternative places to those of traditional instruction. Among other references within what we understand within the umbrella of Radical Pedagogies, we have based ourselves on one of the most influential schools of architecture in Latin America: the School of Architecture and Design of the Catholic University of Valparaíso. There, they managed to forge a unique training model, altering academic paradigms, based on principles such as observation, experimentation and work in the field from the word to the matter, creating experiences in route, by living life intensely and creating from that impulse.
On 6 June we will be joined by Marina Otero, Anna Pahissa and Ariadna Serrahima who will present their research. The event will take place from 4 pm to 6 pm inside a ‘scenic’ set built by the students under the premise of creating a space where to stay, talk and listen and be together where there are pieces that invite us to sit and pieces that create a shelter and protect us from the sun and the air.
‘But man is unthinkable without speech and position’.
Dumb, deaf, blind, brain alone, he would have position and word - God knows how - but he would have it.
Position and word.
Architecture and Poetry’.
O.C.V. School of Architecture, 1972.