The laboratory in situ 2014, MOCKUPS, focuses on the possibilities of architecture to produce 1:1 scale
models; spaces that even if proposed in the correct size are still models, they are not organized as
final productions but as test environments or as non-sufficient places; they are programmatically built in order
to realize a time rupture or to lead to distant or non-existing environments.
Such spaces include construction prototypes but also idiosyncratic photographic studios and other
representations, consciously orienting to a “next reality” to be more possible than the one that is perceived
inside them. A relation to a fake character is the stronger impression in the mockup condition. Nevertheless
every mockup is presented in order to construct thoroughly the exact version of a different fakeness. The
mockup proposes a different point of view than the one in which its visitor participates. Mockups show
structures at their normal size while keeping the consciousness that they are fake; a more or less hidden
theatricality is present in the condition of mockup. “Provisory Final” impression is in many different senses an
important part of our reality in the age when space is augmented with digital information. The strengthening
theatrical character of the everyday and its consciousness is another aspect of a future mockup culture: we
can be able soon to live in unfinished settings that could be augmented by information differently.
Furthermore the orientation of this studio poses the question concerning the possibility, the problems and the
politics that would go together with an inhabitation of mockups.
The workshop will produce such mockup systems; participants will propose models and representations of
mockup spaces and define their scenographic status.
Kam workshops is a nonprofit initiative that takes place every summer in Chania, Greece and brings together
practitioners, academics and students of architecture, design, fine arts and cultural studies for an intensive
studio.
MOCKUPS workshop will host public lectures by Aristide Antonas (Associate Professor, Department of
Architecture, University of Thessaly), Katia Arfara (Artistic Director of Theatre & Dance, Onassis Cultural
Center), Heike Schuppelius (Associate Professor, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (HfG)).
University, Berlin).
MOCKUPS closing event with the projects’ presentation and exhibition will take place on
the 22th of August in Megalo Arsenali.
For more information you can visit the website www.kamworkshops.com or contact KAM Workshops at
Organised by the Architecture Syndicate
Co-organizing institution: KEPPEDIH-CAM
Coordination: Elina Axioti, Evi Sougkara
Design: Lamb and Lamp
supported by:
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