A RESEARCH PROPOSAL
This project developed out of the observation of the very unique impulse that the public space of Berlin receives through its blind walls.
Artists and citizens interact with them in many different ways and, within years of artistic, spatial and material explorations, this process obtained relevant
results, creating worldwide famous landmarks and generating new activities starting from the simple - empty - silent - Wall.
This basic and pragmatic urban feature (the wall) marks all the cities and a study on its communicative potential in the field of the public art and performances could be an important suggestions for many disciplines: from art to architecture, from sociology to city planning.
The numerous blind façades that characterise Berlin are treated in different way and from alternative categories of city users, allowing us to an analysis that could focus itself on different points:
- Which kind of interventions can we identify in Berlin? Which materials are used?
- Which kind of consequences does an intervention bring to its sourrounding public space? Is it able to generate a new use or a new perception of the public space? How do the citizens and generally the people experiencing the city perceive it?
- Which kind of locations are chosen for the interventions? Is the architecture qualities of the wall and its position in the city and in the relation of the city infrastructures important for the conceiver of the intervention?
-Who are the active key player of the intervention and what are his aims? Who is the consumer and who is affected from the intervention?
- How does the flow of the time influence the work? How is the permanence and the lasting quality affecting the successfull result of the intervention?
- How is the city administration interpreting these events, and how does it react to them? Could they have a positive influx on the city economy (or do they already have it)? Is it any possible way to use them for a further development of the quality of life in the city?
This project developed out of the observation of the very unique impulse that the public space of Berlin receives through its blind walls.
Artists and citizens interact with them in many different ways and, within years of artistic, spatial and material explorations, this process obtained relevant
results, creating worldwide famous landmarks and generating new activities starting from the simple - empty - silent - Wall.
This basic and pragmatic urban feature (the wall) marks all the cities and a study on its communicative potential in the field of the public art and performances could be an important suggestions for many disciplines: from art to architecture, from sociology to city planning.
The numerous blind façades that characterise Berlin are treated in different way and from alternative categories of city users, allowing us to an analysis that could focus itself on different points:
- Which kind of interventions can we identify in Berlin? Which materials are used?
- Which kind of consequences does an intervention bring to its sourrounding public space? Is it able to generate a new use or a new perception of the public space? How do the citizens and generally the people experiencing the city perceive it?
- Which kind of locations are chosen for the interventions? Is the architecture qualities of the wall and its position in the city and in the relation of the city infrastructures important for the conceiver of the intervention?
-Who are the active key player of the intervention and what are his aims? Who is the consumer and who is affected from the intervention?
- How does the flow of the time influence the work? How is the permanence and the lasting quality affecting the successfull result of the intervention?
- How is the city administration interpreting these events, and how does it react to them? Could they have a positive influx on the city economy (or do they already have it)? Is it any possible way to use them for a further development of the quality of life in the city?