OniricaLab: Material Girl

The third OniricaLab workshop is a collaboration with German architects Umschichten exploring "fluid architecture".

From 28 March to 1 April, OniricaLab will host their third in a series of five-day workshops in Verona. Entitled Material Girl and taking in place in collaboration with German architects Umschichten, "the workshop where architecture becomes fluid" will be undertaken by 15 handpicked participants.

Organised in collaboration with Verona's City Council by the associations Fuoriscala, Interzona, OndeQuadre and Reverse, the programme will "start from the assumption that everything already exists" and will work from Umschichten's stance that re-organising, re-furnishing and re-placing what is around us are the basis of "fluid architecture". The architectural studio from Stuttgart, founded by Lukasz Lendzinski and Peter Weigand, will be asking the participants to look for new strategies to find materials, location and human resources in order to realise a collective project somewhere within one square kilometre from the workshop headquarters. Held in English, with Italian and German speakers also catered for, the workshop is open to everyone but is primarily aimed at students from design, architecture and communication universities. The organisers will select the 15 candidates on the strength of their CVs and portfolios from applications sent to info@fuoriscala.com before March 23rd.

Following in the success of TASTEFULL (in collaboration with Studio FormaFantasma and AnatoMY (with Studio Sovrappensiero), this promises to be a gripping workshop as it will encourage those in attendance to consider buildings "not as finished realities, but rather as a fluid, a step, a partial and temporary result in the process of appearing and disappearing".
Umschichten, <em>Emesis, innards leaving the house</em>, 2009
Umschichten, Emesis, innards leaving the house, 2009
Umschichten, <em>Villa Kowncai</em>, inhabited installation, 2010
Umschichten, Villa Kowncai, inhabited installation, 2010
Umschichten, <em>Mindestens haltbar bis</em>, pre-cycling, 2009
Umschichten, Mindestens haltbar bis, pre-cycling, 2009

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