1. Hand luggage (design/ small object scale)/ individual work (1-2 days)
-Make an architectural gift for a Japanese student
(we will bring these gifts with us, so they have to fit in a suitcase)
- Find/ make a suitcase, and make (inside) your favourite architecture, the architecture
you think is of best quality, or highest necessity in the world. The person who
open the suitcas, will experience and understand your meaning and message.
All means are used: materials, scale model, sound 2-dimesion, 3-dimension etc.
/ Discussion, critic.
2. Everyday monument ( Shape/ sculpture/ human scale, space)/ individual work (2-3 days)
-Design & Make an object, installation, space, furniture that relates to your body
and personality, so that the whole structure expresses the qualities
you are as a person. All presentation means; Scale, contrast, open,
close, inside, outside, view, light, material, movement etc.
-A person that finds and uses this piece will understand who/ how this person was,
what was important to him/ her, and what was the life philosophy at the time of creation.
3. Container (space, light, view) / individual work (3-5 days)
- Design a space on a chosen suitable city site,
where this monument ( from task 2) is placed
inside. This installation houses the object in a meaningful/ useful way,
and comments on the surrounding situation ( is site specific; natural
light, society, materials, movement etc. )
- A person who enters this space will understand how to use the
space and how to understand the silent monument, and feels
the consequence and reason of the two being placed exactly there.
According to the map; divide the Trondheim city into
12 areas like a clock; every student will have a section
and one hour of time. We will go through the projects in 12 hours,
one hour/ project.