VER. 01
APRIL 6-22, 2017 @ Temporary (Kolmas Linja 7, Helsinki Finland)
Dialectics of Space (D.O.S.) is a project that is able to occupy and transform the architecture that it inhabits; architecture in this case meaning not simply the site of the building but also its organizational structure.
D.O.S. Version 01 inhabited Temporary, a decentralized cultural space with programming consisting of "participatory, experimental forms which may not fit anywhere else". Curation of Temporary happens through its own community network which chooses to pledge or not to pledge Temps (Temporary's alternative digital currency) in order to support events (experiments) in the space. Dialectics of Space permeated this system and the space itself between April 6th 2017 and April 22nd.
During this period of Temporary's settlement, D.O.S. overwhelmed the existing system with programming and installations which drastically transformed the space from what was previously a large open room with sporadic events into a space with different environments that have noticeable effects on social relationships and nearly continuous events. The programming developed for Dialectics of Space (also using Temporary's peer review system) sought create dynamic social utilization of nodes which would be constructed within the existing spatial constraints, modifying the shape of the existing architecture as well as its purpose to accommodate the D.O.S. programming.
D.O.S. Version 01 inhabited Temporary, a decentralized cultural space with programming consisting of "participatory, experimental forms which may not fit anywhere else". Curation of Temporary happens through its own community network which chooses to pledge or not to pledge Temps (Temporary's alternative digital currency) in order to support events (experiments) in the space. Dialectics of Space permeated this system and the space itself between April 6th 2017 and April 22nd.
During this period of Temporary's settlement, D.O.S. overwhelmed the existing system with programming and installations which drastically transformed the space from what was previously a large open room with sporadic events into a space with different environments that have noticeable effects on social relationships and nearly continuous events. The programming developed for Dialectics of Space (also using Temporary's peer review system) sought create dynamic social utilization of nodes which would be constructed within the existing spatial constraints, modifying the shape of the existing architecture as well as its purpose to accommodate the D.O.S. programming.
One particularly successful example of this coalescence of event and node were the Dialectics of Space: Dinner events (see Figure 1) which happened in a purposefully built greenhouse-like structure with an arched ceiling all made of recycled wood and covered in recycled industrial plastics. During the dinner events, a maximum of eight pre-registered, participants would sit down at the table together where they would be brought five courses over the course of about two hours. The entirety of the happening attempted to meld the event and the space into one single entity; participants dialogue was enhanced by the atmosphere that was encapsulated and amplified by the architecture as they consumed playful dishes produced from a laborious process but fueled by experimentation as well as the desire for learning new techniques. In addition to these things, the dinner happenings were also environmental in that they promote sustainable ecological practices (the food, wood and plastic are all waste products) as well as replicating some feelings of being in a natural environment through the audio installation, the smell and feel of the moss.
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Different nodes of Dialectics of Space enhanced and modified the ways in which Temporary's architecture was being used while creating different levels of social space with varying levels of isolation as well as simultaneously employing the other D.O.S. themes (labor, pedagogy, experimentation, play, environment). Implementation of the project's constructed spaces was not done in a manner that fought with the existing functionality of the space, in order to create something entirely new, but attempted to collaborate with the prior utilization of the space, reformatting it so that users would continue to spend time in the space but would do so in the newly created nodes. Temporary's regular visitors therefor had to adapt to the D.O.S. nodes, in contrast to what they have grown accustomed to, and that adaptation created a situation where different social dynamics could be seen through minor architectural modifications to the space.
Below are 3D models of the nodes built for Vol. 1 Dialectics of Space: