WHAT_ During the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale (22 May – 21 November) OCDI, will run a set of online workshops led by individuals with particular curatorial expertise/interest. The workshops, both their process and outcome, will be our official contribution to the FUTURE SCHOOL of the Korean Pavilion at the Biennale. The workshops will run as ‘location-based proto-researches’ (i.e. scavenger hunt), where topics of the leads will engage and collaborate with the lenses of the local participants, resulting in a set of documentation (atlases). The intention of these workshops is to explore the idea of DIASPORA through topic-based engagements with places and people, simultaneously triggering multiple agendas, interests, and networks. The first round of workshops will be led by, Ainsely Johnston (Basel), Antonio Zedda (Whitehorse), Brandon Bergem & Jeffery Garcia (Toronto), Dale Wiebe (Oslo), Jae Sung Chon (Winnipeg), Jun Shibata (Tokyo), Kent Mundle (Hong Kong), Monica Hutton (Toronto), and William Galloway (Tokyo & Toronto). OCDI will announce new workshops ongoingly throughout the biennale.
WHO_ The workshops are OPEN to anyone who is interested in design and the built environment. The participants can sign up for multiple workshops and can assume any roles (to lead, to contribute, and or to collect) and as many roles as they wish/can during the OCDI Venice 2021.
HOW_ Email your interest to ocdi@stuffgroup.net (you will be invited to a DISCORD server)
For updates visit https://futureschool.kr/en/open-city-design-institute
Open City Design Institute (OCDI) takes the city as its campus. The embodied and charged intellectual, technological, and artful capacities of our cities become its classrooms and crossroads. The enrolled people, or ‘agents’, act as inquisitors as well as instruments, crisscrossing their contexts, accesses, tools, biases, and agendas. Hybrid and nonhierarchical itineraries will be promoted and projected through OCDI programs, generating exposures and networks towards open-hybrid-nonhierarchical alliances. During the Biennale, OCDI will run a proto-program to generate its manifesto and manual for replication through a network of agents, agendas, and projective scripts.