UNIT 1 MINIMOU, LAND OF STUBLIMENESS

Minimou L an d of S t u b l ime n e ss

Guided Tour by Ariadna Barthe & Antoine Vaxelaire

AA Summer School 3-21 July 2017

Unit 1 Minimou

A STUPLIME LAND MADE OF FRAMES AND THREADS Constructing a new ground in which the NOW will be reveal in its most crude and honest appearences.

The Average Face

Super Symetry

Arty Land

Destructive Calibration

The construction of Minimou starts with the fundamental idea that architectural culture can only exist as the complex interweaving of multiple inputs. Minimou will take this reality litterally and weave a carpet during three weeks.

Politics. Economics. Society.

Cultural. Meta Physical. Anthropological.

We have reach a point in our western culture where the still image seems obsolete; it doesn’t render the complexities of our lives nor does it full-fill our daily need for drama.

From news to art pieces, the video format is gaining a very wide audience, forcing all of us to learn new codes of understanding. Minimou proposes to impose this technique upon architecture and push the moving frame paradigm to extremes.

What if architects became experts in generalities? What would that mean for the form of our production? Could it still be limited to “buildings” and “cities”? Can one define the culture of the Now through tools that have existed for centuries?

Death of Death

Threads 4 Ever

Tip of the Iceberg

Softness

Minimou Co n st r u c ting Stub l imen e ss

Every student is like a thread in a carpet; both indispensable and invisible.

The Still image is as Dead as is Architecture; Time for the Video to Swamp our Lands

AA Summer School 3-21 July 2017

Unit 1 Minimou

STUPIDLY BELIEVING THAT SUBLIMENESS IS IN THE PALM OF OUR HANDS Minimou is nothing else than an endlessly moving Land exposing an absolute Now.

Invisible Infrastructure

Mise-en-Urbanite

INTERCONNECTED

EFFECTIVENESS

CAR P E T

VIDEO

Networking Beyond Facebook

Reality Beyond Thruth

What: Weaving your darkest obsessions of today’s world we will thread a large scale CarpetScape that will ultimetely expose what the Now might actually look like.

What: Your videos will simultaneously record and expose your daily realities. During three weeks, they will give the tempo to our CarpetScape, feeding it with Stupid Truths and Sublime Realities.

How: During the three weeks, the Unit will collaboratively built the CarpetScape. Every day, each student will insert a new thread.

How: Everyday, each student will wonder the streets of London in search of his/her Urban self. The recorded material will be edited and assemble to support the students’ obsessions.

THE UNIT FINAL PRODUCT

MIN IM OU Land of Stublimeness

During a three-week period, we will collectively work towards a common land of the Now. All your individual work will be inseparable from the rest of the unit and will reach its full potential once placed within the large Land of Stublimeness: Minimou.

Minimou S t u b l i m e Te a m

a.k.a A ntoine Vaxel aire

a .k .a A r i a d n a Ba r t h e

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Brussels, BE, 1986 Antoine first studied architecture in Lausanne before moving to London to join the Architectural Association, where he graduated with Honours in 2013.

During his studies he has worked in several of ces in Zurich, London and Brussels.

After graduating Antoine moved to Tokyo and Mexico City, where he respectively worked two and one years.

Barcelona, ES, 1985 Ariadna first graduated from Interior Design in 2009 (EINA, Barcelona), to then work as an Art Director for advertising, cinema and music videos.

In 2009, Ariadna joined the AA School, where she graduated in 2014.

After that she joined Foster and Partners, where she has worked on a wide range of projects, both in London and Mexico City.

In 2016 Ariadna Barthe and Antoine Vaxelaire founded TOI T, a Creative Consultancy.

TOI T is a Messy and Noisy multidisciplinary practice that aims at re-inserting creativity in all disciplines of our society. Strongly believing that there is an enormous gap between the people with the resources to act and those with the ideas to create, TOI T is the bridge between these distant sides.

Trained as architects, Ariadna and Antoine put architectural knowledge at the core of the office. The understanding of our built environment is the biggest challenge of the decades to come, and architects have a long tradition of both constructing it and understanding its potential.

TOI T believes this knowledge cannot remain in the hands of architects, but should be implemented to all disciplines of today and tomorrow.

As good Europeans, Ariadna and Antoine work and live between Barcelona, London and Bruxelles; where they are implementing their ideas through various projects and teaching in several programs.

AA Summer School 3-21 July 2017

Unit 1 Minimou

Schedule 3-2 1 J u ly

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WEEK 0 1

Mo nda y 3

Tu e s d a y

We d n e s d a y

Th u r s d ay

Unit Guest 1 Weaving Workshop

Unit Guest 2 Editing Workshop

Unit Guest 2 Editing Workshop

Unit Guest 2 Editing Workshop

Unit Guest 2 Editing Workshop

Suggested Visit Broadway Market

Weaving Session and Drinks!

Suggested Show Salder Wells´s

10.00 am

Introduction + Unit Presentations

UNIT KICK-OFF Secret Location

2.00 pm

Unit Selections + 1st Unit Meeting

Unit Space Introduction

MasterClass 1 CARPET

Team Presentation

Tutorials Unit Space

Space Set Up

20.00 pm

Drinks!

Unit Dinner

Weaving Session

Weaving Session

F r i d ay

S at u rd ay

S u n d ay Suggested Visit White Cube Gallery

Suggested Meal Maltby St, Bar Tozino

WEEK 0 2 M onda y 10.00 am

Work Session

Tu e s d a y INTERMEDIATE JURY

We d n e s d a y Post-Jury Discussion

Th u r s d ay MasterClass 2 VIDEO

F r i d ay Tutorials Unit Space

S at u rd ay

S u n d ay

Suggested Visit Speakers’ Corner

Tutorials Unit Space

2.00 pm

20.00 pm

Pre-Jury Rehearsal

INTERMEDIATE JURY

Jury Set Up

Weaving Session and Drinks!

Field Trip

Weaving Session

Work Session

Weaving Session

Summer School BBQ

Suggested Meal St. John 26 St John St

Weaving Session and Drinks!

WEEK 0 3 M onda y

Tu e s d a y

We d n e s d a y

Th u r s d ay

F r i d ay 2 1

10.00 am

Tutorials Unit Space

Work Session

Work Session

Editing Session

FINAL JURY

2.00 pm

Work Session

Work Session

Editing Session

Editing Session

FINAL JURY

Weaving Session

Weaving Session

Weaving Session

Weaving Session

End Party!!

20.00 pm

S at u rd ay

S u n d ay