Andalusi Wasserspiele (english)

ANDALUSI WASSER SPIELE BASURAMA MADRID ALAS BERLIN 06.– 16. JULI 2018

FLOATING UNIVERSITY BER L I N

Wasserspiele schematic sketch of elements

Site plan and games

Andalusi Wasserspiele For eight centuries, Spain was a Muslim country.

During the whole middle ages, most of its culture was completely defined by the Arab heritage. Many features of that time still survive in modern Spain. Among them, the costume of hygiene and constant bathing, together with all water related technologies: irrigation, gardening, reflections, water follies and other ways of managing the scarcity of water proper to oasis and dessert life.

Basurama teams up with ALAS Berlin to study and enjoy that knowledge for creating our own ludic water games and engines for all ages: wheels, cascades, fountains and ponds.

Illustrations by Carlos Alarcรณn Allen, Alberto Nanclares y Nerea Sanz

Folklore Following the arabic tradition that we'd like to bring back to the Floating University, we made a research that we called Folklore.

This study is based on the different materials that traditionally or nowadays have a special relationship with water management and usage, specially in (but not limited to) the Spanish culture.

These materials are the following (some of them with their original spanish name, due to no translation found): -

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- cรกntaros siphon - cantimplora botijo - teapot jofaina - ice molds dropper - jacuzzi shisha bed hot water bottle - iron - mop and bucket porrรณn - plantpot ewer - umbrella cangilones - vase squirt gun

Basurama and ALAS Berlin Basurama is an artist collective based in Madrid, Milan and Bilbao dedicated to research, cultural and environmental creation and production whose practice revolves around the reflection of trash, waste and reuse in all its formats and possible meanings. It has produced more than 120 projects in all 5 continents.

Alas Berlin is an international architecture and design office that approaches design as a civic commitment and develope its ideas accordingly, operating withing the tension between the human, economic, technical and aesthetic aspects in order to generate unique responses to each case.

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He just saved that boat from sinking, 'Hero!'

Watch out the currents are coming

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Our lessons from the experience For two weeks in summer we had the pleasure of working together with the Floating Uni and the people who came to volunteer, learn, collaborate and have fun building and playing with the water games we proposed!

The swimming pool and the water streams had a special success among children, who had a blast changing and altering the course of water and discovering the different behaviors it showed in all the stages of our aquatic playground.

Sparkles

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From May to September 2018 raumlaborberlin created an inner city offshore laboratory for collective, experimental learning. At the rainwater retention pool of the former airport Tempelhof a life-size experiment took place to challenge routines and habits of urban practices – Floating University Berlin.

Student groups from more than twenty international universities together with artists from all over the world, local experts, architects, and dancers came to Berlin. Within critical research seminars, design build courses or mapping classes concerned with the geographic, social and ecological environment they researched practices of urban living, formulate visions and ideas for a better future city and created spaces for communication and commoning.

This booklet documents the research process of University xyz. The group worked on xyz.

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FLOATING UNIVERSITY BER L I N