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2014 CV / design project „Terrain-postin- PERSON dustrial landscapes-brown coal NAME LUCIE WASCHKE mining Welzow-Süd“ Lausitz with NATIONALITY GERMAN Prof. N. Palz / film project „Die ADRESS DUNCKERSTR. Ausfährtigen“ with A. Ranner 15 2013 10437 BERLIN / public lecture “We have the MAIL maillucie@web.de right to stay here!” University of FON ++49 151 23 98 28 37 Arts Berlin / performance artist assistance for Pablo Wendel and its research group Performance Electrics at UdK Berlin / city research project „Stadtdenker Paderborn“ with T. Fröbe / project Prof. A. Ranner / voluntary alpine farmers support South Tyrol / design project „Terrain-postindustrial landscapes-brown coal mining Welzow-Süd“ Lausitz with Prof. N. Palz / educational trip United States of America, road trip Huston > Los Angeles 2012 / design project „extensional building tract for Wilhelm-vonpublication Humboldt-School“ Berlin with Prof. 2014 F. Riegler / „Gefundenes Fressen“ / book: Stadtdenker: Ein Spielraum donation dinner at Winterfeldplatz fur urbane Entdeckungen, Jovis Berlin / project „Hiddenborough“ Berlin (march 2014) with Prof. A. Ranner / Urban 2013 Transcripts prize winner „London, / public lecture: “We have the the (n)ever-changing city“ + groupright to stay here!” , january 2013, exhibition London / group exhibiti- University of Arts Berlin on „Insider out - out of the dwelling / magazine: Stadtaspekte - The - go in the city!“ of research group third side of city, Issue # 2 - grey AUA with photographies „24h areas, „Hidden Borough - I make Marzahn“ / educational trip squat- use of that what you do not see „ ting in London / voluntary alpine / magazine: PROTOCOL # 5 - New farmers support South Tyrol land, „Hidden Borough - the hidden 2011 borough - a manifesto“ / design project „abstract city“ / local press: Neue Westfälische with Prof. B. Götz / project - Kreuzberg located in Paderborn „conserve“ with Prof. A. Ranner / - Stadtdenker offer a fresh view educational trip Moscow / volun- to hometown / „Getting caught on tary alpine farmers support South non-places“, by Frederike Grabbe Tyrol 2010 exhibition / design project „house at the slo- 2010 pe“ with Prof. F. Riegler / design / group exhibition „What you project „compost house“ in London want“, room installation at statuwith Prof. F. Riegler / design pro- ary workplaces at Kulturwerk of ject with Prof. A. Grazioli bbk Berlin GmbH / project „double model“ , „room 2012 boundary“ with Prof. A. Ranner / group exhibition „London, the 2009 (n)ever-changing city“ `Hidden / beginning architectural studies Borough`, ICN Gallery, London at University of Arts Berlin / de- / group exhibition „Insider out - out sign project „known room“ - Ernst of the dwelling - go in the city!“ of Thälmann Park Berlin with Prof. F. research group AUA with photoRiegler graphies „24h Marzahn“ , Berlin2008 Marzahn / A levels at Albert-SchweitzerGymnasium / renovation internshipmore (nov. 08 - sep.09) at WERKartfacebook.com/HiddenBorough Restaurierung & Restaurierung Andreas Schulz guerillaarchitects.wordpress.com 2006 / teaching felt-making at Albert- stadtdenker.tumblr.com/ Schweitzer-Gymnasium Eisenhüttenstadt / Youth facilitation price Narbenloop for photography vimeo.com/192257339 1988 birth in Eisenhüttenstadt once Die Ausfährtigen Stalinstadt vimeo.com/101080962

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0) Abstract Machines - rake, gouge, plow, dig - jiggle, seed, feed, reap - seal, shake, squeeze - flood. Man-made artificially created sceneries come up consequently. Postindustrial landscapes follow. Wilderness is cultivated and turned into industrial areas. Leftover sites and non-places with scenic landscape gardens. Landscape scars remain on the ground. 1) Research objective Located in the center of the brown coal mining area Welzow-Süd in the east of Germany the „Institut für Angewandte Landschaftsarchäologie“ (Institute for applied Landscape Archeology) is being found. The institute aims to update the current concept of landscape. It deals with fleeting areas, man-made short-lived geographies. Artificial areas are to be verified for „Landschaftlichkeit“ (landscapeability) to be able to become „Landscape“. The new landscapes will be charted and archived in an abstract way so that its future can be simulated over a long period. The aim is to consider landscape not as a final state but rather as a web of nonlinear processes, that is characterised by permanent alterations and a wealth of possible spectacles. The institute is made of several tracts, which will be erected among the coal district Welzow-Süd over a long period. During the multiannual construction process of the institute the spoil dumping of the mine is being continued by the energy provider „Vattenfall“. The geography around the institute is subjected to a permanent transformation until at least 2044. Spatially the institute is based upon a modular construction system derived from the US-military. It was used in great number for intercontinental missiles type TITAN-II until 1963. 2) Concept of Landscape Landscape does not only consist of geological, morphological and physical features like material, shape, structure, color, etc. These actual facts alone are not making landscape an aesthetic phenomenon. All aesthetic factors making geography „landscape“ are not engraved as informations in the landscape‘s material. They are non-matter as they depend on individual experimental perceptivity like smell, acoustic, haptic, emotion and temporary factors like culture, society, economy, politics, history etc. 3) Procedure A_“Landscape Sigil“ The „Institute of applied Landscape Archeology“ discusses the necessity to save scenic genomes - called „Soil Good“. Samples of man-made wastelands arrive at the institute and have the chance to become a „landscape“. Subsequently a council of landscape reviewer is adjudging these samples. They are testing them for „Landschaftlichkeit“ (landscapeability). Finally, they may award the „Landscape Sigil“. B_ Coding/ Storage The „Landscape Gouging Machine“ receives abstract landscape codes including the material informations of a certain landscape. The machine mills the code inside the „Topographic Storage Shaft“. The non-material informations are saved in longish „Memory Capsules“ and placed in the shaft within a fixed grid. C_Model An artificially generated model of a certain landscape is able to be produced in different scales from this landscape code. Environmental or man-made alterations can be simulated with that model in different test sides. It is possible to fastforward or reverse long-term processes.

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I) Portal The concierge receives the „Application for Landschaftlichkeit“ together with geological samples. It is also the place where the landscape reviewers and the researchers arrive. They are picked up by the service staff and inducted into the institutes circumstances. II) Base Station This is a place to come together, eat, sleep and communicate. Everybody is adequately supplied here. III) Soil Good Encyclopaedia The „Soil Good Encyclopaedia“ is the largest tract. It is a compilation of geological and aesthetic contents constituting earth. It makes use of former methods and medias that deal with the awarenesses and depiction of the earth´s surface. The landscape reviewers meet at „Dissecting and Plenar Hall“ to discuss about the „Landschaftlichkeit“ of a send in area. Finally, they might award the „Landscape Sigil“.

IV) Landscape Gouging Machine The landscape gouging machine is situated in an increasing number of several slim concrete cylinders that are growing slowly. On the top of each cylinder there is a cylindrical machinery. This instrument is equipped with a read-write head that is able to slide up and down to storage topographic informations by plotting clay layers at the cylinder‘s inner surface. A new „Landscape“ is formed on the top of an already plotted one. It can be experienced physically yet is it still abstract. When a next „Landscape“ is about to be stored, the formwork of the cylinder slips upwards. Thus the building grows taller and taller. The plotted „Landscapes“ are hardened, visible, experienceable and again downloadable.

V) Test Sites At the „Test Sites“ long-term alterations can be simulated on an artificial landscape model. The large round hangar is unsupported and appears clinically tidy. The ceiling consists of a rotatable scaffold made of steel beams, which is holding a dense tangle of apparatuses. They are able to plot every sediment in different scale. Deserts, mountains, coasts and even wooded hillsides can be reproduced abstractly. In the next step it is possible to alter the model landscape with artificial weather, seasons and human-made influences. In this tract artificial and natural spectacles are prepared. The next high tide of the century, avalanches, slumpings, sandstorms and thunderstorms need to be calculated meticulously. The time can be reaped and stretched to simulate slow motion or fast-forward. The Test Sites are isolated from all environmental influences of Welzow-Süd because the tests with the landscape models can occupy much time. Nearby is a depot of construction machines, a sediment grinder and a sorting machine. They recycle the used base materials. Additionally a row of silos store all materials of the periodic system to form detailed landscape models.

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„The Criminal Law Act 1977 covers occupation of property at section 6. It defines „violence for securing entry“ as an offence, if „(a) there is someone present on those premises at the time who is opposed to the entry which the violence is intended to secure; and (b) the person using or threatening the violence knows that that is the case.“

Hidden Borough is a city borough, a district, a neighborhood, an arrondissement, a bezirk, in essence whatever such an entity might be labeled in its respective city. What differentiates us from the others is that we supersede any specific geographic classification and/or connotation. We are the friction from which the city as we know it emerged, the laughter and the tears, the joy and the anger, the decency and the depravity. We are the catalyst inducing the moment between the physical and the mental world, the gate to a subconscious state of human affairs often ignored or relegated to the background. We are the moment that gate opens. We remain seamlessly nestled into the existing fabric of the city – its undeniable creator – and while not easily located on a map, we are nevertheless easily accessible and open to any and all. Hidden Borough is the perceivable connection between the real and the thought, the rational and the irrational. We abide between the existing, among the relics of the real, reversing the orientation and directionality of everyday life by creating an interface between the tangible and the intangible. We endure wherever our citizens decide to act, and are visible through their presence, brought to life through their motives and ideas. We are an autonomous entity within an existing framework, one in the same with the surroundings and yet independent, in symbiosis with all around us.

LEGAL WARNING Section 6 Criminal Law Act 1977 As amended by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994

TAKE NOTICE THAT we live in this property, it is our home and we intend to stay here. THAT at all times there is at least one person in this property. THAT any entry or attempt to enter into this property without our permission is a criminal offence as any one of us who is in physical possession is opposed to entry without our permission. THAT if you attempt to enter by violence or by threatening violence we will prosecute you. You may receive a sentence of up to six months imprisonment and/or a fine of up to ÂŁ5,000. THAT if you want to get us out you will have to issue a claim in the County Court or in the High Court, or produce to us a written statement or certificate in terms of S.12A Criminal Law Act, 1977 (as inserted by Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, 1994). THAT it is an offence under S.12A (8) Criminal Law Act 1977 (as amended) to knowingly make a false statement to obtain a written statement for the purposes of S. 12A. A person guilty of such an offence may receive a sentence of up to six months imprisonment and/or a fine of up to ÂŁ5,000. Signed

The Occupiers N.B. Signing this Legal warning is optional. It is equally valid whether or not it is signed.

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DIE AUSFÄHRTIGEN Short Film 10:47 2013 / 2014 Film project after roadtrip USA Prof. Alexandra Ranner Chair for Spatial+ Plastic Depiction

COLLAPS Drawing 2013 with Caroline Häfele Prof Norbert Palz Chair for Digital + Experimental Design

PLATINCITY Drawing 2013 Urban Planing Project Prof. Fuhrimann & Hächler Chair for Design and Urban Planing

Resettlement - They are on the move - for quite some time. They Platine - they are subfloors on breed. They redeploy. They move on in covered wagons like ever which electronic components are clamped. They are part of every since. Horses are petered out in wild vastness. They only gallop on electronic device. Platines (boards) of different layers. Some the radiator grill. Not in a long time they live in a tipi. The fire smoul- consist are flat and plastic. The flat ones are base plate, conducting tracks ders otherwhere. The tents are folded up - Get up ! Get up ! and solder resists. The base plate is composed of an isolating electric Void - Archaic void spreads. It shouts itself pasty. With it vanish base material. Overlying follows a millions of years - evolved seniors. Dummies teeters across spraw- cooper layer-the conducting track, which transfers electronic inforling properties and stumbled over combed grass. Roaring wasteland mations. On the same layer lies the solder resist, which takes protecoutruns the scenery. Come on! Come on! tive functions. Solder point and conducting tracks fix the electronic Destruction - raw and tender, it dies of thirst to become tanned dust. components on the base plate. They build the plastic layer. According Habitability of this draped earth stretches. They escape from the to functions, shape and material a is made between tranbones of a naked soil body. And they ride away, extinct and died down. distinction sistor, terminal, inductor, resistor and condenser. They are interconEven the last escapes away. nected by conducting tracks. When looking at the Platine‘s layers Refuge - Die Ausfährtigen. They go too far. A lighted up rooming as a whole as well as in single layers, there are similarities to be house rescues all Ausfährtige. It´s the wildness, that frightens seen to urban structures. In the top view of a city different functional them. In the womb a warm drink. So they feel secure. They are fed layers and layers of various uses and themselves they bait. Sitting on ringing machines they are cont- are overlapping each other. They interact and interconnect as well. rolling an external danger. They escape from a minaciously growing As for example, the conducting tracks of a city could be the traffic wasteland and cluster here. These are comfortable caves in which system of streets, public translines, individual citizens they are living. Minimally furnished but tidy. The employees are polite portation paths ect. These ways bring people, informations to on place to and helpful. And make them feel like they are the only gambler on the goods, an other and are the connecting table. Tomato, onion, cheese, grilled chicken breast. Here they can chains between places. The treatment of Platines and its analogy to cities depends on scale. create their own burger. If you want it even comes with fries. And they just pay 6,99$. All of them tend to be still lifes. Bodies lacking gestures are praying and baiting the flickering appliances. Apocalypse - They know, when the space will be homogenized and the soil will be dematerialized. Willfully, they uphold the destruction and tame estranged the survivors. Deep pressed into the armchair, they fasten the joystick. The eyes red, the bladder full. The angle‘s machine beats evermore harder. In quiet calmness, they keep on embracing their joysticks. And yet, they are the ones, who deform the external.

The symbols we used, were meant WHH GT 85 HIDDENBOROUGH to suggest the possibility of acces-Drawing Analys Urban occupance sing and the right to take part in 2009 2012 groupwork a collectively shared and available Prof. Florian Riegler Prof. A. Ranner space in order to redefine Chair for Spatial+ Plastic Depictionurban and redirect the development of theChair for Design and city. They encourage taking advan- Structural Design The boundaries of public [or urban]tage of this right. space are not natural, but negotiable. Hidden Borough exists in reality - and is at the same time a purely theoretical construct. This new KONSERVE urban district has no fixed borders, Models rather acting like a synaptic net. SCHOOL 2011 It is not closed, but open to all and 2012 with Jenna Klupsch Prof. Alexandra Ranner expandable. The Hidden Borough Building Design Project Chair for Spatial+ Plastic Depiction is a system within the system – in Prof. Florian Riegler symbiosis with the city itself. Chair for Design and Foods - homogenized, parallelized, They tap into the unused potential –Structural Design controlled in its hygiene. And stanThe free resources – dardized in its fabrication - deep The excess and overproduction of A new building as an extension of shrink-wrapped in its distribution. urban society, Its Lost spaces, abandoned houses,the Wilhelm-von-Humboldt Schule Plenty and mass consumption in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. Learningdisperse the aestethic overvalue. wasted food. across classes as a new learning What is leftover, is the modular hySummer 2012 we came from Berlinand teaching concept of the full- gienic conserve. Product: bread as time school causes flexible and freebasic foods archival conserved . An to London. Our plan was to find Hidden Borough, live in it and make ground plans. They should allow a exhibit variation of base materials. it visible to others. Here in London,lively school life in combination with one of the most expensive cities in public uses. the world, there are 72.000 empty The building is directly situated at houses, often due to land specula- the long side of the sports field. So its building back snuggles with the tion. neighboring firewall. The building London is one of the few cities, in which it is legal to squat emp- tract is structured in 3 areas. There are learning rooms, specific ty buildings. We wanted to take advantage of this legal loophole in rooms like labs for natural scienorder to reinterpret the situation ces, studios with darkroom etc. The and structure of the city itself. We space between the Learning heads offers opportunities for public uses squatted a house! and works independently. There is While in Berlin, we used google streetview to locate empty buil- for example a café and a copy shop dings in London, then created a in the middle of the first floor, and map we could then use upon arrivalin the second floor a library. The to quickly find a place to stay. In open ground floor, the sports field the end, we had an archive of emptythat is open for the public and the buildings, which served as the basisopen first floors causes a mixing relationship between neighborhood for our further projects. Our aim was to activate the un- or and everyday school life. underused potential of these buildings. A Victorian-era warehouse that has been empty for more than 25 years, without running water or power. We tested our own utopia by adapting the available space and 24-HOURS MARZAHN free resources to our needs. On the one hand symbolic and otherwi- Urban Testing se real. Therein lies the core of our 2011 project: the urban space belongs to Prof. Alexandra Ranner everyone and can be reinterpreted Chair for Spatial+ Plastic Depiction as they see fit. The importance of the threshold Exposed. between our residence and the city A former socialistic housing estate changed from day to day. Our adap- in in the borough of Marzahn in tation of the old warehouse for our needs begins to expand outward Berlin. 24 hours at a certain place. into the city. We’re coloring the entire city blue. Around the clock: animal love. The color blue was part of the cor- Elo and Chihuahua wallowing in porate identity we developed and masters devotion. helped camouflage us as an official There are Gudrun and Gert who institution. The presence of such an admit me in their love empire: institution was not questioned by DOGS. city residents but accepted as part of the system. Our actions - in this context - became ambivalent and ambiguous.