RISD at Beyond Media 2009 in Venice
July 9, 2009 | Levent OZLER
Beginning this week, the RISD Architecture department will be featured in the Beyond Media international festival, an event dedicated to the most current visions on contemporary architecture. The exhibition takes place at The Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy, through 17 July.
The 2009 edition of the Beyond Media festival includes two exhibitions: Spot On Schools, an exploration, on an international basis, of state-of-the-art and cutting edge researches on the influence of the new media on the discipline of architecture; and Urban Visions, an exhibition dedicated to projects of urban transformation.
The third edition of the Spot On Schools exhibition, curated by Paola Giaconia, involves some 20 architecture and design schools which distinguish themselves for their research and experimentation in the field of new media communication. The invited schools will tell, through the experience of the students and of the instructors, how the new technologies influence the various phases of a design, starting from the very act of creative conception. The exhibition highlights energetic lines of research that fuel architectural education with new life. Some of the most innovative and prestigious architecture programs in the world have been invited to showcase work that investigates recent developments of the use of digital technologies for design research.
RISD's installation tells the illuminating story of the relationship between the thought process and artifact in the RISD Architecture program. The department will exhibit works from studios that engage socio-cultural issues in architecture, presented via several hundred pre-addressed and pre-stamped bi-fold postcards, each marked with a unique QR/datamatrix pattern. The code can be photographed with cell phones equipped with readers, allowing the user to retrieve additional information and data-links for an individual project via the web. The postcards also have a front fold "takeaway" featuring an image of an individual project, a short description of the work and the contact information for the respective student. The back fold invites individuals who attend the show to send comments back to the students at RISD, closing the loop on communication with a contrasting, less-tech method. The postcards will then be exhibited at RISD in the fall of 2009.
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