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Immersive Interspecies Landscapes
AR/VR Games | Online Workshop | English + Spanish | Europe-Mideast-Africa
Description:
Key Words: interspecies,non-humans,design fiction,online VR
Required Skills: mid - knowledge of 3d modeling (in any software - Blender and Sansar will be introduced from scratch)
Required Software: Blender (free / open-source both for windows and mac), Sansar (free, only available for Windows, but can run on some Mac Bootcamp), optional Agisoft Metashape (for photogrammetry 3d scanning - 30 days free trial)
Required Hardware: Hardware that is able to run Sansar (OS 64-bit Win 7 SP1 or newer / DirectX 11 or higher / CPU Intel i5-4590 / AMD FX 8350 equivalent or greater / 8 GB+ RAM / Min 3 GB HDD / Video card NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 or greater) VR Headset not required
Maximum number of participating students: 16
Interspecies Saturated Landscapes is a workshop aimed to collectively reflect on new forms of interspecies coexistence, engaging with natural/artificial spaces, through fiction and storytelling techniques.
Taking inspiration from a selection of design fiction stories from the book exhibition “Interspecies Futures” (curated by Oscar Salguero - https://centerforbookarts.org/interspecies-futures-exhibition ), the participants organized in groups will "virtually" transform a series of selected environments, altering the possibilities of coexistence within them, by modifying, densifying, and "saturating" relevant conditions and elements.
Based on specific non-human species, participants will collect 3d models of habitat components from Creative Commons platforms on the web (and/or optionally also through simplified photogrammetry 3d scanning) and alter them through detailed 3d modeling techniques (using the free software Blender), to later recombine them in micro landscapes in an online virtual reality world (through the free platform/software Sansar).
The final outcome will be a Sansar world to be explored through avatars, together with a curated set of captures and videos. (a world from a similar workshop by Animali Domestici in 2020, featured in the sample videos, can be explored at https://atlas.sansar.com/experiences/animalidomestici/test-build )
The workshop will include content presentations (intro / narratives / worlding and realities construction / online VR), software tutorials and helpdesks, group work tutorial sessions, and final presentation.
The workshop's main language will be English, but all instructors are fluent in Spanish as well, so helpdesks and group tutorials can also be held in Spanish.
The workshop is not going to be livestreamed, please email us if you would like to receive the zoom link to join some sessions without actively participating.
Schedule:
Jun 27 - Jul 3
  • Day 1 / Jun 27

    14:00 - 18:00 (GMT+2:00) Stockholm

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    08:00 - 12:00 (EST)

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    14:00 - 18:00 (CET)

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    20:00 - 00:00 (China)

    Workshop introduction / Presentation of selected Narratives from Interspecies Futures exhibition / Groups organization / Basic introduction to Blender (including online model sourcing) / Optional extra hour basic intro to photogrammetry with Agisoft Metashape
  • Day 2 / Jun 28

    0:00 - 0:00 (GMT+2:00) Stockholm

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    18:00 - 18:00 -1 (EST)

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    00:00 - 00:00 (CET)

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    06:00 - 06:00 (China)

    (Independently) Groups analyze the selected narrative and collect models and components
  • Day 3 / Jun 29

    14:00 - 18:00 (GMT+2:00) Stockholm

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    08:00 - 12:00 (EST)

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    14:00 - 18:00 (CET)

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    20:00 - 00:00 (China)

    Group tutorials on MIRO boards / Software helpdesk / Blender tutorial on shading and texture mapping / Basic introduction to Sansar
  • Day 4 / Jun 30

    0:00 - 0:00 (GMT+2:00) Stockholm

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    18:00 - 18:00 -1 (EST)

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    00:00 - 00:00 (CET)

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    06:00 - 06:00 (China)

    (Independently) Groups start composing the environments and altering properties and atmospheres
  • Day 5 / Jul 1

    14:00 - 18:00 (GMT+2:00) Stockholm

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    08:00 - 12:00 (EST)

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    14:00 - 18:00 (CET)

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    20:00 - 00:00 (China)

    Group tutorials on MIRO boards / Software helpdesk / Collective Sansar world setup
  • Day 6 / Jul 2

    0:00 - 0:00 (GMT+2:00) Stockholm

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    18:00 - 18:00 -1 (EST)

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    00:00 - 00:00 (CET)

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    06:00 - 06:00 (China)

    (Independently) Sansar world upload and coordination
  • Day 7 / Jul 3

    12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+2:00) Stockholm

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    06:30 - 08:00 (EST)

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    12:30 - 14:00 (CET)

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    18:30 - 20:00 (China)

    Final Presentation and Discussion
Instructors:
  • Antonio Bernacchi Aarhus School of Architecture,Assistant Professor (Teaching)
    Antonio Bernacchi and Alicia Lazzaroni are Assistant Professors (Teaching) at Aarhus Architecture School in Aarhus, Denmark. They hold a postgraduate Master in Advanced Architectural Design from ETSAM Polytechnic University of Madrid, subsequent to graduate studies in Italy and Spain. After practicing for several years in Singapore, they became adjunct professors of architectural design and, from 2016 to 2020, year and course coordinator in the International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA - www.cuinda.com) of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. They are constantly engaged in investigating and evolving design pedagogy, in their experimental teaching activities and through dedicated conferences and publications. They are co-founders of Animali Domestici (www.animalidomestici.eu), a design practice based in Aarhus and Bangkok with an active interest in ecology in its wider sense, that has been investigating alternative inclusive assemblages of users and materialities, proposing multi-species explorations with an empirical and hands-on approach. Animali Domestici is focused on the development of speculative design projects, products and processes, at the intersection between ecological and economic systems. Their work has been featured at Beijing Design Week, Milan Triennale, Bangkok Biennial, Seoul Biennale, CCA Singapore, and Oslo Triennale, among others.
  • Alicia Lazzaroni Aarhus School of Architecture,Assistant Professor (Teaching)
    Antonio Bernacchi and Alicia Lazzaroni are Assistant Professors (Teaching) at Aarhus Architecture School in Aarhus, Denmark. They hold a postgraduate Master in Advanced Architectural Design from ETSAM Polytechnic University of Madrid, subsequent to graduate studies in Italy and Spain. After practicing for several years in Singapore, they became adjunct professors of architectural design and, from 2016 to 2020, year and course coordinator in the International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA - www.cuinda.com) of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. They are constantly engaged in investigating and evolving design pedagogy, in their experimental teaching activities and through dedicated conferences and publications. They are co-founders of Animali Domestici (www.animalidomestici.eu), a design practice based in Aarhus and Bangkok with an active interest in ecology in its wider sense, that has been investigating alternative inclusive assemblages of users and materialities, proposing multi-species explorations with an empirical and hands-on approach. Animali Domestici is focused on the development of speculative design projects, products, and processes, at the intersection between ecological and economic systems. Their work has been featured at Beijing Design Week, Milan Triennale, Bangkok Biennial, Seoul Biennale, CCA Singapore, and Oslo Triennale, among others.
  • Oscar Salguero Parsons School of Design,Faculty
    Oscar Salguero is a researcher, critical designer, and independent book curator based in Brooklyn, NY, where he runs The Antilibrary. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently, as part of non:agency’s The Age of Entanglements during Stockholm Design Week, 2020. The Antilibrary identifies unconventional trends and future attitudes through the study of books by independent artists. More than a library, it is an experiment in cultural pattern recognition and cultural alteration. Some topics of interest: Trumpiana, post-fossil matter, olfactive futures, AI-poetry, wetware, etc. From April 16 - June 26, 2021, at the Center for Book Arts, the Antilibrary is presenting 'Interspecies Futures [IF];' the first major survey of bookworks by leading bio-artists and speculative designers on the topic of conceptual interspecies interactions.