GUIDED TOUR
09-10.2022
Group project in collaboration with Adriano Salaroli,Clara Hermanns, Amber Vermeulen and
Gokce Çalışkan.
Project realized for MOtelMOzaique Festival, including a guided walking tour with spatial landmarks representing the festival. Design focused on the ephemerality of architecture, one that is designed to exist for a short period and then disappears, providing a fleeting experience and leaving behind a memory.
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The guided tour for Motel Mozaique festival 2022 was inspired by a quality of dérive strategy from the situationist movement. In this sense, the dérive has the goal of bringing people together and helping each other out. As a ‘reward’, one finds the beacons and gets to participate in an experience altogether. Bringing the audience back to the childly mindset of playing around and actively participating in the guided tour is the way to get people excited and eager to learn/discover new things.
LEAFLET
The concept relays on activating vacant spaces of Rotterdam. The idea is to open those courtyards for young artists, as a chance to promote themselves to the public of festival and passersby. There is a great space for cameral concerts, performances, and screenings. Private businesses can open their stands from the back doors, as well as cafes and restaurants. It could help with reaching out to a wider audience, spreading the festival atmosphere all over the city. MOMO audience will have a place to rest and discover new artists, and meet other people.
This guided tour is a way to reintegrate into living again and suggest new ways of observing or reflecting on sometimes redundant aspects of life. Using fun and inclusive way to discover the city, the venues, and acts/performances, will be promoted throughout this experience, and participants will get to create new bonds with other people.
To match the extraordinary character of the MOMO festival, the guided tour we designed has to be a new, memorable experience for participants. Letting people explore the city by themselves, without strict limitations and no guide factor is the essence of the title DETOUR.
Physical and social aspects of life such as exploring the city and getting to know the local people & places offered the possibility to enhance and soften the re-learning of social activities process in the new “post-corona” environments.
To guide themselves, they will have to be aware of their surroundings shutting down the constant flow of consumeristic stimuli shaped by our society, and focus on their senses to recognize the unseen.
Focusing on the dead space of Rotterdam - the forgotten courtyards. Back entrances, parking spaces, trash containers, and a constant feeling of unsafe. By reclaiming the in-between spaces of the city we want to introduce light to those back alleys. Set off to the discovery of Rotterdam backstage.