POSTPONED! Sensitive Excursion through Haven-Stad

Arcam will be rescheduling the excursion to a later date this spring.

Explore the sensory qualities of urban spaces in Amsterdam together with Arcam’s first Architect in Residence of 2024, Jacopo Grilli.

~~On Friday 19 April~~, join Jacopo on a cycling and moving tour and explore the idea of water and emptiness as the centre of Haven-Stad. The tour will be in English and guided by Jacopo Grilli (urbanist and artist) and Rebecca Wijnruit (dancer and choreographer).

For whom?

The excursion is focused on architecture professionals, thinkers and creators of the city, but open to students, citizens and passionate urban explorers.

If we want to design and experience better cities we should observe and stimulate the sensations that certain spaces retain in their physical and emotional perception.

Jacopo Grilli

Put senses in motion

Inspired by the goal of Amsterdam becoming a polynuclear city, Jacopo Grilli together with other artists, will be identifying urban centres in two excursions. During these excursions the senses are put in motion to recognize the centres that the city is designing and phenomenologically generating. Visitors will map the city through combinations of visual, tactile, thermal, auditory, and performative arts.

How do senses alter or improve the experience of the city? How can mapping of sensations improve the design discipline? In polynuclear Amsterdam what is the difference between designed and phenomenologically generated centres?

Emptiness as a centre

By Rebecca Wijnruit & Jacopo Grilli

“The sense of balance and movement will be our tools to investigate the emptiness of the water as the centre of the harbour, soon to become another piece of the city. With the support of a professional dancer we will learn how to move in space by exploring it and following a simple, yet emotionally oriented choreography. Meditation, balance and movement will raise the awareness between human and urban dimensions.”

The goal of the excursion

New design tools

The goal of the excursion is to bridge and mediate between the traditional and current design tools with a new perspective that senses, phenomena reading and interpretation can provide. The registration of feelings generated by urban spaces and situations can provide new design tools for the creators of the city.
The final result of the research and excursions will be an exhibited reportage of those experiences that will provide the city with a compendium of atmospheres that the city can generate.

Practical information

Sensitive cycling excursion Haven-Stad
Date: TO BE ANNOUNCED
Time: 14.00 – 16.30 hr
Starting location: End of Silodam (next to Silodam 402, 1013 AW Amsterdam)
End Location: NDSM
Bring your own bike
Dress code: See colour palette below. You are kindly asked to dress according to the palette.
Tickets: €10
Please note that the excursion will be filmed as part of the Sensitive City research reportage. (The body movement will be filmed, not your face) If you prefer not to be filmed during the excursion, please send an email to isanne@arcam.nl

Colour palette excursion

Jacopo Grilli Rebecca Wijnruit

Jacopo Grilli

Architect in Residence

Jacopo Grilli (Milan 1991) is an urbanist and multidisciplinary artist who works and lives in Amsterdam. The focus of his work is reflecting on contemporary and spatial issues within the city, expressed through a unique visual language that aims to stimulate the imagination for urban transformations. By approaching time and space with intuition and disenchantment, he proposes himself to mediate design processes among city makers, offering contemplation of a broader range of alternative solutions and possibilities for the city and society. Since 2021, after working as a designer for several offices, he works as an artist in residence and urban designer for his practice: Art of Cities. The results of the residencies have been included in several exhibitions and urban development processes as a consultant and independent artist/researcher. He participated in the International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam in 2022 and was nominated for Archiprix 2021 with his graduation project. Jacopo currently works as an independent urban designer and artist/performer and as a tutor/collaborator at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam

Rebecca Wijnruit

Collaborator

Rebecca Wijnruit (Amsterdam 1994) is a dancer and choreographer. What intrigues Rebecca is to find new movement qualities and/or perspectives through the work of physical embodiment. It fascinates Rebecca to pursue this research throughout her career with diverse working spaces, people and fellow dancers, makers and choreographers. She aims to expand these findings within the body. As an artist, Rebecca believes in synergy and the inherent power of connection and communication through movement and dance. Thus, she shares a sense of vulnerability towards the audience and herself.

Contact

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