The Climate Machine is an optimistic research machine. Not climate change itself but the responses of society are examined and discussed here. What happens when our Western urban model is transformed into a metropolis with global character? More specifically, how does a nicely arranged 1950s' settlement relate to contemporary society where people from all over the world live intermixed, inhabitants with diverse backgrounds, often originally from the countryside and from diverse climate zones? City dwellers know about climate change, but the urban structures and public space know nothing about it yet.
Ton Matton will transform the exterior space of Aedes am Pfefferberg into a temporary garden. Pots with plants, irrigation systems and sunshades will create a unique microclimate, at the same time simulating different climate zones.
The accompanying programme provides opportunities for an active discussion and Interaction with visitors on the following topics:
July 15, 2007
5 pm: the climateMachine and shrinking cities talk with Ton Matton and Matthias Rick, raumlabor_berlin
7 pm: climate ambulation - a think-tour through social Improvisation talk with Ton Matton and Christopher Dell, Institute for Improvisation Technology, Berlin
Accompanying programme: music by Christopher Dell, Ton Matton cooks pizza in the brickearth oven
September 1, 2007
6 pm: Climate change and Global Village talk withTon Matton and mit feld72, architecture and urbane strategies, vienna accompanying programme: Ton Matton cooks pancakes with eggs out of the „chicken cabinet“
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Ton Matton was part of the Dutch designer movement of the 1990s, working for the 'amnesty for built reality' and dealing in depth and experimentally with the challenges of urban planning and spatial organization. Ton Matton's sphere of work spans object design, social design, ecological urban planning and the artistic desire for action. In 2001, together with his wife, writer Ellie Smolenaars, he opened the workshop Wendorf in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany with the objective of trying to retrieve/investigate with changing visitors/guests the small Utopias and disturbances of everyday life. mattonoffice appreciates nature as object for conveying aesthetically situations of crisis within a society. The constellations in cooperative projects by mattonoffice vary constantly, but repeatedly with NL Architects, One Architecture (Amsterdam), Atelier van Lieshout, MVRDV, Crimson, Rem Koolhaas /OMA (Rotterdam), feld72 (Vienna) und dem Think Tank Alterra and the Wageningen university among others. Ton Matton participated, amongst others, in Archilab (Orléans/France), the Biennale Sao Paulo, the European Biennale manifesta 2 (Ljubljana) as well as the first and second Architectural Biennale Rotterdam. His projects were displayed at the furniture fair Milan, at Reality Machines Berlin, in the gallery De Appel Amsterdam or at the travelling exhibition Nine+One of NAi Rotterdam. At present, mattonoffice is acting as a consultant to Dutch Ministry for Development Planning on artistic visions of the future in Xtreme Make-Over NL, on the future of landscape and urban space in the Netherlands of the year 2040.
Diese Ausstellung wurde ermöglicht mit der großzügigen Unterstützung von:
