“Portable Public Space”: Embodied Responses to the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis as ELISAVA’s proposal integrated within Navire Avenir
In the words of project leader Roger Paez, and starting from a common statement, we intended to start the project with avoiding an all-too common superficial, distanced empathy with refugees by putting our own bodies on the line.
In the words of project leader Roger Paez, and starting from a common statement, we intended to start the project with avoiding an all-too common superficial, distanced empathy with refugees by putting our own bodies on the line.
In this sense, Elisava team proposed an honest acceptance of the privileged position in which we develop, while we don’t consider it right for us to put ourselves in the position of migrants and their journeys, we explored new forms of the politics of care through design by experimenting with our own bodies.
Vulnerability and affectivity articulate a wearable design perspective that explores portable public space in this context. The concept appears as we ask how to negotiate the harsh conditions on board a rescue ship, a space-time in which people live together without a shared cultural, social or spatial code.
“Navire Avenir (NA) in Marsella”
Promoted by Sébastien Thiéry (Pôle d’Exploration des Ressources Urbaines, PEROU), MEATS students Amber Zhang and Tiffany Whittaker attend the Marsella sesión of the presentation of the first draft of the rescue ship “Navire Avenir”, sharing the experiences and culminating the three phased project in which we explored a series of affective transactions with the socio-political crisis activated by a first-person perspective and dynamic experimentation with the body, through workshops and a series of instances leaded by Saul Baeza, Roger Paez and Manuela Valtchanova.
Promoted by Sébastien Thiéry (Pôle d’Exploration des Ressources Urbaines, PEROU), MEATS students Amber Zhang and Tiffany Whittaker attend the Marsella sesión of the presentation of the first draft of the rescue ship “Navire Avenir”, sharing the experiences and culminating the three phased project in which we explored a series of affective transactions with the socio-political crisis activated by a first-person perspective and dynamic experimentation with the body, through workshops and a series of instances leaded by Saul Baeza, Roger Paez and Manuela Valtchanova.
One of the main objectives of this action-based research project is to propose new approaches to the European refugee crisis through intimate design practices of care.
Project developed by MEATS (Máster Ephemeral Architecture and Temporary Spaces), Elisava Research and Elisava Communication Master.
