Artist:
Unlimited Stealth
Title:
Moravia Nodos de Desarrollo Cultural
Year:
2009
Adress:
Medellin
Website:
www.stealth.ultd.net:
In 2004, under the guidance of mayor Sergio Fajardo, the Municipality of Medellàn began an integrated strategic plan to recover the neighbourhood of Moravia, that by then reached an extreme population density, with 42,000 inhabitants, 15,000 living on top of the de-activated garbage dump 'El Morro'. Moravia grew as an illegal settlement since the 1960s. The municipal garbage dump, established here in 1977 and closed in 1984, became a source of neighbourhood's survival, based on recuperation of any recyclable materials. Due to national social conflicts of the early 1980s, people from rural areas who were pushed to the city, appropriated the garbage hill and its surrounding and built their life there, in perplexingly tough conditions and with a desperate lack of public space and facilities. Through the expansion of the city in the last decades Moravia finds itself right in the midst of it.
A significant sign of the neighbourhood's rebirth made through this plan is the initiation o the Centro de Desarrollo Cultural de Moravia / Cultural Development Center of Moravia (CDCM), whose aim is to promote culture, education and the arts, and which was built on request of the community. The centre opened in 2008, on a plot of land set free by the inhabitants of Moravia, and designed by a renown Colombian architects, Rogelio Salmona. In the first three years the CDCM has served nearly 500.000 inhabitants.
www.instituteforpublicart.org:
This project was conceived to reinforce the goals of the CDC moravia, but it is in fact an artistic initiative, not an institutional one. Moravia neighborhood has existed for almost 50 years over a garbage dump. In 2010 some of its inhabitants were relocated to another part of town, breaking the unity of the neighborhood and creating a lot of resistence. This project looks to contribute to the reinforcerment of identity and the power of culture to transform human beings.
Source: Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.
www.stealth.ultd.net:
design process
The intense use of the centre and the important role that it got in the life of the neighbourhood brought the necessity to extend it. Instead of waiting for the location and finances for a 'proper' building to come together, we made the decision to adopt a more flexible approach by using cheaper means and starting with a temporary space. Considering that the 'El Morro' garbage dump is on the verge of being fenced off and environmentally sanitised for the next 25 years '' a process that will have a large impact on the community, its economy and its future '' the location of the intervention has been positioned right at the edge of the dump. Moravia is a quarter based on recycling economy, naturally these, locally available reclaimed materials, have been adopted for the project. This inverts the design process, starting from the found materials that vary from day to day (like packaging leftovers from local industry, plastic crates and containers, metal parts, etc.).
Principles for the searf possible materials for the realisation of the structure and the internal furnishings were set in a three-weeks workshop during August 2010. The team proceeded to design three spatial units: a reading space for children, an arts and crafts workshop and a multi-functional terrace for events (like the neighbourhood kitchen of Cocineros de Moravia, cooking on Saturdays for over 150 children). A (steel) structure has been built that accommodates the recycled elements, including glass fridge doors or parts of a discarded bus (seats and windows). The body of the bus was used to build a public terrace. All was realised during the first months of 2011, employing craftsmen from the neighbourhood in the furnishing of the spaces. The project was inaugurated on April 15, 2011. With its no-nonsense design, flexibility of use and its strong aesthetics, the Cultural Development Node No.1 - El Morro is the first space of its kind in the neighbourhood and in Medellàn.
www.elpuentelab.org:
Espacios de memoria Moavia
Proyecto realizado en cooperación entre el Centro de Desarrollo Cultural Moravia (CDCM), la Secretaràa de Cultura Ciudadana de Medellàn, Comfenalco Antioquia, El puente_lab y Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, el cual convocó a los artistas Katia Meneghini, Gayle Chong Kwan, Armin Mobasseri y Vàctor Muà±oz a realizar intervenciones en el espacio público del barrio Moravia. Las intervenciones sirvieron para generar diálogos y potenciar nuevas dinámicas de encuentro entre los habitantes y los artistas, asà como también para abrir una reflexión macro del proceso de transformación urbana y social, y su importancia para cada una de las familias.
Proyecto Nodos de desarrollo cultural
En el aà±o 2009 El puente_lab fue invitado a diseà±ar un nuevo espacio alterno, móvil e independiente del Centro de Desarrollo Cultural Moravia (CDCM), denominado Nodos de desarrollo cultural. El diseà±o se desarrolló basado en estructuras tipo contenedor y un bus en desuso, concebido como un puente earquitectura, y se propone como un acto artàstico colectivo para acompaà±ar el proceso de transformación urbana del barrio, a través de la creación de nuevos espacios dispuestos para toda la comunidad.
Translation:
Memory spaces Moravia
To generate dialogues and to develop new dynamic encounter between the inhabitants and the artists, as well as to open a reflection macro of the process of urban and social transformation, and its importance to each of the families, interventions were made in the public space of the neighborhood Moravia. Project performed in cooperation between the Center of Cultural Development Moravia (CDCM), the Secretariat of Citizen Culture of Medellàn, Comfenalco Antioquia, The puente_lab and Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, which brought the artists Katia Meneghini, Gayle Chong Kwan, Armin Mobasseri and Victor Muà±oz to make interventions in the public space of the neighborhood Moravia.
Project Nodes of cultural development
In the year 2009, puente_lab wasd to design a new space, alternate, mobile and independent of the Center of Cultural Development Moravia (CDCM), known as Nodes of cultural development. The design was developed based on structures containing type, and a bus into disuse, conceived as a bridge between art and architecture, and is proposed as an art collective to accompany the process of urban transformation in the neighborhood, through the creation of new spaces ready for the entire community.
www.elpuentelab.org:
El puente_lab es una plataforma de producción artàstica y cultural activa en Medellàn - Colombia, cuyo objetivo es desarrollar proyectos culturales en el ámbito local, creando puentes de comunicación con artistas y expertos a través una infraestructura operativa de cooperación internacional.
Los proyectos que desarrolla el puente_lab responden a necesidades especificas del contexto social donde se realizan, utilizando la creatividad artàstica como instrumento de activación de dinámicas culturales que inicieen y/o acompaà±en procesos de educación, comunicación y transformación urbana y social.
Translation:
The puente_lab is a platform for artistic and cultural production active in Medellin - Colombia, whose objective is to develop cultural projects at the local level, creating bridges of communication with artists and experts through an operational infrastructure of international cooperation.
The projects developed by the puente_lab respond to the specific needs of the social context in which they are performed, using the artistic creativity as a tool for activation of cultural dynamics that initiate, facilitate, and/or accompanying processes of education, communication and urban and social transformation.
In 2004, under the guidance of mayor Sergio Fajardo, the Municipality of Medellàn began an integrated strategic plan to recover the neighbourhood of Moravia, that by then reached an extreme population density, with 42,000 inhabitants, 15,000 living on top of the de-activated garbage dump 'El Morro'. Moravia grew as an illegal settlement since the 1960s. The municipal garbage dump, established here in 1977 and closed in 1984, became a source of neighbourhood's survival, based on recuperation of any recyclable materials. Due to national social conflicts of the early 1980s, people from rural areas who were pushed to the city, appropriated the garbage hill and its surrounding and built their life there, in perplexingly tough conditions and with a desperate lack of public space and facilities. Through the expansion of the city in the last decades Moravia finds itself right in the midst of it.
A significant sign of the neighbourhood's rebirth made through this plan is the initiation o the Centro de Desarrollo Cultural de Moravia / Cultural Development Center of Moravia (CDCM), whose aim is to promote culture, education and the arts, and which was built on request of the community. The centre opened in 2008, on a plot of land set free by the inhabitants of Moravia, and designed by a renown Colombian architects, Rogelio Salmona. In the first three years the CDCM has served nearly 500.000 inhabitants.
www.instituteforpublicart.org:
This project was conceived to reinforce the goals of the CDC moravia, but it is in fact an artistic initiative, not an institutional one. Moravia neighborhood has existed for almost 50 years over a garbage dump. In 2010 some of its inhabitants were relocated to another part of town, breaking the unity of the neighborhood and creating a lot of resistence. This project looks to contribute to the reinforcerment of identity and the power of culture to transform human beings.
Source: Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.
www.stealth.ultd.net:
design process
The intense use of the centre and the important role that it got in the life of the neighbourhood brought the necessity to extend it. Instead of waiting for the location and finances for a 'proper' building to come together, we made the decision to adopt a more flexible approach by using cheaper means and starting with a temporary space. Considering that the 'El Morro' garbage dump is on the verge of being fenced off and environmentally sanitised for the next 25 years '' a process that will have a large impact on the community, its economy and its future '' the location of the intervention has been positioned right at the edge of the dump. Moravia is a quarter based on recycling economy, naturally these, locally available reclaimed materials, have been adopted for the project. This inverts the design process, starting from the found materials that vary from day to day (like packaging leftovers from local industry, plastic crates and containers, metal parts, etc.).
Principles for the searf possible materials for the realisation of the structure and the internal furnishings were set in a three-weeks workshop during August 2010. The team proceeded to design three spatial units: a reading space for children, an arts and crafts workshop and a multi-functional terrace for events (like the neighbourhood kitchen of Cocineros de Moravia, cooking on Saturdays for over 150 children). A (steel) structure has been built that accommodates the recycled elements, including glass fridge doors or parts of a discarded bus (seats and windows). The body of the bus was used to build a public terrace. All was realised during the first months of 2011, employing craftsmen from the neighbourhood in the furnishing of the spaces. The project was inaugurated on April 15, 2011. With its no-nonsense design, flexibility of use and its strong aesthetics, the Cultural Development Node No.1 - El Morro is the first space of its kind in the neighbourhood and in Medellàn.
www.elpuentelab.org:
Espacios de memoria Moavia
Proyecto realizado en cooperación entre el Centro de Desarrollo Cultural Moravia (CDCM), la Secretaràa de Cultura Ciudadana de Medellàn, Comfenalco Antioquia, El puente_lab y Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, el cual convocó a los artistas Katia Meneghini, Gayle Chong Kwan, Armin Mobasseri y Vàctor Muà±oz a realizar intervenciones en el espacio público del barrio Moravia. Las intervenciones sirvieron para generar diálogos y potenciar nuevas dinámicas de encuentro entre los habitantes y los artistas, asà como también para abrir una reflexión macro del proceso de transformación urbana y social, y su importancia para cada una de las familias.
Proyecto Nodos de desarrollo cultural
En el aà±o 2009 El puente_lab fue invitado a diseà±ar un nuevo espacio alterno, móvil e independiente del Centro de Desarrollo Cultural Moravia (CDCM), denominado Nodos de desarrollo cultural. El diseà±o se desarrolló basado en estructuras tipo contenedor y un bus en desuso, concebido como un puente earquitectura, y se propone como un acto artàstico colectivo para acompaà±ar el proceso de transformación urbana del barrio, a través de la creación de nuevos espacios dispuestos para toda la comunidad.
Translation:
Memory spaces Moravia
To generate dialogues and to develop new dynamic encounter between the inhabitants and the artists, as well as to open a reflection macro of the process of urban and social transformation, and its importance to each of the families, interventions were made in the public space of the neighborhood Moravia. Project performed in cooperation between the Center of Cultural Development Moravia (CDCM), the Secretariat of Citizen Culture of Medellàn, Comfenalco Antioquia, The puente_lab and Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, which brought the artists Katia Meneghini, Gayle Chong Kwan, Armin Mobasseri and Victor Muà±oz to make interventions in the public space of the neighborhood Moravia.
Project Nodes of cultural development
In the year 2009, puente_lab wasd to design a new space, alternate, mobile and independent of the Center of Cultural Development Moravia (CDCM), known as Nodes of cultural development. The design was developed based on structures containing type, and a bus into disuse, conceived as a bridge between art and architecture, and is proposed as an art collective to accompany the process of urban transformation in the neighborhood, through the creation of new spaces ready for the entire community.
www.elpuentelab.org:
El puente_lab es una plataforma de producción artàstica y cultural activa en Medellàn - Colombia, cuyo objetivo es desarrollar proyectos culturales en el ámbito local, creando puentes de comunicación con artistas y expertos a través una infraestructura operativa de cooperación internacional.
Los proyectos que desarrolla el puente_lab responden a necesidades especificas del contexto social donde se realizan, utilizando la creatividad artàstica como instrumento de activación de dinámicas culturales que inicieen y/o acompaà±en procesos de educación, comunicación y transformación urbana y social.
Translation:
The puente_lab is a platform for artistic and cultural production active in Medellin - Colombia, whose objective is to develop cultural projects at the local level, creating bridges of communication with artists and experts through an operational infrastructure of international cooperation.
The projects developed by the puente_lab respond to the specific needs of the social context in which they are performed, using the artistic creativity as a tool for activation of cultural dynamics that initiate, facilitate, and/or accompanying processes of education, communication and urban and social transformation.