Walking The City:


An Alternative
Approach
in Architectural
( Hafiz Amirrol
Institut Teknologi Bandung ) Pedagogy
Through
Collaborative
Networks

Arte-Polis 3 International Conference on Creative Collaboration and the Making of Place 2010
Walking = Architectural Education


Collection of Prior
Knowledge from Various Fields
Except Architecture

ARCHITECTURE +
An Indeterminate Act That
Encompass Humanistic Values
of the Physical and Emotional

ARCHITECTURAL
EDUCATION

Image source: CODA, 2007

City as Laboratory


Students

The City
Teachers
Architectural Education


ARCHITECTURE
SCHOOLS

Business of Promoter and Collector

Producing Great of New Ideas, Ambitions,
Architects Techniques, Agendas, Acts, etc.

ALTERNATIVE
Current
ARCHITECTURAL
System
PEDAGOGY
Architectural Education


1950s 2000s

ENDLESS ENQUIRIES

To Achieve an EVOLUTION in
Architectural Intelligence

EXPERIENCING THE CITY

Image source: aalog.net, 2009

The City


BANDUNG

Image source: www.mapsntrails.com, 2009

Ukiyo-e and Hiroshige’s Book


UKIYO-E = ‘FLOATING WORLD’

Depicting Social and Cultural

Transformations with Changing
Habitats and Transient Effects of Life

UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE

Hiroshige’s Sketch Book

Become a Major Inspiration for
The Cubist, Impressionist and
Post-Impressionist Movement

Image source: Jonathan Dawes, 2008

Situationist International


USING ARTS TO DEVELOPED EXPERIMENTAL FIELDS OF STUDIES

CITY AS PLAYGROUND
Chances of Happenings, Unexpected Events, Coincidences;
Representing the Needs and Desire
Of the City’s Inhabitants

Image source: Situationists International, various year

Psychogeographic Mapping


THE NAKED CITY

Systematic Observation of the City

Through Behavioral Mapping,
Diagrams, Notes and
Categorization of Activities
to Capture the City’s
Latent Qualities and
Dimension

Image source: Situationists-Art, Politics, Urbanism, 1996

Manhattan Transcripts


SPACE, EVENT, MOVEMENT

Montage Techniques from Film

Organization of Programs (Systems of Space,
Event and Movement)
Visual and Formal Representation Techniques

Image source: Bernard Tschumi, The Event-Cities, 1994

Michel de Certeau


PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Theory on the Productive and Consumptive

Activities in Daily Life through the Concepts of
Strategic and Tactics

Attempts to Outline the Way City’s Inhabitants

Unconsciously Navigate Everything (i.e. City
Street, Reading Text, Looking at Things, etc.)

Cross-referencing the Fields of History, Philosophy,

Psychoanalysis, Urbanism and Social Sciences
Psychogeographic Mapping


Image source: Brett Milligan, freeassociationdesign.wordpress.com, 2010

Psychogeographic Mapping


Image source: Brett Milligan, freeassociationdesign.wordpress.com, 2010

Psychogeographic Mapping


Image source: Hafiz Amirrol, 2008

The City


BANDUNG

Image source: www.mapsntrails.com, 2009

Inside Bandung


Image source: Hafiz Amirrol, 2009

Spatial Assemblage


SYSTEMATIC URBAN
DRIFTING TECHNIQUES

Architectural and Urbanism Study

Psychogeography
Social Research
Art and Media
Technology and Science
Politic and Economic Study
Behavioral Sciences

Imaginative Projection
of a Place

Image source: Hafiz Amirrol, 2009

Direct Urbanism + Collaborative Networks


WALKING THE CITY Direct Urbanism

TACTICAL STRATEGIC
INTERVENTION THINKING

Collaborative Networks
Gift from the Architect a.k.a City Wanderer


PRODUCING HESITATION IN THE

ROUTINES OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE

MOOD
NEW POTENTIALS
SURPRISES
RHYTHMS
PLEASURES
CONNECTIONS
PERCEPTION
NEW PATTERNS
SENSATION
MNEMONIC MEANINGS CHOICES
Walking Gear

 COLLABORATE AND
START WALKING

Arte-Polis 3 International Conference on Creative Collaboration and the Making of Place 2010