#temporary spaces

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the ghost, hank pecker, and my PS5 (2024)

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Temporary Spaces

Martin Eberle

Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2001,  144 Pages, full colour, special cover, landscape format

euro 35,00

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Berlin's club scene is an international benchmark for improvised coolness and defined by its software: people, fashion, music, performance and drama. Spanning over a period of 10 years, Martin Eberle's stunning photographs are the first to document of these locations as they really are. By radically reducing them to their hardware, the empty space, juxtaposing run-down facades and lovingly crafted interiors (from improvised to hysterically glamorous) with architectural brutality, he perfectly captures their legendary, ramshackle hipness.

Filling and contrasting this vague unreal, static void are personal anecdotes by well-known promoters and club patrons who have already "collapsed in pretty much every corner". Encased in tactile white reptile print, Temporary Spaces simultaneously serves as the nostalgic documentation of a spectacular era, a personal photo album and an uneasy declaration of love for the transience and enthusiasm reverberating in the clean accuracy of these pictures.

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TONIGHT´S TODAY, TODAY´S TONIGHT

PART 2

“The noise comes with the territory"

The TONIGHT´S TODAY, TODAY´S TONIGHT series was shown at Echo Bücherin Berlin-Wedding during the Atonal Festival, 17.-23.8.2015. Stay tuned, more information and more drawings to come…

Drawings for sale - Ink and watercolor on paper, size ca. 21 x 15 cm / 170€

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Works by Aakash Nihalani show ways how tape can work as a temporary material to create perspective, create illusions, design typography/signage, make patterns. You can see more of his work here:  http://www.aakashnihalani.com

When does it become interesting? Or meaningful? Does it really tell a story, or is it more like a visually enjoyable one-liner? Could you use this material to design your story, transform the space, create an experience?

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Various examples of stairs, staircases. This will be a growing collection of images so come back to check it out every now and then!

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Factory beat is a experimental film about the deployment of the abandoned buildings and temporary spaces, directed by Essi Laurila.

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The Guardian:

"The pop-up designs changing the city landscape

Rowan Moore. 3 August 2013

From a floating cinema to a car park-cum-art gallery, some of Britain's most innovative (and people-friendly) design is seen in temporary projects in public spaces. Here's what's been popping up in London and beyond this summer

It is now part of the summer, as much as Glastonbury and Henley. Queues form outside rough-at-the-edges constructions, in (mostly) just-arriving areas of (mostly) London, in anticipation of some moment of delight, something that appeals to a love of play or fun or nature. We are invited to be kids or wander in a fragmentary Eden or consume succulent morsels of food or culture, in the middle of – usually – battered tracts of urban landscape.

These are pop-ups, temporary constructions intended to enliven public places. They are often the creations of young architects who, their talent and energy outrunning their employment opportunities, initiate, design and build these glimpses of what a better city – more open, more social, more pleasurable, more surprising – might be. Often pop-ups defy economic gravity, relying on unfeasibly large quantities of unpaid enthusiasm and persistence in getting stuff on the cheap. They have the scent of intense hard work and barely averted catastrophe, and the ghostly presence of health-and-safety officers only just placated."

Photo: Climbing-frame-as-art: the Serpentine pavilion by Sou Fujimoto is one of the best in the series. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian

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 SF Examiner:

"S.F.'s parklets program learns from failure, moves ahead

 Andrea Koskey. Aug 4, 2012

On Haight Street, two new parking spaces where a parklet was recently removed highlight the growing pains of a popular open-space program and what The City can learn from the failure.

In July, a parklet outside of Martin Macks bar in the Upper Haight was the first to be removed after nearly a year of controversy, and Planning Department officials running the program have learned from this incident and others that have cropped up around The City.

San Francisco pioneered parklets, starting in 2009 when then-Mayor Gavin Newsom asked the Department of Public Works, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and the Planning Department to come up with a "temporary urbanism program." The concept the agencies came up with allows businesses, nonprofits and property owners to apply for permits to convert adjacent on-street parking into open spaces that are open and accessible, though also removable."

Photo: Andrea Koskey