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One of raumlabor’s motivations is to engender alternative practices within the city, fostered through cooperation and self-empowerment. They explore what remains of collective ideals and ways to overcome today’s harsh conditions of economic competition. Establishing temporary communities is one tool to creating a surrogate notion of a city beyond the capitalist logic of use-value and profitability.

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The Generator is an experimental building laboratory for instant, participatory building practices in public space. It consists of two components: hardware and software. The hardware is a workstation designed for mobility. A set of several tools, specially designed workbenches and templates are made available to participants to assemble different objects or furniture for the public domain. The generator project only uses recyclable materials like simple wood slats and plywood as building materials.

The software is a set of construction plans and instructions for modules or furniture, which are developed for easy assembly. The construction methods and designs are constantly tested and improved within the building laboratory. The participants can transform the modules accidentally or intentionally, in the process of learning by doing.

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In Brno raumlabor built a Public Stage together with Students from the University of Applied Science and Arts Dortmund and the Faculty of architecture BUT / Brno University of technology.

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foto (c) raumlaborberlin

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Brno, Czech Republic
30.5-3.6.2011
committed by The Brno House of Arts

Team raumlaborberlin: Francesco Apuzzo, Axel Timm with Cécile Oberkampf and Students from the University of Applied Science and Arts Dortmund (Judith Kückmann, Alicja Jelen, Christina Querfurt, Sandra Swienty, Mila Schachnowitsch, Yiyi Xiang, Stephanie Fähnrich, Lucie Drouin-Meslé, Peter Gerken, Friederike Sommer, Magdalena Semrau, Aleksandra Gnielka, Lena Wesholowski)

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Team Brno: Nicol Gale, Rasto Udžan and Students of the Faculty of architecture BUT / Brno University of technology (Ivana Lelkes, Marek Bulej, Kateřina Kunzová, Jiří Tomíček, Radek Pasterný, Aneta Janíčková, Nela Lišková, Petra Lukášová, Karel Adamec, Marta Bímová, Iveta Kolláriková, Aleš Javůrek, Dominika Petrů, Michael Gabriel, Adéla Varmužová, Klára Vejvodová, Roman Ženatý)

Partners: Czech-German Fund for the Future / Robert Bosch Stiftung / International Visegrad Fund / Embassy of Germany in Prague / Faculty of architecture BUT/Brno University of technology / DŘEVOPODNIK HAUSNER s.r.o. / Wombat, s.r.o. / The City of Brno / 4AM/Fórum pro architekturu a média /ARS PUBLICA

related projects: “THE GENERATOR // CANAPE SAINT NAZAIRE“, “THE GENERATOR // SEDIA VENEZIANA“, “Chaise Bordelaise“