Welcome by Prisca Arosio
Videos research on The Berlaymont, the European commission building in Brussels.
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Workshop: The house of politics - Brussels, Belgium - AA Visiting school 2017
Organizers: Pol Esteve (Architectural association School of architecture, AA visiting school), Bernard Dubois and with the collaboration of Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre Horta ULB, Brussels-Capital Region (be.brussels) and Eu commission. Roxane Enescu (ULB), Dennis Pohl (Universität der Künste Berlin), Marina Otero (Head of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam)
Team: Prisca Arosio, Nera jelaska, Alberto Paolini, Adnane ben Hssain, Giulia Barroero
2017
The House of Politics 2017 is a 10-day research workshop in collaboration with the European Commission. The program aim to use the movie format as an analytical tool to address the role of architecture in representing political communities. The result will be the production of short videos looking at the architecture of political organisations that go beyond the boundaries of the traditional nation-state.
An understanding of the increasing urgency for supranational political organisations is the starting point of the research. In particular, the EU study case has been chosen as a result of the evident need for a common European political project in a globalised world. The study is linked to the evident lack of identification of the European citizens with its institutions. An evolution of the EU political structures can only happen if the citizens feel that these institutions belong to them and that they have the agency to transform them. Architecture and Urban design have prominent role in visual culture and they are crucial to the edification of collective imagination. The main question is how architecture can be a strategical instrument in the EU’s visual identity within a contemporary context where digital technologies are crucial to the construction of public identity.
The 2017 edition focus on the EU commission, specially the Berlaymont building. After an urban and architectural analysis, each of the participants focus on one chosen aspect.
My focus is the Ritual of Arrival of Officials in the context of Nation States and European Commission. The research explores the architectural framework in relation to the media coverage for the Protocols of Arrival.
