What a Mess is part of a series of traveling walkshops during which participants are invited to 3D scan elements of their urban fabric they wished to digitally archive.
Equipped with an iPad with LiDAR scanning capabilities, during the two hours experience, participants are sent on a 3D scanning scavenger hunt, in which they must work together to explore how a given theme is reflected in a neighbourhood. Limited to five captures, the participants have to negotiate what to capture and how their captures connect to the given theme.
For the final part of the workshop, the final aggregate is created together, a peculiar formation of 3D scans put together using 3D modeling software on the spot and experiences using augmented reality.
Borrowing vocabulary and archiving practices from the world of geology and archeology, each of the scans resulting from the workshop and the generated aggregate are then stored for further analysis in the archive at whatamess.city.
What a MessHugo Pilate (FR/US), Pedro Gil Farias (PT/NL)
Workshop time and place:
Thursday, 26.10.2023., 14:00 – 16:00 h, Museum of Contemporary Art (Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Zagreb)
Hugo Pilate (FR/US)
Hugo Pilate is a Franco-American designer specialized in the creation of collaborative experiences with a fascination for the past, present, and future of city-making.
Pedro Gil Farias (PT/NL)
Pedro Gil Farias is a Portuguese multidisciplinary researcher, artist and designer currently based in Rotterdam. His practice draws on participatory and critical approaches to design, design ethnography, creative subversion and DIY/amateurism, with a focus in using both analogue and digital media to explore practices of commoning, creative appropriation and participation in cities and the public space.
