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Welcome To Claystation [Making Auckland]
Claystation [ Making Auckland ] took place at the Gus Fisher Gallery, The Kenneth Myers Centre, 74 Shortland St, Auckland, New Zealand on October 10, 11 and 13, 2008. This event was organised by Prof. Dory Reeves (Planning) and Kathy Waghorn (Architecture) from the School of Architecture and Planning at The University of Auckland, and Dr. Cris de Groot, the School of Design, Unitec.
What is claystation
The Claystation [ Making Auckland ] event is based on the successful Claystation art intervention developed in the UK. Involving different groups of people remodelling parts of their city, the event is designed in such as way as to foster collaborative discussions between individuals of any age, discipline and profession. The original version was developed by the Design Transformation Group in the UK of which Cris de Groot was a part. (http://www.claystation.org/)
Imagine a giant map spread out on a table and 120 kilogrammes of modelling clay. Participants identify the area / building / space they would like to remodel; describing where it is, what it is and why it needs remodelling.
Then participants are given up to 60 minutes to complete the remodelling. The event is captured using time-lapse cameras. The process is immediate, intense and playful, involving participants in a playful enterprise with serious purpose and working outside their immediate institutional setting.
Imagine a giant map spread out on a table and 120 kilogrammes of modelling clay. Participants identify the area / building / space they would like to remodel; describing where it is, what it is and why it needs remodelling.
Then participants are given up to 60 minutes to complete the remodelling. The event is captured using time-lapse cameras. The process is immediate, intense and playful, involving participants in a playful enterprise with serious purpose and working outside their immediate institutional setting.
Participation in Claystation [Making Auckland]
We invited groups from all over Auckland, and from many disciplines, to participate in Claystation [Making Auckland]. We had urban designers, strategists, planners, engineers, architects, students, lecturers, artists, children and many more. Participants, as groups or individuals, registered their booking online. On arrival they were asked to state their intentions on "An invitation to remake Auckland" (see below, click on image to enlarge it). Some groups had ambitious plans already formed and set about carrying them out, others negotiated their approach after viewing the state of the city as they found it, still others just picked up clay and began, letting their ideas emerge.
Why Claystation Now?
This year marks 50 years of planning education at The University of Auckland. New Zealand’s first professional programme in Planning commenced in 1958 as a one-year postgraduate Diploma in Planning. Since then over a 1000 students have graduated from the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and work all over the world making major contributions to planning. The Head of the School of Architecture and Planning is Professor Jenny Dixon. The Claystation [ Making Auckland ] event celebrates this 50 year anniversary by bringing people to the table to playfully engage with others in remodelling the city of Auckland.
Exhibition [ Mapping Auckland ]
The Claystation [ Making Auckland ] event also displayed projects by students in the architecture programme at The University of Auckland. These students used mapping processes to record the place of Auckland through various lenses.