exercise books, Bęc Zmiana Foundation, 2014

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In four exercise books based on an original workshop programme, architects from the Warsaw-based design group CENTRALA seek notations for ephemeral phenomena. They encourage people to go out into the field: to immerse themselves in the landscape and observe it carefully.

Through a set of original tasks and a reconstruction of selected historical exercises (by Bruno Munari, Frei Otto, Mieczyslaw Twarowski, among others), they show how to turn collected observations into design tools. The results are dynamic models – original instruments for further experimentation.

The exercise books are the result of workshops organised as part of the project Modelling the City. The Dynamics of Diverse Space, co-financed by the City of Warsaw.

Authors: Małgorzata Kuciewicz, Simone De Iacobis / CENTRALA

Editing: Aleksandra Kędziorek

Graphic design: Zofka Kofta

Publisher: Bęc Zmiana Foundation