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02/11/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Presentations, Works & Wasteland Twinning Ceremonies: Welcome to The Wasteland Twinning Network Forum 2012. A Retrospective now online. As the inaugural event of the ZK/U, the Wasteland Twinning Network Forum made use of of the clean slate offered by the venues exposed ... more »
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27/10/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Will Foster and Alex Head from Wasteland Twinning Network Berlin will present at ‘Urban Ecologies and its practices’ Conference that summarises the programme of the Museum of Art in Lodz URBAN ECOLOGIES.
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21/09/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
An exploration of urban wastelands and networked transdisciplinary practice The Forum brings together the international project partners of the Wasteland Twinning Network from Europe, Asia and Australia.
Hosted at the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, the Forum features presentations, guest speakers, critical debates, Twinning Ceremonies, wasteland interventions and workshops.
Visit Forum website at http://wasteland-twinning.net/forum
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27/07/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Documentation from The Fallow Games on the Köpi Brache in Berlin, Germany and The Nottingham Rounders Club, The Island in Nottingham, England.
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23/07/2012 - Alex Head - Berlin, Germany
Using a dredging device made from our beloved Heris fencing, builders mesh and scrapped tire chains, this initial experiment attempted to carry out small scale excavations of material from the bed of the river Spree. Predictions: Will Foster predicted that ... more »
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26/06/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Tune in your internet this saturday 30th of June 2012 Starting 2pm local time Germany - 1pm local time England Radio commentary coming to you live and at the same time from the games in Nottingham and Berlin. More info http://wasteland-twinning.net/games-broadcast/
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25/06/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
WASTE, SPORT and HABIT come together for THE FALLOW GAMES The Wasteland Twinning Network hosts a day of urban sporting and appropriation of the city’s wastelands. You are invited into our temporary playground where everyday activities will be transformed ... more »
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21/06/2012 - Alex Head - Berlin, Germany
As a way to present Wasteland Twinning I organised an afternoon workshop with students from Lawrence Technological University, Detroit, under the benevolent eye of their tutor Steve Coy. We bumped into Steve and Dorthe Coy on the Köpi Brache a few ... more »
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08/06/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Ferdiansyah Thajib from Yogyakarta is in Berlin, what better opportunity to test out the freshly made commentators’ stand in preparation for the Fallow Games. It was the first time Ferdiansyah had seen the Köpi Brache site, we carried the stand around like a royal sedan, setting it down in different places to get ... more »
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03/06/2012 - Alex Head - Berlin, Germany
On the 2nd June the Cuvry Brache space was used to host a day of active solidarity between the various users of the site in protest against its development and rent increases in the area. The forthcoming development also threatens ... more »
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28/05/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
A series of experiments using long distance communication. Questions and answers have been flying across the river Spree and through Skype with project partners The Islanders in Nottingham. Semaphore flags made from Heris fencing were provided for wasteland users with ... more »
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07/04/2012 - Alex Head - Berlin, Germany
Using a structured conversation I interviewed two young women on the wasteland who grew up in the local area. We discuss the potential development of the site as being symbolic of wider changes in the city. Their view of the ... more »
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31/03/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
I have been making more tools of the trade, my approach at the moment is to simply adapt found objects on the wasteland and leave them for people to use. In some cases I am playing with an already existing function; for example people have already used several Heras ... more »
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23/03/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
As the Islanders (Nottingham Collective) move towards planning the Wasteland Games to take place in the Summer http://wasteland-twinning.net/blog/trading-camouflage-for-camouflage/, I thought I would post some images of a game of Golf that took place on a cold winters day on the Köpi (Berlin) wasteland ... more »
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07/03/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
” He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn ... more »
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22/02/2012 - Alex Head - Berlin, Germany
Foreword: Leslie Fairisle arrived on the Köpenickerstr 36 Wasteland site in the middle of January. I first noticed him loitering about the edge of the river on a particularly chilly Sunday morning. As you will note from the following extracts ... more »
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09/01/2012 - Alex Head - Berlin, Germany
The Round Table Club was established in 1927 as a means for male British professionals and businessmen to network and share opportunities. Their motto of ‘adopt, adapt and improve’ is a direct quote from the then Prince of Wales, Edward ... more »
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09/01/2012 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Designs for tools and functional objects made from found materials on the wastelands. Heras Fencing objects: Spades: Related Posts For skaters and taggers
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20/12/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Selected documentation of peoples activities on the Köpi wasteland, Berlin throughout 2011.
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15/12/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Nottsterdam Sydyakarta Guwhaburg Glaslumpur Stocklin Related Posts International Round Table Club – Flags
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13/12/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Down in the distance by the river there is this man. He has been pacing back and forth for the past hour, throwing his body around in erratic turbulent motions. I’m assuming he’s drunk or on something. He looks out ... more »
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13/12/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Objects found on the Island and the Köpi Brache Documented By Will Foster and Rebecca Beinart. November 2011 The exclamation “Snap!” is occasionally used in conversation and has a similar meaning to “Me too!”, denoting a similar experience being had between ... more »
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19/09/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
In a last attempt to capture the end of the summer before autumn settles in, I decided to film some footage of the wasteland. At the same time I am playing with different formats, as each will undoubtedly bring with it ... more »
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08/08/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
This is a preview of a work in progress which Lars and myself have been documenting the wasteland site using a static microphone and camera. On the 3rd of September we documented the site from six corresponding points. We are ... more »
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27/07/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Further field recordings conducted today in the Berlin wasteland.
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26/07/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Today we made several more field recordings of the wasteland site, now working with better equipment it was possible to pick up an abundance of noise. This is a clip from a recording made down by the waterfront. A particular moment when a tour ... more »
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22/07/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Audio recording 1 – Walking the site
Duration 07’40″
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18/07/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
‘We say the map is different from the territory. But what is the territory? Operationally, somebody went out with a retina or a measuring stick and made representations which were then put on paper. What is on the paper map ... more »
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17/07/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Litter picker made from found materials on the wasteland.
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16/06/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Going further into mapping the wasteland I thought I would look at Google Maps, Google Earth, Bing etc to see if there are any diferences between how the space has been mapped documented. In Google earth I was surprised to find a ... more »
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15/06/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
After yet another day of witnessing the wasteland being used for a multiplicity of activities; a set for a film, a BBQ place, a vegetable garden, a thoroughfare (to name but a few). I set myself the simple task of drawing a map, ... more »
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14/06/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Built 4th – 5th June 2011 Adapted 11th – 12th June 2011 Related Posts Shelter
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06/06/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
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18/05/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
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19/04/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Spring time in Berlin, and the wasteland is busy. Today I encountered many people walking their dogs and sitting by the river Spree. At one point I approached two men, one of which was holding a spade. I presumed they where gardening as they stood on the garden ... more »
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11/04/2011 - Will Foster - Berlin, Germany
Late this afternoon I made a flag from found objects and erected it at the highest point of the wasteland. This quick territorial intervention relates to a past project ‘Duplex‘ where I introduced an arts community to the urban wasteland in Glasgow ... more »
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08/04/2011 - Lars Hayer - Berlin, Germany
The sites neighbourhood beeing partly under construction, a freshly white painted wall is now gaining attraction among the wasteland’s borders.
