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students and researchers from all over Europe travelling to other Countries to
explore and investigate the urban environment. Check-in Architecture is a Free
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Check-in Architecture: the project
Check-in Architecture is a participatory research project, which is patronized by
the International Union of Architects (UIA), the Venice Biennale and the Torino
2008 World Design Capital. We invite artists, architects, designers,
sociologists, media artists from the most prestigious universities to film pieces
of our cities. There is the opportunity for the participants to travel for free to
different European cities. They have to Check-in and to accomplish a mission:
they will be asked to produce a short documentary based on a script.
A cultural committee of curators and researchers coordinated by Mario Benini,
Andrea Lissoni, Luca Molinari and Luca Martinazzoli will identify the most
relevant themes and projects across the European cultural scene. The
research project challenges a generation with high access to low-cost flights
and multimedia tools to investigate their geographies. Check-in Architecture will
develop a crossmedia platform to connect students and scholars. 375 Documentaries - Choosing the missions.
On www.checkinarchitecture.com students will find a list of missions divided
according to the cities, with the available flights and cars. They will be departing
from: London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Milan, Turin, Naples,
Amsterdam and Basel.
On the website they will also get information about the missions associated
with each journey. The goal of each mission is to make a video (interview,
reportage) on the chosen theme which will be then edited in a short format
(1.30’ to 3’). Each mission will have to be accomplished by a team of two
people.
On the road
1500 flight tickets to the most important European and Italian cities will be
provided. Moreover, cars will be available to drive to places that the planes
can’t reach, or to move around cities. Also accommodations will be provided
when needed. Check-in Architecture will organize everything for the participants
by booking flights and accommodations, and setting the appointments with the
people to interview or the events to attend.
After the Mission
Once the mission is completed the participant will have to send the footage to
our office in Milan where it will be edited, post produced and uploaded on line
Contents distribution
All the videos will be uploaded on a special section of youtube.com and they
will be linked with maps on Google Earth and Google Map. On
checkinarchitecture.com there will be the complete listing of missions and
credits of all the participants.
The Blog
A Blog hosted by Blogger.com will be opened to give everyone the chance to
post ideas and suggestions for possible missions. It will also be a space for
people to collect thoughts on previous missions. It’s an open platform to
discuss and think about the main themes of the project.
Free Press
Two editions of a free press magazine will be released, at the beginning and at
the end of the project. The first issue will be a guide for the participants to the
project and its view, while the second issue will be a sum of all the work done
and the contents created.
Television Format
The best reportages and videos will become the protagonists of a tv series
(each show of 24 minutes): it’ll be a talk show that starting from architecture will
also discuss creativity, art, music and metropolitan lifestyle. The TV show will
be composed of four episodes to travel with irony and creativity through the
cultural references of the new generation, with guests, in-depth examinations
and chances of comparison.
The Check-in Points
Real Check-in points will be established during the Milan Design Week (Salone
del Mobile), Turin World Design Capital, XXIII UIA World Congress, and Cagliari
Festarch. In each point people will be able to candidate themselves for special
missions and collect the documents to leave for their destinations.
The Living Wall
Check-in Architecture reaches the core of the city through a form of
communication of great visibility and impact. In Duomo Square, Milan, there is
the first media-facade in Italy. The urban screen will be transmitting a special
project: “24 Hours Check-in People”, a video drawn from the 375
documentaries will describe in a dynamic way Check-in Architecture by
showing images recorded during the missions, and edited in a choral narration
that takes place in different European metropolis, in a period of 24 hours.
Check-in Architecture Exhibits
The first exhibit will take place during Transmitting Architecture 2008 in Turin
(29/6 to 4/7): Inedited, digital and interactive portrays of the European cities to
highlight the most interesting aspects of contemporary architecture and design.
A second and larger exhibition will be presented during the Venice Architecture
Biennale (September 2008). This will be the final step of the whole project and
will be the ideal stage to discuss the results of the long analysis process that
Check-in architecture represents.
Partners
Check-in Architecture is an ambitious and articulated project that can rely on
three important partners for its success.
The first one is the International Union of Architects. The second partner is
Google, the greatest information service system on the web, through the
following services: YouTube, Google Earth, Google Map and the blog platform
Blogger. The third one is Ryanair, one of the most successful low-cost vector. Metaflow
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