THE
PUBLIC
SCHOOL
NEW YORK

Architecture is a stressful profession. Long hours sitting in front of a computer contribute to stress, obesity, and related health problems. Every day at 4pm I would hear the cappuccino machine whirring in every firm where I've worked. This course proposes teaching designers to recognize the need for alternative methods of stress reduction such as meditation for themselves and their employees. How environment affects health and wellbeing will also be discussed.

Lisa Tannenbaum

www.lt-spa.com

A special Performa 09 discussion intended to probe questions of performance in relationship to architecture and the city, and to speculate on the future of Performa.

What is the ideal performance space for 21st century New York? This session will be dedicated to the discussion and speculation of what defines a performance space. It will examine past examples of performance spaces–whether deliberately designed or spontaneously invaded–and where they have succeeded and or failed. By utilizing the Public School platform, this session intends to bring together professionals in visual arts, performing arts and architecture to understand the complex issues involved in ensuring a successful performance. 

Public Sewing Circle.

Learn how to:

Make repairs

Alterations

Talk while you sew

Other sewing basics

 

NYC Clothing designer and other helpers will be on hand to instruct and discuss. Sewing machines and basic supplies will be available for use.

 

Walk-in. Bring your project. 10am - 4pm

The title of the class comes from Georges Perec's book Species of Spaces. Perec writes, "This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page." Over three sessions, this workshop will examine ways of describing space with words. To inspire new writings about spaces, readings will be assigned and serve as points of departure for group discussion and written output. 

The title of the class comes from Georges Perec's book Species of Spaces. Perec writes, "This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page." Over three sessions, this workshop will examine ways of describing space with words. To inspire new writings about spaces, readings will be assigned and serve as points of departure for group discussion and written output.

The second class will be devoted to The Realistic.

Session 2. Political exhibition as an attempt of society “to reconstitute itself within the forces of negation.” (Debord)

Reading:

“The Fine Art of Gentrification” by Rosalyn Deutsche and Cara Gendel Ryan.

http://www.abcnorio.org/about/history/fine_art.html

“The Real Estate Show” at ABC Rio (manifest and documentation)

http://www.abcnorio.org/about/history/history.html

The class examines modern political history of visual display/exhibitions. The artistic avant-garde radically altered the way we look at visual display by eliminating the separation between image and audience. But didn't it create the spectacle, simply giving the audience an illusion of participation?