21 Mar 2019, 2:00-5:00pm
Venue: Shophouse #65, St 446 (east of Tuol Tum Poung Market)
Map: https://goo.gl/yvS6SS
Exhibition runs through 28 Mar
Venue: Shophouse #65, St 446 (east of Tuol Tum Poung Market)
Map: https://goo.gl/yvS6SS
Exhibition runs through 28 Mar
“Urban Seam: the Making of a Cambodian City”
by Primary Voice Project
by Primary Voice Project
With Urban Seam, Primary Voice introduces the everyday life of Cambodian factory workers and the global forces that shape their lives. Visitors will be engaged through the gestures and actions of workers via immersive workstations to become part of the daily life in an industrial economy.
Urban Seam will not simply show you Phnom Penh, you will be in it. Like the factory workers, you will understand the process of the city’s development through their work. While you hammer, glue and sew—repeating the same gestures as the factory workers—documentary video footage is activated on the screen in front of you. Thanks to a little coding and some imagination, you explore a new everyday in a rapidly growing city.
Urban Seam delves further by exploring the hidden social and urban connections that fuel one of the worlds fastest developing industrial economies. While.unpacking over 150 years of international history related to industrial development—beginning with the establishment of a French protectorate in 1853 and tracing evolution of international investment including essential U.S. Government aid funded national infrastructure—Primary Voice reveals the capital city of Cambodia and the lives of its citizens through an urban lens.
To continue this exploration, join us for the Urban Seam Workshop 23 March 2019.
*See “Urban Seam: The Workshop” for more info.
Urban Seam will not simply show you Phnom Penh, you will be in it. Like the factory workers, you will understand the process of the city’s development through their work. While you hammer, glue and sew—repeating the same gestures as the factory workers—documentary video footage is activated on the screen in front of you. Thanks to a little coding and some imagination, you explore a new everyday in a rapidly growing city.
Urban Seam delves further by exploring the hidden social and urban connections that fuel one of the worlds fastest developing industrial economies. While.unpacking over 150 years of international history related to industrial development—beginning with the establishment of a French protectorate in 1853 and tracing evolution of international investment including essential U.S. Government aid funded national infrastructure—Primary Voice reveals the capital city of Cambodia and the lives of its citizens through an urban lens.
To continue this exploration, join us for the Urban Seam Workshop 23 March 2019.
*See “Urban Seam: The Workshop” for more info.
About Primary Voice
Primary Voice is an interdisciplinary design studio that gives a voice to the invisible inhabitants in cities through interactive media. Started in 2014 by designer and urbanist Mikaela Kvan, the practice bears witness to radical urban transformations by documenting the lives of industrial workers as they move from their rural origins. In collaboration with filmmaker Sok Chan Rado, technologist Mathieu Eymeoud, and designer Jean-Alex Quach, Primary Voice presents here Urban Seam: the Making of a Cambodian City. As a pedagogical two-part experience consisting of an exhibition and accompanying workshop, Urban Seam uses interactive technology as a learning tool to introduce Cambodia’s multifaceted urban history. Previously exhibited in Paris in 2018, this is a rare opportunity for Primary Voice to return to its origins and delve deeper into an examination of Cambodia’s collective urbanization.
“Street Life Studies: Observations of the People and Places of Our Cities”
by Street Life Studies
by Street Life Studies
- Does ‘development’ always improve the quality of urban space for the users of these places?
- How can observation of, and direct engagement with, the physical, behavioral and systematic layers of an environment help in making more informed decisions about what these places might become?
- How can the ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ expressions of urbanism play a role in creating public places acutely sensitive to the needs of the people who use them?
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Street Life Studies is a course that brings together students from Sydney and Phnom Penh and a range of design disciplines. They use field-based observation to investigate these questions surrounding people-focused placemaking. Through a series of exercises carried out in the street, the course asks students to analyse two very different urban environments, Lakemba in Sydney and Khan Daun Penh in Phnom Penh. These places hold in common two characteristics: expression of streetlife and current/imminent ‘developmental’ change. Phnom Penh streets tend to be a more overt expression of diverse urban dwellers appropriating the street to meet direct needs, with much of daily life played out in the public domain. In Sydney, sidewalk morphology is similar however this kind of mixed informal activity
is less apparent, with usage regulated, and centered upon vehicular and pedestrian circulation. Students work in transcultural and interdisciplinary groups to engage with the spaces, people and systems of the street. They use hand drawing and simple data collection to observe and document current patterns of use. From this,opportunities and constraints for the users of the street are identified. Students then use this to develop an urban brief and intervention; small, scalable propositions with the overall aim of fostering vital, people-centred public spaces. |
About Street Life Studies
Street Life Studies is a summer course that has run annually, since 2015, by architects and educators Eva Lloyd, Giacomo Butte and Richard Briggs. The course is a summer elective at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Faculty of Built Environment, run in collaboration with the Royal University of Fine Art, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Phnom Penh. Eva, Giacomo and Richard have collective experience based in Cambodia and the Asia Pacific region. The course is a means of exploring themes that have emerged from their community design work. It exposes students to the complex urban conditions experienced by city-dwellers living in the flux of development and the innovative ‘bottom-up’ solutions that come from the users of these places. Students begin to understand the role of the designer in this context. Eva Lloyd spent several years as an architect and educator in Cambodia and the surrounding region. She is currently a Lecturer at UNSW Built Environment in Sydney and the course convenor of Street Life
Studies.Giacomo Butte has worked as an architect and educator in Asia for over ten years.He is currently based in the UK, completing a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering. Richard Briggs has fifteen years’ experience in architecture,community development and art in Australia and the Asia Pacific region and currently runs a design studio in Sydney.
www.streetlifestudies.wordpress.com
Studies.Giacomo Butte has worked as an architect and educator in Asia for over ten years.He is currently based in the UK, completing a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering. Richard Briggs has fifteen years’ experience in architecture,community development and art in Australia and the Asia Pacific region and currently runs a design studio in Sydney.
www.streetlifestudies.wordpress.com
